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So happy to see Samara Golden’s incredible installation ‘The Flat Side Of The Knife,’ which she describes as a sixth dimension, created using physical and illusionary spaces. It was a remarkable feat of skill and imagination. Much like her amazing ‘Bad Brains’ installation currently on show at Zabludowicz Collection.
Simon Denny’s exhibition ‘The Innovators Dilemma’ was full to the brim and looking like a tradeshow. It’s his first significant solo show in the U.S. and so included a number of his recent works. I particularly liked ALL YOU NEED IS...DATA? a project created in 2012 around the Munich Digital Life Design conference.
Spotted our Ed Fornieles as one of the participants. Wish I had been there back in 2012.
Michael E. Smith’s installation at the Sculpture Centre was complex and brilliant and I was immediately drawn to a number of weird and wonderful sculptures. One video with the repetitive noise of a scientific industrial counting machine seemed like old found footage from the 60s or 70s. There was even a sculpture of a scan of two creepy babies with a bottle on top. All so hard to explain!
On Saturday morning we gave a great brunch for DAATA Editions. The infamous Jerry Saltz passed by to present me with the most beautiful bouquet of flowers.
DAATA artists were very happy; Matt Copson, Chloe Wise, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata and Helen Benigson.
David Gryn, Loreta Lamargese and Chloe Wise gave their final conclusions on the launch of DAATA Editions.
Before leaving the city we just had time to see Hito Steyerl’s works. She had presented a suite of eight works from 2004 and included a commission addressing a variety of political issues.
On the way out we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and checked out the amazing Jeppe Hein social benches.
Then it was a quick visit back to Venice for a bit of a rest and to finally see everything without the crowds. This strange sculpture by Sarah Lucas, ‘Scream Daddio’ was perverse and humorous at the same time.
The rain was cascading down but it did not stop me or the visitors.
The installation ‘Canadassimo’ by BGL for the Canadian Pavilion was a weird and rather boring Quebec grocery shop that could easily confuse anyone trying to make sense of it. With the objects blurred but focused in photography I really wasn’t sure what it was all about.
Even in the back room where they were referencing an artist’s studio, didn’t really come together.
Now I am left with lovely memories of Venice. Ending it with an adventure to a glamorous palace on the Grand Canal and sharing a bed with Manuela and Iwan Wirth, Alma Zevi, Jenni Lomax and Elizabeth Murdoch.
