Venice is also host to a major modern art exhibit called the Bienalle. This year marks the 54th such International Art Exhibition and is titled "ILLUMInations".
Though the 89 countries that participate exhibit in Venice itself, these are some of the collateral artists that have placed their works along the boulevard that links our hotel with the venues of the film festival.
"Not all are called to be artists... yet all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life... They are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece." - Pope John Paul II
From the greatest of them all...
"Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one."
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Polish filmmaker
To his runner-up...
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."