Tao se dogaja sam po sebi, ne da bi počel karkoli; zato ni dogajanja, v katerem ne bi bil prisoten.
Če bi tudi kralji in princi upravljali z zemljo na tak način, bi se vse potekalo pravilno.
Lao Cu: Tao Te Čing

Vsak vnovični prihod v Benetke samo še poglobi moj občutek o njihovi neresničnosti. Silhueta mesta v meglici lagune, združena s čezoceanskimi cruiserji, kot fatamorgana trepeta zunaj časa in prostora. Potem ko se končno znajdem v mestu, me preplavijo občutki, v katerih se izmenjujejo melanholija in izginjanje, tako odlično ujeta v Viscontijevi priredbi knjige Thomasa Manna Smrt v Benetkah, ter dekadenca in perverzija, ki jo je v svojem filmu Casanova portretiral Fellini. Beneški umetniški in arhitekturni bienale je nadaljevanje te magične resničnosti mesta, ki kot fantomsko zakleta ladja pluje onkraj časa.
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The Tao proceedeth by its own nature, doing nothing; therefore there is no doing which it comprehendeth not.
If kings and princes were to govern in this manner, all things would operate aright by their own motion.
Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Every repeated visit to Venice would but deepen my sense of its unreality. The city’s silhouette in the lagoon mist together with trans-ocean cruisers, would flicker like a mirage, outside time and space. The next impression, having finally entered the city itself, would alternate between melancholy and disappearance,
so aptly captured in Visconti’s adaptation of the book by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, and decadence and perversion,
portrayed by Fellini in his film Casanova. The Venetian Art and Architectural Biennale is a continuation of this magical reality of a city which, like a phantom haunted ship, floats beyond time.
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