Daniel von Sturmer’s, The Object of Things, 2007, is a video-sculptural installation filling the Australian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. Obviously there have been quite a number of sculptural installations since the 1990s (Coulter-Smith 2006), but this one is particularly interesting not only because of its intersection of sculpture and video but also because of its intersection of narrative and abstraction. (more…)
The artist group AES+F (made up of Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky + Vladimir Fridkes) showed their three-screen CGI film Last Riot 2005-07 (VIDEO CLIP) in the Russian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale. (more…)
This exhibition begins forcefully and ends on a whimper. The first works one encounters are without a doubt the best: 1st Light, 2005 and 2nd Light, 2006. The problem with the rest of the exhibition is that these two works say it all. The rest of the exhibits reiterate and progressively inflate and dilute the initial impact right up to the final whimper of 4th Light which casts itself over a pathetic charcoal drawing and literalises to death the motifs so beautifully and lyrically handled in 1st Light and 2nd Light. We find that Chan wasn’t really ready to fill up the Serpentine, and certainly revealed the weaknesses in his young oeuvre in trying to do so. But rather than dwelling on negatives we can focus instead on the really good works in this exhibition. (more…)
Daniel von Sturmer’s, The Object of Things, 2007, is a video-sculptural installation filling the Australian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. Obviously there have been quite a number of sculptural installations since the 1990s (Coulter-Smith 2006), but this one is particularly interesting not only because of its intersection of sculpture and video but also because of its intersection of narrative and abstraction. (more…)
