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The next morning we headed to the Giardini and to Phyllida Barlow's presentation in the British Pavilion.
Jenni Lomax also had the same idea!
Phyllida managed to complete this ambitious work one month ahead of the opening.
There was something intriguing in the Israeli Pavilion - Gal Weinstein with the help of Tami Katz Freiman has made the ‘sun stand still’.
The German Pavilion stood out - Anne Imhof's performance and installation is so brilliant and so timely.
The performance and sculptural architectural props are based on ‘Faust’ - in her version a cast of pale nihilistic looking dancers who could have stepped out of a 90s Calvin Klein campaign pose and menace one another beneath the buildings raised glass floor in a recreation of the underworld.
She stirred up so many emotions especially in the heart of the Germans. I was shocked and intrigued at the same time.
In the International Pavilion curated by Christine Macel, we were happy to be reunited with the work of Ciprian Muresan who had copied all the images from single books into individual art works.
We were very excited to meet with McArthur Binion - he is a remarkable man. He had used old his address books to create these works.
The pavilion was a hive of activity and all sorts of arts and crafts on view - almost like a sophisticated old fashioned town hall jumble sale. Of course there was much more than meets the eye but everything was low key and quiet which made for a lovely undulating pace of experience.
