ILLUMInations: 2011 La Binennale di Venezia

When I told people I was going to Venice in June, a number of people instantly said I should go to the Biennale. It’s an international Art Exhibition that happens every two years and it takes over the city. You’ll walk down a side street and a sign directing you to a participating country’s exhibit appears. We go to Arsenale, only one section of the two main exhibits on Sunday. It is so diverse and in turns, it is amazing and WTF (as in What the F**k is that doing here and why is it art).

Instead of me explaining each art work and what I think of them, I’ll do it in pictures with captions. Not of everything mind you, but enough for you to get a flavour of what we saw and you can let me know what you think. Bice Curigar, currator of this years Biennale which he’s titled ILLUMInations, says this of the festival: “The endevour was to establish a rhythm, like poetry; but also to create unexpected encounters between works and artists from different cultural backgrounds working with different criteria. We are in fact convinced thst the world of art is not just a colony of individuals acting alone: it is above all a communion of intents.”

[caption id=”attachment_1361” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Ann interacting with the exhibit”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1363” align=”aligncenter” width=”168” caption=”Mirror reflections”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1364” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”People looking at pictures of people”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1365” align=”aligncenter” width=”168” caption=”Two toilets and a light. Yep, that’s right.”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1371” align=”aligncenter” width=”168” caption=”Melting statues”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1374” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”A brief moment of The Clock”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1376” align=”aligncenter” width=”168” caption=”An alternate universe Buzz Lightyear”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1381” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Chemical plant or art?”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1383” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”A bucket of teeth”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1387” align=”aligncenter” width=”168” caption=”A wall made entirely of Ukrainian Easter Eggs”][/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_1384” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”It says what it is on the tin”][/caption]