Comments on: Florence Biennale Experience Now Live. http://akajake.com/blog/2010/02/10/florence-biennale-experience-now-live/ About art & the art of Jake Beckman, painter of magical realism & representational abstracts. "Currently I paint binary & birds based on humorous observations of social media & other forms of electronic communications. Alternatively I am exploring mathematical abstraction in my new non representational work.-Jake" Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jake http://akajake.com/blog/2010/02/10/florence-biennale-experience-now-live/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Jake Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:17:37 +0000 http://akajake.com/blog/?p=251#comment-115 Howdy Kim I have another blog topic that is open to people commenting about their practical experience of the Biennale <a href="http://akajake.com/blog/2009/12/28/2009-florence-biennale-experience/" rel="nofollow">http://akajake.com/blog/2009/12/28/2009-florence-biennale-experience/</a>. Only one person, Julien Corcoran, chimed in with not one but two rather lengthy replies. After he wrote I published my civility policy, but I permitted his responses to post unedited. I have nothing against a lively discussion about the pros and cons of the Biennale, but I do request that people stop short of name calling and be respectful of others in their replies. If anyone wants to talk about their feelings about the Biennale, good or bad, I think that blog post is the appropriate forum. I want this post to be about the art and camaraderie and other positive aspects of the show, the good stuff. As for the art that I photographed, when I came home and downloaded my photos there were many artists whose work I admired that I failed to get shots of, but then again there were well over 500 participants. I did post every photograph the art I did get pictures of, but the exclusion of other artists by no means reflects on the quality of their work-it means I just didn't get their picture while I was there. As for me I didn't view my participation as a vacation, which is one reason I did attend the event everyday. As to conjecture as to why the traffic was so slow, I did speculate a little in my other blog, but also I don't think we should discount the state of the economy both in the US as well as in Europe. Anyway Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. Jake Howdy Kim

I have another blog topic that is open to people commenting about their practical experience of the Biennale http://akajake.com/blog/2009/12/28/2009-florence-biennale-experience/. Only one person, Julien Corcoran, chimed in with not one but two rather lengthy replies. After he wrote I published my civility policy, but I permitted his responses to post unedited. I have nothing against a lively discussion about the pros and cons of the Biennale, but I do request that people stop short of name calling and be respectful of others in their replies. If anyone wants to talk about their feelings about the Biennale, good or bad, I think that blog post is the appropriate forum.

I want this post to be about the art and camaraderie and other positive aspects of the show, the good stuff.

As for the art that I photographed, when I came home and downloaded my photos there were many artists whose work I admired that I failed to get shots of, but then again there were well over 500 participants. I did post every photograph the art I did get pictures of, but the exclusion of other artists by no means reflects on the quality of their work-it means I just didn’t get their picture while I was there.

As for me I didn’t view my participation as a vacation, which is one reason I did attend the event everyday. As to conjecture as to why the traffic was so slow, I did speculate a little in my other blog, but also I don’t think we should discount the state of the economy both in the US as well as in Europe.

Anyway Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.

Jake

]]> By: kimberly berg http://akajake.com/blog/2010/02/10/florence-biennale-experience-now-live/comment-page-1/#comment-114 kimberly berg Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:25:39 +0000 http://akajake.com/blog/?p=251#comment-114 Hi Jake, Elisha Ben-Yitzhak tipped me off to your blog. He said he had seen my two Biennale paintings, EDEN REVISITED and MANDALA VIII, on your blog under "random art pics". I decided not to make the trip to Florence so it was a pleasant surprise to see indisputable evidence that they actually were able to surreptitiously slip through all the hoops and end up hanging on a wall. It is comforting to know that you recognize good art when you see it. Most of the art you selected to photograph was quite interesting. I enjoyed reading about your experiences although I must say it confirmed my decision to not make the trip. It's sad that so much work went into the event and so few people actually found it important enough to view the exhibit. It's too bad that many had to think of it as a vacation rather than a serious art event. What do you attribute to this state of affairs? What about the people/artists you talked to at the biennale?What did they think? How about opening your blog to such a discussion. Peace, Kim Hi Jake,
Elisha Ben-Yitzhak tipped me off to your blog. He said he had seen my two Biennale paintings, EDEN REVISITED and MANDALA VIII, on your blog under “random art pics”. I decided not to make the trip to Florence so it was a pleasant surprise to see indisputable evidence that they actually were able to surreptitiously slip through all the hoops and end up hanging on a wall.

It is comforting to know that you recognize good art when you see it. Most of the art you selected to photograph was quite interesting. I enjoyed reading about your experiences although I must say it confirmed my decision to not make the trip. It’s sad that so much work went into the event and so few people actually found it important enough to view the exhibit. It’s too bad that many had to think of it as a vacation rather than a serious art event. What do you attribute to this state of affairs? What about the people/artists you talked to at the biennale?What did they think?
How about opening your blog to such a discussion.

Peace,
Kim

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