Video: Time keepers. Mystical sculptures at the Venice Biennale
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Venice Biennale Is one of the most famous events in the art world. Every year, masters from different countries come to Venice to surprise the audience with extraordinary discoveries in the field of music, theater, cinema, sculpture and architecture. Today we will talk about one of the most mystical projects that surprised the guests of the Biennale this year.
Austrian sculptor Manfred Kielnhofer can rightfully be called one of the main mystics of our time. He presented to the audience a series of sculptures called Guardians of Time, or Timeguards). Unusual figures, glowing from the inside and dressed from head to toe in scarlet capes, could be seen in the most unexpected places: on the streets, on the embankment and even on some gondolas next to passengers tired during the day.
According to mythology and modern science fiction, the timekeepers are a group of time travelers who can intervene at key moments in our history. Manfred Kielnhoffer has been interested in creating sculptures since 2006, his work “traveled” around the world, and finally reached Venice.
This year the Venice International Biennale of Art has pleased with a large number of unusual projects. Of course, we have already managed to tell the readers of the site Kulturologiya. Ru about the most interesting of them. This is an "architectural" masterpiece - a pocket city of 387 miniature houses by Peter Fritz, as well as the mythical installation "Danae" by our compatriot, Vadim Zakharov.
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