It´s time for the second part of the Damien Hirst exhibition in Venice at Palazzo Grassi, right in the heart of Venice. Built between 1748 and 1772 Palazzo Grassi is located on the Canale Grande. It was kind of a latecomer among the other Palazzi on the Canale Grande and has a more academic classical […]
Seeing Venice in the fog, Damien Hirst and seeing the hands emerging from the Canale Grande and supporting Ca´Sagredo Hotel – these were kind of the main reasons for my trip to Venice in November and I got lucky on two of them! “Support” by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn The limbs rest against the Ca’ […]
Another reason besides the fog for me to come back to Venice in November was the Damien Hirst exhibition in the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi: “Treasures of the Wreck of the Unbelievable.” On the day of the show’s preview, curator Elena Guena narrated the fairytale of Cif Amotan II, the first-century Antioch freed-slave-turned-art-collector whose […]