Ciao amore

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Well, it has been a great trip but it's time to go home.

Just one final stop at Il Papiro to get a souvenir. After all I belong to that species, the tourist, you know.

There, now we're ready to go. This is the last post of  the Venice Special , and I hope you really enjoyed it.

I still have a couple of surprises that I'm leaving for later though! See you soon.

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Snapshots from the Arsenale

 
 
 
 

I really liked this, canvas, ribbon, rubber, thread...

photo from universes in univers

I was very impressed by the  the work of Fernando Prats showed at the  Chilean  pavilion. His project is called "Big South".  I watched a video showing his epic search for "marks" by rubbing large sheets of paper against  destroyed houses covered in ashes, streets and objects left behind after the eruption of the Chaitén vulcano and the 2009 earthquake in Chile. I've seen  later that this is called "frottage", and that he uses techniques such as "smoke on paper", "rubble on paper"...

Fernando at work while life goes on

The 2011 Italian pavilion at the Arsenale

If you find yourself in Venice while the art biennale going on, you'll soon become familiar with these two terms: Arsenale and Giardini, the two main venues for exhibitions. The national pavilions are at the Giardini (gardens). The Arsenale is made up of the  buildings that used to be the fortified shipyards at those times when Venice was a large commercial power in the Mediterranean sea back in the XV /XVI centuries. It's a huge, historical, quiet and amazing place right by the canals!
This year the Italian pavilion at the Arsenale had a section showing a large number of paintings in all the styles you can possibly imagine. I would like to show you some of these. This is the work of Michaelangelo's heirs and grand grand grand... children.

Postcard from Venice

 

The Duke's Palace

advertising Verona's opera festival

St Mark's façade



St Mark's ceiling

view from the bridge of sighs

the bridge of sighs, inside  

walls decorated with grotesque inside the Correr museum

the very famous Murano

Sunset in my favourite sestiere

The bookshop with a gondola inside, and the owner will tell you "I'm your Casanova" when you leave...

near the Rialto Bridge, intense concentration

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