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Venice Biennale: George Nuku

Venice Biennale: George Nuku.

Featured at Judy Millar’s venue, La Maddalena, The New Zealand Room at Venice Biennale is a meeting place for visitors to explore New Zealand’s contemporary art, culture, literature and design.

The walls have been adorned by panels commissioned especially for the New Zealand Room, designed and carved by highly regarded Maori artist George Nuku.  In this video he talks about his work. Read More »

Virtual Tour: Judy Millar

Judy Millar, Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, Installation view La Maddalena, Venice, NZ pavilion 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009. Photo by Hans-Georg Gaul.

A virtual tour of Judy Millar’s Venice Biennale exhibition, Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, in La Maddalena. The historic venue is the only circular church in Venice, designed by Tommaso Temanza and built in 1780. Read More »

Virtual Tour: Venice Biennale

Richard 2008 by Francis Upritchard. Photograph by Anna Arca, courtesy Kate MacGarry, London.

A virtual tour of Francis Upritchard's Venice Biennale exhibition, presented by her co-curator Heather Galbraith.

The installation Save Yourself includes clusters of figures situated on table-like wooden platforms extending out from the base of giant antique mirrors within the Fondazione Claudio Buziol, overlooking the Grand Canal, in the Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana. Read More »