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Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The celebrated new Australian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, attracted global attention. Fiona Hall became the first artist to represent Australia in the new building with her exhibition Wrong Way Time. The world is such an amazing place, yet sadly we are living in troubled times…

Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Looking ahead. The evolution of the art of making, Venice Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Exhibition “Looking ahead. The evolution of the art of making. 9 stories from Veneto: digital – not only digital.” in the Venice Pavilion, returns to its origins, with an exhibition on contemporary Applied Arts. The Venice Pavilion at the 2015 Biennale, based on technology and knowledge deriving from experience,…

Looking ahead. The evolution of the art of making, Venice Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room, Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

At the Venice Art Biennale 2015, the Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini showcases Darwin’s Room, an exhibition of recent paintings by Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977), curated by Mihai Pop. The title refers not only to a series of portraits (and self-portraits in the guise) of the great British naturalist, but…

Adrian Ghenie – Darwin’s Room, Romanian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Agrimiká – Why look at animals? Greece pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

In the context of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Outset Greece supports the artist Maria Papadimitriou who will represent Greece with the project AGRIMIKA – Why look at animals?. The Greek Pavilion immediately manages to create an alienating space, in which the visitor is offered the…

Agrimiká – Why look at animals? Greece pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Canadassimo, Canadian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

An Installation by the BGL art collective for the Canada Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, 2015; Marie Fraser, Guest Curator; organized by the National Gallery of Canada. In this presentation at Giardini di Castello, the collective composed of Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, Nicolas…

Canadassimo, Canadian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Exterior, Seville Cathedral

Seville Cathedral has three covers on the façade of the feet, one on each arm of the transept and two at the head, it also presents another door that leads to the patio de los naranjos, called the lizard and another that communicates with the church of the tabernacle and…

Exterior, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the south side, Seville Cathedral

The cathedral has 80 chapels and altars. The altars of the cathedral of Seville are an extraordinary set to observe the stylistic evolution of the art of gridwork in Andalusia. These closures protect the enclosures, they are openwork screens through which light penetrates and produce an atmosphere of mystery that…

Altars on the south side, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the east side, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the east side, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the north side, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the north side, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the west side, Seville Cathedral

Altars on the west side, Seville Cathedral

Office Pavilion, Seville Cathedral

The history of the Office Pavilion dates back to the beginning of the 18th century, when there were a series of houses located in the southwest corner of the cathedral, corresponding to rental units, barns and other warehouses. The precariousness of the structures made the Cabildo propose to build an…

Office Pavilion, Seville Cathedral

Ornament Room, Seville Cathedral

Old office of accounts, also called room of ornaments, incomes and values of the council, located next to the chapter room. Inside, valuable objects are exposed, such as the San Fernando Banner that is believed to have been carried by the troops of Fernando III of Castilla in 1248 during…

Ornament Room, Seville Cathedral

Chapter room, Seville Cathedral

From the antechamber, one of the most admirable precincts of Spanish Renaissance architecture is accessed through a curved corridor, the Chapter House of the Cathedral, whose construction lasted from the mid-16th century until its completion with the intervention of the architect Hernán Ruiz II and ending it Asensio de Maeda.…

Chapter room, Seville Cathedral

Antechamber, Seville Cathedral

From the ornamentation room one returns to the Chapel of the Marshal, also located next to the chapter hall, it is accessed through the marshal’s chapel. It was designed by Hernán Ruiz II, in the year 1564, the plant is rectangular, with a stone-carved barrel vault with casetones and a…

Antechamber, Seville Cathedral

Sagrario Church, Seville Cathedral

The Tabernacle of the Cathedral of Seville, is a religious temple of baroque style and Catholic worship that is located on Avenida de la Constitución. It is integrated into the large block formed by the Cathedral, whose parish services it administers, the Patio de los Naranjos and other annexed buildings.…

Sagrario Church, Seville Cathedral

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