Video: Culinary installation of the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the Venice Biennale, it is customary to exhibit not only individual works of individual artists from different countries, but also to create entire thematic pavilions representing major museums, collectors or even countries. This year, for example, a Chinese pavilion opened in Venice, one of the exhibits of which was installation "Cloud-tea"dedicated to the cuisine of this country.
Chinese cuisine is as widespread on Earth as Chinese goods. In any more or less large city in the world there is a Chinese restaurant, and in megalopolises there are tens and hundreds of them. So Chinese cuisine is the real ambassador of this country, promoting its traditional culture around the world.
The installation "Cloud Tea", presented in the courtyard of the Chinese pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011, is dedicated to the kitchen. This installation represents several artificial clouds of white color, symbolizing the traditional Chinese cuisine white tea.
Around these clouds there is a constant fog generated by special installations. This fog, also symbolizing clouds, has the smell of the white tea itself, as well as lotus flowers, incense and medicinal herbs traditional for China.
In addition, the sound of the wind sounds from imperceptible sound installations within the installation, giving the impression that all this is not in a clearing in the courtyard of the Chinese pavilion in Venice, but somewhere high above the ground, in the clouds.
White tea in China is considered one of the traditional drinks of Buddhist monks who drink it to keep the mind clean and the body toned. So the main task of the "Cloud-Tea" installation is to make its visitors a little more cheerful, cheerful and enlightened. And, having reached this wonderful state, you can go to see other exhibitions in the framework of the Venice Biennale, for example, Big Bambu from the artist brothers Mike and Doug Starn or the candle sculpture by Urs Fischer.
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