Ricky Swallow from Australia-pieces meticulously done in wood, presenting ideas upon death, movement, time, etc.

The Venice Bienniale-International Art Exhibition

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September 17th 2005
The 51st Venice Bienniale-International Art Exhibition Steps from my apartment. A 10 minute walk, in fact, to the gardens near St.Elena. During the year, the architectural structures called pavilions, built by various countries decades ago to host their artists every year here in the summer months of the Bienniale, are empty. But these months this very famous international art exhibition attr ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more