Venice: The Creative Rooms

November 25, 2009

7 more rooms were completed at the Certosa Hotel on Certosa Island, Venice.

Photos of Room 23 by Jan Olsson

A Room of One’s Own

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” Virginia Woolf

view from the entrance

view of bed and painting

the key: desktop printmaking plate, paper, and leads for printing

Roland Cabot poses with the painting

preparations: photo, key, bed and sketch for painting

The curator: Lucrezia de Domizio Durini

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Left to Right: Jan CM Peeters, Neriman Polat, Mark MacGowan, Jan Olsson, Roland Cabot, Tania Lopèz Winkler, and Aureli Ruiz


Venice: The Creative Rooms

November 4, 2009

November 22, 2009

Opening of  Creative Rooms, Part II, curated by Lucrezia de Dominizio Durini in collaboration with Gérard Georges Lemaire to coincide with the closing festivities of the 2009 Venice Biennial:

Jan Olsson is creating an installation entitled ” A Room of One’s Own: in memory of Virginia Woolf “

“…there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of the mind.” V.W.

Sample images:

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N°7_15x15

N°9_15x15 copy copy

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