Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas' 'Post-vs-Proto-Rennaisance' wooden egg installation

inside Venice's Chiesa di San Fantin

The 54th Annual Venice Biennale directed by art historian and critic Bice Curiger, opened to the public last Saturday after contemporary art collectors and industry insiders enjoyed three days of previews, parties, and healthy servings of polenta with baccala.

Inside the city's former ship yard Arsenale, the crowds buzzed around Urs Fischer's three wax statues, including one burning variation of his own office chair and a portrait of his friend Rudolf Stingel.

The English and Austrian pavilions made the biggest splashes in the Giardini, the newness at this Biennale was in the emergence of Middle Eastern artists such as sisters Shadia Alem and Raja Alem (Saudia Arabia), Farhad Moshiri (Iran) and Ahmed Alsoudani (Iraq).

 Lucio Fontana, 'Concetto Spaziale. La Fine di Dio (Spacial Conception. The End of God) 1963

Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri's 'Life is Beautiful' work features hundreds of knives stabbing

the  walls at the Pinault Foundation's Palazzo Grass

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