Venice – the Giadinni

We worked out a new routine this year rather than dashing off to the Giardini in the morning and getting very hungry about half way round and getting grumpy (ok that’s me). We did some shopping saw a couple of collateral events or other pavilions in the morning have a lovely lunch of seafood bought fresh from the market and then hop on the vaporetto and head to the Giardini for an afternoon of art. For the first time we made it round all the pavilions and the large exhibition, without me going into melt down!

Here are a few of my favourite works from the Giardini

Pamela Rosenkranz at the Swiss Pavilion. The water is apparently a generic skin colour

The Russian Pavilion by Irina Nakhova we were watching people watching us

The Russian Pavilion again by Irina Nakhova, his eyes moved

The Japanese Pavilion by Chiharu Shiota, one of my favourites, it was quite breathtaking.

Another shot of Chiharu Shiota’s installation in the Japan pavilion

Sarah Lucas in the British Pavilion, I’m normally a fan of Sarah but his felt very thin to me, compared to some of the other pavilions.

Another piece by Sarah Lucas

Moving trees in the French Pavilion by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

Marco Maggi in the Uruguay Pavilion. This was amazing a totally white room with tiny white paper cuts all over the walls, so detailed and very different from some of the larger brasher installations