venice biennale: canadian artist shary boyle starts slow and steady - overhead projector

VENICE —
It seems that Wolfgang Geins does not quite believe what he sees.
Shary Boyle, in the silent music of the Canadian Pavilion, waved from festoon Boyle's work, the cave painter's overhead projector, and the collage of projected images was very busy.
Once, twice, he did it, first close, then further.
"This is very good," Geins said with a smile . " His English has a strong German accent.
"I don't think I 've seen anything like this before.
Earlier in the day, the Biennale jury presented the highest award to Edson Chagas from Angola.
As the Venice Biennale opens to the public on Saturday, more art lovers flock to it, it is time to put aside the critical assessment that took part in the full three-day preview and submit it to the court of public opinion. In the lead-
As of Saturday, Boyle's project had some important early exposure and was worth seeing two photos on Wednesday's New York Times slide.
Then the Wall Street Journal published an online feature of Boyle's work on Friday.
But Saturday is the first day of several months for the Biennale, ending on November. 24.
The event will have an impact on the career of any of the hundreds of artists here, which is largely to be seen.
But in the Canadian Pavilion, the silent music is its own.
A steady stream of viewers passed through the inconspicuous Pavilion, many of them wandering in dark, quiet spaces, absorbing black particles --and-
The white movie aunt is a poem performed by an actor in sign language, or a careful look at the three cosmic, dreamy porcelain sculptures here.
However, most of them gather around the cave painters, and the changing visual effects of the cave painters form a de facto altar or fireplace.
A huge plaster sculpture, nearly three metres long, is a statue of a mermaid reclining in a pale cave, as white as a alabaster.
When the projector is turned on, it converts a busy collage of color and images in an instant.
Blister horn \ xf2 Tromble, from Auckland, California.
, Hovered for a long time to check the work as it switched back and forth from pale, simple white to the explosion of the image.
"It's so interesting," Tromble said . " He teaches art at a university in the Bay Area.
"The symbols she uses have almost become clichés of creative ideas," she said . " She refers to the curl of a python projected on the mermaid's tail.
"But the way she did it made it completely fresh again.
How did she do it?