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After a few seconds, it becomes clear that San Marco will not, after all, burn down. The fire is a reflection from a Plessi video installation “WaterFire” on the windows in the Museo Correr. For approximately three minutes, the windows are engulfed in images of flames, and then the flames subside into soothing violet images of the sea. The square becomes peaceful again as the blue hues dance off the gold mosaics of the Basilica, only to be illuminated by the orange flames three minutes later...
...slice it, the 45th Venice Biennale of contemporary art, which opened to the public last week, is a failure. The more interesting parts of it tend to be the peripheral shows -- a fine homage to Francis Bacon installed in the 18th century rooms of the Museo Correr, on St. Mark's Square, and some multimedia pieces by filmmaker Peter Greenaway and stage designer Robert Wilson in a section called "Slittamenti," or "Trans-Actions." But as survey and analysis, this Biennale is quite incoherent and achieves the near impossible feat of making what still passes for "radical" creation look even weaker...
WHERE: MUSEO CORRER, VENICE...
...hold. The most recent, which may restore Canova to some popularity, is the sleeper of Venice's summer art season: a show of 152 drawings, clay models, plasters and finished marble carvings, borrowed from as far afield as St. Petersburg, handsomely installed in the period rooms of the Museo Correr on Piazza San Marco. It is 20 years since such a group of Canovas has been assembled in public...
...everything Canova did was on this level; how could it have been? He was an extremely fashionable artist, and he paid the price of fashion: his superrefined style slid into mannered performance and self-repetition, abundantly represented in the Museo Correr by a gallery of ideal heads. No matter. If this show gives its visitors even a few reasons for looking at the best of Canova without prejudice, it will have done its job; the signs are that...