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La Biennale: Making Worlds
September 18, 2009
“It had to be you; I wandered around and finally found the somebody who could make me be true and could make me be blue, and even be glad just to be sad thinking of you.” - Gus Kahn
Fellow frequent travelers easily understand having one or two favorite things to do while on the plane. I have fallen out of my affair with listening to my iPod—noise block, huge headphones. After a few years apart, I recently rediscovered the simple beauty of reading while traveling. This old fashion love affair is easy to return to, as a good old soul mate. On my recent visit to Venice a dear friend handed me the recently UK-published book “Nocturnes” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I loved it for Ishiguro’s consistent minimal warmth within the unfolding stories. His chapters did not put me to rest, nor were they simply a distraction; I felt as if diving into a beautiful journey.
Coincidentally, the first story, “Crooner,” is set in Venice. I appreciate Venice as the most romantic city in the world; I can never leave out the background music playing at the Piazza San Marco. I forgive every annoying tourist only at this moment while walking through with all races admiring the site and listening to music played by various bands presented by various cafés around the piazza. I remember one evening after dinner while walking through the piazza alone hearing one of my favorite tunes being played, “It Had to be You.” That was magical, even walking alone.
Venice is an old, Italian city people should favor to visit at least once in their lives. I highly agree and recommend that one should visit and experience the mystical beauties of Venice. The city is close to my heart for being most Oriental, as well as being highly conceptual by hosting one of my favorite inspiring art and architecture events, La Biennale. Attending La Biennale for me is like, in comparison to most American children waking up on Christmas morning to open gifts.
Like every visit to La Biennale, I was excited before and during the event, and walked away with inspiring memories. Most of all, I came home with a bag full of refueled awareness for global art.
The following two-part series features images taken from my attendance to La Biennale 2009, “Making Worlds.” For this week’s post, view the works from Il Giardino, and next week see images from the Arsenal. I hope you’ll enjoy the photos.
Posted by D.B. Kim on September 18, 2009 |
Comments (2)
September 29, 2012
In response to:
La Biennale: Making WorldsNicoly commented:
Hello,I am a master of auhtiteccrre student and I was in Venice yesterday. I crossed the bridge and even for me, a 25 year old healthy and fit man, the steps were amazingly unconfortable.The ultimate problem with this bridge to me is that it could very simply have been done without steps: if you pay attention to the lower part of it you can see that the skeleton actually has a toll of maybe two to three meters in the heightness of the bridge, so if its aim were to create the tray of the bridge as lower as he could the bridge could almos seem horizontal.What Calatrava obviously did was to selfishly as somebody said here before put his design before the inhabitants periodAnd I agree with the guy that said that if you have this then you neither have auhtiteccrre nor design. It is an action of the same degree as to make all the bridges in Venice flat and stop the boats from navigating in the canals.And I saw an old man in the middle of Venice in a wheelchair being help to cross the bridges only with the assistance of his, also old, wife. Should they not have one less bridge to cross as an obstacle? And what about people who want to go to the train station?A healthy person may spend a nice time in Venice using all the bridges but to go to the train station with the luggage at the end of their staying they will have one more BIG bridge to cross.Either in wheelchair or not it would be much simpler without the steps, and like I said before, it could have been easily done.
September 22, 2009
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La Biennale: Making WorldsThomas Stallman commented:
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