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Sometimes there are no people attending the Bienna

Sometimes there are no people attending the Biennale, and clogging the vaporetti and narrow streets and straits. In an alternate universe. #biennale #venezia #venice #art #contemporaryart #linea1 #future #now #alternateuniverse

Bunny cries. Why not? #bunny #bun # bao #whynot

Bunny cries. Why not? #bunny #bun # bao #whynot

Total eclipse of the cigarettes. Another hommage t

Total eclipse of the cigarettes. Another hommage to Malevich, I suppose. #cigar #cigarettes #tschick #eclipse #totaleclipse #totaleclipseoftheheart

/// MTU 038- from the series MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN (

/// MTU 038- from the series MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN (1999-2024) street photography with too much meaning. High hopes and portents in challenging times. What AI is bad at: creating meaning…we choose. #heck #menetekelupharsin #portent #writingsonthewall #art #streetart #noai #perception #decision #choice #tropicofchoice #sense #sensitivity #sensibility #ecosystem #saldi #saldi #offer #denial

Whut?! #exclamation #unknown #grapevine #curiosity

Whut?! #exclamation #unknown #grapevine #curiosity

/// MTU 037- from the series MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN (

/// MTU 037- from the series MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN (1999-2024) street photography with too much meaning. High hopes and portents in challenging times. What AI is bad at: creating meaning…we choose. #heck #menetekelupharsin #portent #writingsonthewall #art #streetart #noai #perception #decision #choice #tropicofchoice #sense #sensitivity #sensibility #ecosystem #saldi #saldi #offer #denial

Ode to Malewich. Breakfast table. Dish. #malewitsc

Ode to Malewich. Breakfast table. Dish. #malewitsch #circle #wurst #toast #dish #fineart #modernart #finewurst #KazimirSeverinovichMalevich

You only live once, born, breathing, dancing and t

You only live once, born, breathing, dancing and then…who knows. Important is, keep dancing. Breathing, born, etc comes with societal help, but you have to dance/show up by yourself. Main photos by magnificent Yang. #venezia #feast #diversity #50shades #colours #fun #breathe #venice

Celebration day, also in the Gallerie dell‘Accad

Celebration day, also in the Gallerie dell‘Accademia. A mix of classical Venetian old masters (Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Giorgione, Longhi etc.) and modern Masters like Klee, Matisse, Picasso. Affinta Elletive/Elective Affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften emerge, as Goethe was calling it. This is the opening day of the exhibition in conjunction with modern artists feom zhe Sammlung Berggruen of the same title. Somewhere else in town, later in the evening, something like that was happening as well, with a mix of interesting and colourful people… #affinitaelettive #wahlverwandtschaften #electiveaffinities #goethe #galleriedellaccademia #venezia #venice #reigen

Ana, stop war! Ana has to stop the war! Irgendana!

Ana, stop war! Ana has to stop the war! Irgendana! #stopwar #nowar #venezia #venice

Venice with the ferry, best ride. Cannot get enoug

Venice with the ferry, best ride. Cannot get enough. #ferry #ride #lagoon #venezia #mare #boat #againasunset

Mare. Lagoon. Water is life. #water #sea #lagoon #

Mare. Lagoon. Water is life. #water #sea #lagoon #venezia

A hectic active attack of hoards of runners with n

A hectic active attack of hoards of runners with numbers, headlights and maps in Venice. Felt like a an artistic performance, was none. #running #venice #venezia #night #map #treasurehunt

Fog. Nebbia. Things exist, they come and go - and

Fog. Nebbia. Things exist, they come and go - and cease to exist. At least visually. Fog is the filter for our vanities and prejudices. #pride #predjudice #visibility #venice #venezia #nebbia #fog #carpenter

