Art: Biennale and Padova Arte

i am here for art.
it is for the love of art that i got this scholarship.
it's not solely in my classes i get my daily dose of art, it is in my everyday life here.
biking around the city, riding through the falling leaves of fall, snaking through the hustle and bustle of the cars, immersing myself in the historic grounds of education...

if these weren't enough, i am here at the same time when the Biennale is on-going. it's this exhibition of contemporary art from all over the world. Philippines is not part of it, it will really be an honor though to be asked to participate...yet i have no idea what the standards are to be asked.
the entrance to this is 8 euros and i went twice. 16 euros well spent. thats how much i liked it. the place is huge and i endured two trips of it! by the end of the second trip, my legs were already cramping up and the walk back to the ferrovia did not help since the exhibition is all the way in the other side of Venice.

also, Padova Arte is very much like Biennale but on a smaller scale...it was held in the Fiera Padova, a good 15 minutes away from my flat...entrance was free for students...for me, it was as interesting as Biennale even if it was way smaller in production.

what i really like about art is that it can have many interpretations, you get to see the work of artists and somehow get to see how their minds work, how they see their environment, it's very much like travelling in the sense that you see the distinction and similarities of style and culture..
sure, some may seem incredibly stupid and an obvious attempt of fooling the public by calling their piece 'art' but who knows, it may be that a broken mirror or a floating mannequin made to seem dead or whatnot meant something to the artist...it doesnt have to be beautiful for it to be art and sure, the beautiful ones are more appealing but it takes so much more to see the beauty in the normal everyday hodgepodge of things...


goes and wanders