We were at Venice Biennale and thought of writing about what we think to be the pavilions with the impressive exhibitions, the collateral events and what’s happening at Arsenale. Today, four pavilions: Belgium, Greece, Canada, Serbia. What we hope is that you will have the chance to get there, since there are some artists that are worth seeing and that will surely stick with you.

The Belgium pavilion is one of those that can’t be forgotten. You enter in the large space lightened by a soft light and you see on the ground a wounded tree. Its texture looks almost like flesh and bones. It looks as if someone came and tried to heal it. The artist, Berlinde de Bruyckere, is famous for her sculptures that treat subjects such as death. The entire setting is so powerful and the atmosphere is gloomy.

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Canada is represented by Shary Boyle, and it was, probably, one of the most expected exhibitions. She works in different media and the audience was curious about her video and sculptures. For this Biennale she created some beautiful sculptures and a projection was running, thus giving the works even more layers. Music for Silence is the name of the exhibition and you might want to be alone in the space, because of the emotional setting. The space looks a little crowded, thus making you feel that anyway you turn you are surrounded by sculptures.

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Greece is represented by Stefanos Tsivopoulos, and the project is called History Zero. What is interesting in his approach is the fact that the artist takes the painful problem of money and austerity in Greece and turns it into a positive thing. The film has three parts: in the first one a hobo finds in a garbage bin a bouquet of flowers made out of money and runs away, leaving behind everything he had found before, in the second a very stylish artist looking for inspiration on the street and taking pictures of pretty much anything finds this hobo’s belongings and in the third part there is a wealthy old woman that bought a work by this artist and who throws away a bouquet of money she herself has created. History Zero is like a starting point in the way money should be perceived. It has that optimist and positive touch, where things are organic and are continually changing, and where people’s needs are complementary.

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And because Venice Biennale is work and fun, here is the project of the pavilion of Serbia, Nothing in Between Us, represented by artists Vladimir Perić and Miloš Tomić. You know how they say that an artist sees things where other people don’t? It’s exactly the same here, since this project puts into light the playful part of art as well as the power to observe things. One of the works is 3d Wallpaper for Children’s Room, where 247 toys are pun on the wall to for a beautifully coloured wallpaper. Photo Safari concentrates on the photographer and on the object used in order to create a piece of art. In this case, art is made out of the bags that protect the camera, with little intervention. What’s even more intriguing and enjoyable is the fact that they create animal figures, therefore an object which has a functional use becomes, now, a piece of art.

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