Tag: Art
No, not Abbott & Costello, but Allora and Calzadilla. Yes, we are finally leaving the world of commedia, but not the world of Venice. Earlier this summer I reported on A & C’s work, this year’s unusual U.S. entry to the Venice Biennale arts festival, which runs through November 27th. In that early post, I didn’t have any video to show from Venice. Now I do, plus this dissenting review from the NY Times.
The Venice Biennale is a bi-annual world fair of art, complete with national pavilions, long lines, and manufactured hoopla. The U.S. pavilion went up in 1930 and has usually housed big-name artists, starting with Edward Hopper that initial year. But this time around, instead of sending an established solo artist, our government has chosen to have us represented by two less known collaborative artists who are centered not stateside but rather in Puerto Rico — Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. And for apparently the first time ever, the visual artists are also performance artists. I haven’t seen their work, but what interests me about them is their whimsical humor and physicality, in this case involving a troupe of former Olympic gymnasts in their piece.
In a previous and popular post, this blog had the privilege of sharing Karen Gersch’s paintings and drawings of classic clowns. If you haven’t seen it, Do Not Pass Go and instead click here immediately!
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin