VENICE VEINS
Venice is bleeding?
The canals are staged in deep red light to intrigue and maybe also unsettle the spectators.
Venice pulsates, breathes, is alive!
This ambitious urban art project is in the planning process
4,000m LED-Strings, Steel Strings, Swim Buoys etc. Venice, a city of 118 islands, a city of arts and architecture, of splendor and grandeur. Yet, Venice also is a fragile city tragically threatened by its own beauty. All of this, the beauty and the overflow (in multiple respects), is connected by the unique system of canals. They are the mode of transportation and exploration, they define the city’s irrevocable charm, its life, and its fate.
Venice Veins highlights the lifelines of the lagoon metropolis. While the people walk and ship through the city, the canals shine in deep red light. The waterways are thus emphasized as pulsating veins bringing life to all its corners. Water is the blood of Venice. Simultaneously, water is a threat to Venice. Will Venice bleed out? Or will mankind manage to protect this intriguing, beautiful, pounding heart in the Adriatic Sea?