Rod Summers in Venice

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Rod Summers in Venice

Most of you know that, beginning next month, Rod Summers has a five week residency in Venice at the Emily Harvey Foundation. He will arrive on the 16th of February and leave on the 23 of March 2009.

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Comment by Rod Summers on March 21, 2009 at 3:52pm

Comment by Rod Summers on March 21, 2009 at 3:50pm
Today it was last minute shopping, Liesbet bought a leather bag and I bought two millefioro pendants. We walked out to visit “The most beautiful bookshop in the world” and the owner Frizzo Luigi just might be right! His shop floods every time the waters rise so most of his millions of books are lying in boats or baths. We bought a couple of books and I made a few photos.
We then took a lunch of sachertort and tea or coffee. It is still bright but noticeably colder, there are frosts predicted here for next week.
Thanks for all those who have read and reacted to this blog and most of all thanks to Ruud for allowing me this indulgence. I will post a farewell here tomorrow.
Bless bless.
Rod in Venice
Comment by Rod Summers on March 20, 2009 at 6:21pm
A chill wind blew through the city of Venice this day. Whilst yesterday saw a shedding of the excess layers of clothing, today required a zipping of zips and a jerking of jerkins. This was the penultimate day of running with the camera, weather permitting we will walk out again tomorrow but Sunday will be spent getting our packing organized, a necessary act as many of the artists we have met have given me books, catalogues and art works for the VEC archive and I will be returning with considerably more than I arrived with. The first few days back at home will be spent burning the CDs I have promised people. If you didn’t receive the CD(s) I promised you by the end of the month contact me by email.
…and whilst on that subject! I am an audio artist, I put considerable effort into sound detail, if you receive a CD from me please do not play it via your laptop computer loudspeakers as that would be the same as trying to look at a painting through a brown smoked glass window that has not been cleaned for 23 years! The best way to hear VEC audio is on a CD player with a pair of quality stereo headphones plugged into a hi-fi system, good loudspeakers are also good. All VEC audio CDs are verified after the burning so they leave me fault free.
Today we bought trinkets and gifts for family and friends, carnival mask fridge magnets, bead bracelets, millefiori paper weights and the like, not quite enough wampum to buy Manhattan with, but enough. Yesterday in Murano I bought myself a little pill box with a lid of green and white millefiori and a black millefiori bracelet to hang on the corner of my computer monitor.
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Comment by Rod Summers on March 19, 2009 at 9:28pm
This morning a man with a Mac came to tweak the Internet connection in the apartment, he came with Davidson and Sylvia from The Emily Harvey Foundation and at the time they arrived I was watching a lecture by Richard Dawkins on the Internet, an activity I recommend to all:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism.html
When the visitors had left Liz and I walked across the island to take a vaporetto number 42 across to Murano a journey of 10 minutes via the cemetery. Vaporetto are the Venice version of buses, nice noisy boats that bump their way along the Canal Grande and between the islands that make up greater Venice.
When we left the sun was at full strength and it was warm enough for me to remove one layer on clothing insulation.
Just in case there are one or two of my readers who haven’t been to Venice before me… yes I’m sure there must be at least one or two of you, Murano is the island where craftsmen turn glass into artworks, some dire kitsch and some the most exquisite art… but then life is like that.
We were fortunate enough to have been informed by Dorina Petronino about one of furnaces on Murano, the Berengo Studio which is the one which is dedicating itself to the production of glass works in small editions based upon the designs of prominent contemporary artists like Koen van Mechelen, Juan Ripollés and Jan Fabre. Our further good fortune was to meet Brunello Valter there who was kind enough to give us a personal guided tour and even show us the new gallery of the studio which will be officially opened in June of this year in time for the Venice biennale.
I have to admit watching craftsmen at work is something I find fascinating, watching a team of three master craftsman produce a work of art at the Berengo Studio was captivating, I wish I had gone over to Murano earlier in my stay and then made several visits to document the activities of these glass masters. In today’s short visit I only made a few photographs but enough to realize this is a fascinating subject for a more in depth study. In all today I made 120 photographs and 15 minutes of sound recording. A few of the photographs are here below.
On our return boat trip it was clear that the weather is about to change, the sea was quite choppy and the sky full of threatening clouds. We will see what tomorrow brings.
Comment by Rod Summers on March 19, 2009 at 9:25pm

 

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