EXTERIOR & FRONT ROOM
THE PUDDLE Cast-concrete indent has been created to form a shallow body of standing water
LONG SECTION
RUSKIN ARCHIVE Electronic Archive of John Ruskin’s Venetian Notebooks
THE VENICE LAGOON The section of the Pavilion dedicated to life in the Lagoon explores the common theme of detail and perspective while also informing visitors about Venice’s unique situation
CROSS SECTION FEMININE UNDERCROFT The formal structural emphasis of the Stadium for Close Looking is offset by the relatively casual display, which constitutes the only specifically ‘feminist’ presence in the Pavilion
RUSKIN NARRATIVE A visual narrative curated by Robert Hewison describing the detailed working methods used by John Ruskin to gather the information for his seminal work The Stones of Venice, first published in 1851
RUSKIN AND GAVAGNIN WINGS (DONE.BOOK) A comparison of two obsessive attempts to archive Venice in an installation across both wings by Wolfgang Scheppe
THE STADIUM OF CLOSE LOOKING The Stadium of Close Looking is a 1:10 scale model of the London Olympic Stadium – repurposed as a drawing studio and lecture room for public gatherings, convened by Pavilion collaborators
RALPH RUMNEY The adventures of the English situationist Ralph Rumney in Venice were both frustrating and invigorating. His work on Venice was eventually published in London, but the damage had already been done.
Rumney’s continual ‘defeat’ by Venice can be posited as a reverse parallel to Ruskin’s ‘victory’ over the same city