txt: Pinault, Ando et Cacciari lancent la Pointe de la Douane
Hier après-midi, devant la presse internationale et les autorités locales, François Pinault, président de Palazzo Grassi a présenté, avec Tadao Ando, le projet architectural du futur centre d’art contemporain à la Pointe de la Douane. En présence du maire de Venise, Massimo Cacciari, ils ont annoncé l’iminent début des travaux afin d’assurer une ouverture du site à l’occasion de la prochaine Biennale d’art contemporain, en juin 2009.
txt: Manifesto – Aurora Street associazione culturale
The bell tower clock strikes seven in the evening.
In the central hall of the Venice Museum darkness falls, shrouding the blackened remains of what was once the main square of our city.
This is where our ancestors met to do what the inhabitants of every city do in their main squares: stroll, meet with friends, converse and maybe even enjoy an ice-cream while sitting at one of the many square’s Caffès, letting their thoughts dance to the notes of the small orchestras. Today it seems that the aim of the Museum is to reproduce that atmosphere of past times for visitors with the same effective suggestion as a washed-out photograph fixed on the tombstones of people who have been buried.
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