This is a crop and detail of the butterfly abstract that I am currently working on.
This is a crop and detail of the butterfly abstract that I am currently working on.
Ryan Gander from London, England produced the piece pictured above entitled Out of Sight (All on my own).  This piece is located in the Arsenale at Venice Biennial Art 2011.  The figures are reproductions of a Degas ballerina and are juxtaposed (along with the blue cubes and white plinths) to appear as mirror images.
One artist whose work caught my eye in the Arsenal at ILLUMInations, the Venice Biennale 2011, was German artist Annette Kelm.
Kelm showed several series of photographs. Â The particular one that interested me was entitled Driftwood Lamp, a series of six images of a drift wood lamp on a white background.
I had the chance to visit the 54th Venice Biennale in September 2011 during my artist residency in Italy. Â There are two main locations for the show along with numerous artists sprinkled throughout the city. Â In the Giardini, I found different pavilions that each contained an individual or grou...