We Art Open Worldwide Prize 2024 - in Venice in th

We Art Open Worldwide Prize 2024 - in Venice in the fog. As media partner notitlegallery had us, art-frame, and we could select our favourite video artwork from the submissions. It helped that I was already called in the Jury to select the Young artists prize…where Srotowini Sinha did stick out. Congratulations to them and a well visited opening & ceremony… #venezia #venice #contemporaryart #weartopenworldwide #crea #fog #videoart #notitlegallery #artframemagazine

Mardi Gras / Martedi Grasso / Faschingsdienstag in

Mardi Gras / Martedi Grasso / Faschingsdienstag in Venice / Venezia / Venedig. It‘s a crisis of entertainment, if grown up people do not have any idea anymore how to have fun, other than to pose and to pose for selfies. Is Carnevale instagrammable, yes, is the fun force with us, I guess not. Once this city was the epicenter of fun and debauchery in Europe - today we are a bit lukewarm, crisis ridden, small screen encapsulators. We need a concept to change that here, because the municipality is one barrier, which seems to protect Venezia a tad too much - but only commerce will not make it interesting again (also for the youth)… #debauchery #costumes #darthvader #venezia #martedigrasso #venedig #fun #nofun #entertainmentcrisis

Venice in Carneval…less busy than expected, off

Venice in Carneval…less busy than expected, off course off the beaten paths and main events. Once it was allowed to wear a (uselful, conceiling) mask for 6 months, now we have mere 2 weeks of „fun“. Well, its not the 1700s anymore… #1700 #carneval #venice #mestre #carnevale #venezIa #dark #mood

PAFF! International Comic Art Museum in Pordenone

PAFF! International Comic Art Museum in Pordenone (why exactly there? and why international, if there are almost no texts in English? ;) ) with a very nice size, a great historic Japanese Comic/Manga artist personal show (Kamimuro Kazuo), a big bow to the „Italian Alan Moore“, comic writer Alfredo Castelli and a comprehensive permanent archive of comic art history. The little one was perplexed and delighted. Me, too. #comics #comicstrip #paff #comicart #italy

PROMETEO - a tragedy of listening, one of only 4 e

PROMETEO - a tragedy of listening, one of only 4 evenings the Biennale has set up for celebrating this famous work of art („opera“ in the classic sense) as a collaboration of 4 famous people with the music of Italian avant-garde composer of classical music Luigi Nono. Not for me tragical, more meditative and relaxing. That kind of music Schönberg made popular (popular is a strong word) is now canon in the production of arthouse movies - at a certain time it was considered outrageous. A rare occasion, at the original place, the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice (supposedly the burial place of Marco Polo, now harbouring the Ocean Space) and a real treat for experiencing complex experimental music partly in the way it was intended to - this time focussing on the music, not on the visual parts or the specially built auditorium made of wood, which is now in a museum.

In 1984 PROMETEO, took place in the same church but within a Musical Space shaped like a ship and made out of laminated wood like used for instruments and ship building. The project was conceived including innovative stage building by Italian architect Renzo Piano (*1937) who got world famous with the Centre Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers) as was an audiovisual collaboration for the composition of Luigi Nono‘s (1924-1990) groundbreaking „PROMETEO“ and sported paintings and scenography by Venetian painter Emilio Vedova (1919-2006) and texts by the Venetian philosopher Massimo Cacciari.

He took texts from various authors including Walter Benjamin, Aeschylus and other Greek classics. It is not a real opera in the traditional sense: in fact there is no stage representation. It can be considered a sort of „sonic action“ in which the drama is staged by the same musical plot on which the work is built (hence the subtitle Tragedy of listening) and the positioning of the orchestra in space around and above the audience.

Music, “the most immaterial architecture that exists”…

Fabulous, in 2024 people sitting for 2,5h listening to difficult music, who would have not the patience of 30sec on Tik Tok… ;)

January is the calmest month in Venice. So happy f

January is the calmest month in Venice. So happy for nobody to be here to reenact „Don‘t look Now“, the horror classic by Roeg from 1973. #nicolasroeg #donaldsutherland #venezia #venice #january #canalgrande #streetphotography #balloon #horror #joy #nobody #almost

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