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'Dog Tales' series, 3rd episode  ( 1st episode  -  2nd episode ) By  Fashionoffice 's publisher Karin Sawetz "The dog only wants to play!" I said laughing to Marc Cabana* in my dream.  The scenery was very realistic and was in difference to my common dream experiences of long duration without sudden breaks or changes to other locations. Everything happened in this realistic dream at the Giardini in Venice.  *The figure Marc Cabana appeared already in the first 'Dog Tales'-episode. "But I don't want," says Marc Cabana standing at the dog cages of the German pavilion during Biennale Arte Venezia. He feels provoked by the critical fixing stare of the black watch dog. Who is the one who causes a security problem? Just as the dog would ask "Who has to be caged?" We are standing just at the entry to the pavilion and the installation by Anne Imhof has already hit the target! The dogs in the cages let Marc Cabana feel insecure and

'Dog Tales' series, 2nd episode ( 1st episode ) By  Fashionoffice 's publisher Karin Sawetz At 'Faust', dogs in cages are the first impressions visitors get of the performance-installation by Anne Imhof at Biennale Arte Venezia 2017. At the 'Apotheosis' by Balthasar Permoser,  a figure with wings sits in front of Prince Eugene; seen at the palace Schloss Hof in Austria nearby the border of Slovakia.       fig.: The image shows me at the 'Apotheosis of Prince Eugene' at the former hunting  palace Schloss Hof, one of the properties of Prince Eugene in Austria.   I wear the skirt with print of a painting  by 'Hondecoeter' which gave this series  its title 'Dog Tales'. (At the first episode, I've introduced with a partly surrealistic text into the  new art review series).  The two examples are significant for how society changed during the last 300 years as the content of the two artworks is the same: it's about th

By  Fashionoffice 's publisher Karin Sawetz During the last two decades, Fashionoffice has reported from time to time from the Biennale Arte Venezia. This year, the theme is 'Viva Arte Viva' and I try out another approach to the art experience. I pack it into a short series with the title 'Dog Tales'. Many of the associations are collected in the tradition of automatic writing where the subconsciousness, memories of dreams where situations that really happened are reworked - from solving to new-interpreting -  in a surrealistic way and hard facts of the currently running Biennale Venezia are mixed. 'Viva Arte Viva' is the motto of Biennale Arte Venezia 2017 and the supporting idea behind the new series 'Dog Tales'. fig.: Why is it entitled 'Dog Tales'? Because my currently most favorite skirt is made of a fabric with the print of a prominent painting by Hondecoeter . The name sounds in German like 'dog cur'. The decision to c