Venice Art Day 5

 Venice Art Day 5

Art shows can be hit or miss. THB, SC and DB did not always agree, yet consistently we did agree on whether a show was a big muddle. Kapoor fit right into the "muddle" category.

Did a pickpocket steal a button off of THB's shirt

This nun, wearing a large white mask, looked like the Invisible Woman wearing a disguise or the Bogart film where he gets face surgery to keep the Feds off his track

Three different families on the vaporetto had kids in their Sunday finest (it was Friday)

Cross the canal from Kapoor's recently purchased mansion was a fish market

THB hated these large blobby sculptures, huge room fillers

Remodeling work is in prgress

Plenty of work to be done

The best rationale THB can come up: Kapoor is making a link between the huge blobby things and the work required to remodel an old "palace" 

making art or repairing the building?

Now for some totally different Kapoor work

"small" work? THB still detests it

From the front this black object is totally flat 

Not really, it is 3 dimensional trapezoidal pyramid

Flat circle from front, cone from side

THB is giving the followers plenty of chances to find something redeeming ... too many?

Best fashion THB saw at Kapoor 

Number one branded t-shirt: THB's employer of 24 years 

Fondazione Prada is putting on Brain Anatomy 101 primer, with plenty of video lectures, some of which are fiction. THB got bored before SC and  DB, which means for THB he is not even going to audit the class

Much more interesting to THB: Peroni on tap

Spaghetti with polpetta, pretty good; one pasta, one pizza, one salad, one drink, $55

In the middle of Venice there is an outboard motor shop

THB had been here on a prior trip: it is $2/person to cross the canal in a gondola water taxi...a bargain is a tour in a gondola is around $80 and a much longer (duller, more romantic) ride

This bird is THB's new best friend, has been following ever since the sandwich snatch

Murillo left small blank canvases at many schools for 12-16 year olds - maybe as young as 10, THB can't remember now - for 6 months, then collected them up

Some Murillo covered with his own "work" 

Some were fashioned into apparel 

and many were just stacked up...stacks and stacks!

The Dutch exhibit was a video on "touching" which explored how happy people were taking off their clothes and doing something akin to a group grope. 

No shoes allowed on the cushions/pillows/rugs provided for watching the video

Another fashion shot

mid-afternoon gelato time

Pistachio in a pistachio cone, $5 for two

SC holds out for caffe flavor, THB holds off getting another cone!

THB uses every bit of his will power to pass on these cookies, and they have haunted his dreams for two nights

An excellent show featuring just two artists. Kerunen, the fabric/basketry artists, just signed with the Pace Gallery

Paintings by Collin Sekajugo

Acaye Kerunen

Bride for the day?

Another dinner of drinks, tapas, etc., by the pool, $130 and an early bedtime