British artist Sarah Lucas is the sole exhibitor in the Great Britain pavilion in il Giardino at the Venice Biennale 2015. Other than her three small scale balloon-animal cat sculptures, the rest of her work is very sexual in content. There are two monumental bright yellow resin sculptures, one in the portico entrance and one in an interior room. These are made like giant balloon sculptures and are male supine nudes each with a monstrous
Red. This is the first impression when I entered the Japan pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015. The sculpture, "The Key in the Hand", 2015 is the solo artwork by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota.
Shiota's sculpture comprises thousands of tiny, rusty antique keys that are suspended from a complex array of red strings. They dangle above, droop down and almost consume old wooden fish boats that are mounted to appear lurching in rough seas. Thousands more keys spill out on the floor from under