A+O’s Best Bets 10 must see exhibitions in Venice 2013
Simon Denny Analogue Broadcasting Hardware Compression (2012)
Mark Manders Room with Broken Sentence
Jeremy Deller English Magic
Simryn Gill Here Art Grows on Trees
Walter De Maria Apollo’s Ecstasy (1990)
Netherlands Pavilion* Biennale Giardini
Great Britain Pavilion Biennale Giardini
Australian Pavilion Biennale Giardini
Encyclopedic Palace Biennale Arsenale
Manders installation combines deconstructed furniture and sectioned visages to create enigmatic pastoral interiors. A contemplative antidote to many of the more frenetic displays.
English Magic is a witty accumulation of video, large scale painting, folk art and music. Room by room Deller proposes David Bowie, William Morris, Brass Bands, recent oligarchs and birds of prey in flight as ingredients of contemporary myth and folklore.
Multi-media artist Gill charts the massive landscape intervention caused by large-scale mining in the outback to dramatic effect by combining aerial photography with the found detritus at tiny scale – both bird and bug- eye perspectives.
20 solid bronze rods from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. An enormous and minimal presentation of metres long gleaming bronze rods in a giant hangar space of the Arsenale.
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www.venicebiennale.nl * Designed by architect Gerrit Rietveld in 1953.
Bill Culbert Front Door Out Back, 2013
Francis Upritchard Save Yourself, 2009
Encyclopedic Palace Biennale Arsenale Denny’s recording of the final resting place of obsolete analogue equipment makes for a quirky requiem.
et al. the fundamental practice, 2005
Judy Millar Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, 2009
Michael Parekowhai On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, 2011
Jacqueline Fraser A Demure Portrait of the Artist Strip Searched, 2001
Peter Robinson Divine Comedy, 2001
Michael Stevenson This is the Trekka, 2003