If you're planning on being one of the millions of visitors flooding into Venice this summer and you're looking for an alternative way to enjoy the floating city, why not tour it with art as your guide?
Once inside the Giardini, follow your instincts and allow yourself to be drawn into the buildings that grab you. If you aren't going to inspect each national exhibit forensically , do not miss Simone Leigh's stunning"Sovereignty" in the United States pavilion. The series of sculptures deserves a moment of quiet meditation on the artist's expansive and visceral portrayal of the Black female experience.
Next, hop on a vaportetto and make your way to Gallerie dell'Accademia, where the starry British artist Anish Kapoor has a show that runs until October. If you're queasy, brace yourself -- the first pieces, in flashes of crimson red and dry-blood brown, are of a gory nature and large in scale. There's a violence to this well-known work, a liverishness -- but it's almost impossible not to stare.
For something different, seek out respite from the heat at the Complesso dell'Ospedaletto and Church of Santa Maria dei Derelitti, where a series of eight short films by the Fondazione In Between Art Film, an initiative by Italian costume designer Beatrice Bulgari to support moving image art, are being screened.
The good news? Your tour is done. The bad news? You've seen but a fraction of what's on offer. So if you're staying another day and haven't had your fill, here are a few more shows to stop in to.Downstairs, a powerful group show of work by Ukrainian artists made since Russia launched its brutal attack on the country in February. Upstairs, some of the biggest names in contemporary art, including Damien Hirst and Marina Abramović, respond to the war with new and archival work.
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