Take a look at The Guardian's top picks from the Venice Biennale.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/may/29/venice-biennale-ai-weiwei-best-pictures
And then a slideshow from the Telegraph...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8555041/Venice-Biennale-2011-art-festival-in-pictures.html
Some of these seem pretty interesting...others just feel a bit too spectacle-oriented for my viewing pleasure, though I suppose being there changes the experience quite a bit. I think I'm just not into installation art as much as most other people...
I think I find it overbearing...like the artist is yelling at you...like they don't think they are being heard so they need the art to be obviously interesting from afar instead of letting the viewer happen upon it. I know that's not the case and probably more a problem with my personal viewing experience, but I just find looking at installation after installation a bit tiresome....like being in a critique to some extent. At some point you just don't care about all the negative words anymore...
maybe that's more a result of going through a slideshow or viewing the work in the form of a fair...maybe installation art needs to be isolated? Is the surreal still surreal when everything's surreal?
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