Tag: People
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Ice Cream You Scream
Ice Cream You Scream Boola-boola sarsaparoolaIf you’ve got chocolate, we’ll take vanoolaI scream, you scream, we all scream for ice creamRah! Rah! Rah! Photo of the week: Rome, Italy 1998
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year Let’s start the new year with a smile. Photo of the week: Holy Ghost Church, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 2019
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Light upon light
Light upon light Rays of the setting sunilluminating spacewithout and within.Light …Space …Peace … Photo of the week: Sultan Ahmet Camii, Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey 2003
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Sacred pomp
Sacred pomp It reminds me of my catholic youth in Holland. Sunday mass in the 50s of last century. A nostalgic image of a distant past. Forever gone … but not in Poland! Photo of the week: Church of Corpus Christi, Krakow, Poland 2007
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HISTORYNOW
HISTORYNOW During the consecutive lockdowns of the last few years Marc Quinn has made tens of artworks for his project HISTORYNOW which were to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia. The basis of all these works is each time a screenshot from his iPhone of news and stories…
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Visiting Venice
Visiting Venice The Art Biennale in Venice is still on. I like going there, for the art and for Venice. The visitors, if not in too large numbers, sometimes also contribute to the pleasure of my visit. And when I need a break of the Biennale art I can always walk into the San Zaccaria…
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When the mind says No
When the mind says No Just behind the Ukrainian Pavilion is one of those nice little squares of which Venice has so many. It has a small 13th century church, the Chiesetta della Misericordia, which houses this year the Dutch Pavilion of the Biennale with the video installation When the body says Yes by Melanie…
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Of loss and love
Of loss and love Before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, more than 14.000 people had already died in the war that started back in 2014. In the Mothers Series Ukrainian photographers portray hundreds of mothers that have lost a soldier son in the early years of the war. Under each picture…
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Valeriia
Valeriia Gigantic picture banner of Valeriia, one of the millions of Ukrainian children that have fled their country to escape the horror of war. The banner, made by French artist JR, has been unrolled in different cities of the world. Last April still on the Piazza San Marco in Venice before it found a place…
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Nympha
Nympha Paolo Fantin, in his installation Lympha at the Venice Biennale, shows us a ‘nympha’ enveloped in pure white and light, but with dirty mud at her feet. It’s the nymph Daphne who has tried hard to escape from the passionate, aggressive advances by Apollo. In the end she finds a way out by turning…
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