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Italy 2005
Torino
I arrived in Torino and Marco fetched me from the airport. He took me all over Torino. From The Mario Merz Foundation, Rivoli Castle; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation and the Duca degli Abruzzi National Mountain Museum.
Max Tomasinelli
Max Tomasinelli took photographs of me for an exhibition and a book he is working on about artists' all over the world.
Enrico De Paris Studio
Marco took me to meet Enrico De Paris, an Italian artist based in Torino. His work is amazing. His outlook in life and towards art is unparalleled to any artist I have met in South Africa. He is open, sharing and completley committed to art. It's in his blood. He knows of nothing else.
Enrico invited me to come work with him in his studio in Torino.
Enrico's work can be seen at Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Milan, or Galleria Traghetto, Venice
Enrico De Paris CHROMOSOMA Exhibition in Venice
We went to see Enrico Exhibition 'CHROMOSOMA' in Venice. I bought a work called Genesis. Marco and I drove all the way back to Torino, from Venice, with Enrico. The conversation was so intense for me. Here was two Italians, passionate about art, feeding me information, giving me advice. I couldn't absorb it all, it would take me a lifetime.
Venice site seeing
We did some site seeing in and around Venice. We went for lunch down a quaint little side street near the Arsenale. Then we met up with Enrico and walked around the North Side of Venice to see The cemetery and Murano. This is where they blow glass. Enrico commissions an artist on the island to blow glass for him, which he then uses in his work.
Venice Biennale 2005
The Biennale was inspiring. We walked through all the represented countries. I even got to see the video installations by South African artists Zwelethu Mthethwa and William Kentridge, which were housed in the Italian house.
The UK house was a mass of Gilbert and George. I could of spent a year in there just absorbing the works and the scale of the works.
The hippo by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla was cool. I got to partake in the type writer work by Rivane Neuenschwander, from Brazil. My favourite work was the tampon and steel installation by Joana Vasconcelos from Lisboa.
Marco enjoyed the Wave UFO by Mariko Mori.
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