Re: <nettime> Lies Inc. in the UK

[carl guderian <carlg@vermilion-sands.com>]

Atrocity Exhibition! I'm *so* stealing that. (Though it was the  
Hungarian pavilion that hosted Crash.) The Italian pavilion was  
indeed chaotic and chock-a-block, some good work crowded out by a lot  
of crap maybe born of promises made at a Bunga Bunga party. I liked a  
piece consisting of a circle of kitchen knives on a red background;  
it reminded me of the movie poster for Dario Argento's stabby 1970s  
epic "The Bird With The Crystal Plumage."

Bringing a 1970s mindset to the pavilion couldn't hurt. Think of it  
as a 1970s hallucination scene, like from "Puppet On a Chain," with  
someone playing around with an anamorphic lens and scary music from  
Piero Piccione in the background...

Back in the present, Berlusconi's coalition took a pasting last week  
in mayoral elections, losing *Milan*!

This is the way, step inside...


On 6-jun-2011, at 16:30, Tobi Müller wrote:

> you must mean the former Italian pavillon in the Giardini, which is  
> curated by Bice Curiger. Patrice, I am sure, referred to the  
> Italian pavillon at the Arsenale, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi,  
> Berlusconi?s buddy and psychedelic TV-Personality. The latter  
> Italian pavillon looks like the work of a failed state. Cheers, Tobi
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