Following up on his monumental sculpture for the 2017 Venice Biennale, Support, artist Lorenzo Quinn has returned to the city with yet another phenomenal work. This time, Lorenzo built six pairs of hands joining over the historic Arsenale. At almost 50 feet (15m) high and 65 feet (20m) wide, Building Bridges is a piece that celebrates unity and is a stunning addition to the city as it hosts the 58th Venice Biennale.
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Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
“Building Bridges is about taking action and cultures uniting for a common good”
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“My work in Venice wasn’t finished with Support, my previous sculpture,” Lorenzo told Bored Panda. “In fact, it’s a trilogy. Support was meant to encourage us to open your eyes and Building Bridges is about taking action and cultures uniting for a common good. The third piece (which will be unveiled after 2 years)… Well, you’ll just have to wait and see but I can tell you that it won’t involve any hands.”
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
“The human hands fascinate me because through them, I am able to spread very direct, universal messages. Plus, I’m Italian, we speak with our hands”
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
“Building Bridges consists out of 6 individual bridges: wisdom, hope, help, faith, friendship, and love”
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
“I wanted to represent the 5 continents and the sixth one – love – bringing them all together”
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“In numerology, 6 is the number of love”
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
“The engineering was crazy,” Lorenzo said. “We had little time to change the designs to fit the new location given to us just 5 weeks before the inauguration of the piece, but we made it happen thanks to an amazing team.”
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
The location for Building Bridges is a special one, although it wasn’t Lorenzo who had to decide on it. Nonetheless, the artist said that it turned out just right and has even become a destination point. “It’s also interesting that in the Arsenale, they built the boats that traveled the world and opened commerce between Venice and the Far East, bridging cultures.”
Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn
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People had a lot to say about this stunning sculpture
A pity he didn't value the architecture and overall look of Venice. This just looks out of place. Place them in a large city with skyscrapers.
I agree that it's not in keeping with the architecture of Venice, but it's still an interesting looking piece.
Load More Replies...The stark white is not indicative or representative of any skin tone I know. I think the use of the stark white is a fine way to not connect to any race in particular (if he used different shades of skin tone, no doubt not all of them would be covered under 12 types and more complaints would ensue) and painting them different colours seems less visually striking than the white, IMO.
Im not gonna lie, I do have to get used to them. The idea is really lovely and its executed very nice as well, but somehow for me they feel kinda out of place in a city with such a different architectural style. Nevertheless, cool concept and building bridges is definitely something we can use in this time of age :)
it's a part of this year's biennale, it will be removed
Load More Replies...ABSOLUTELY enjoy this! Adding color would change the whole night reflection. Do not chang a thing. People need to stop seeing individual color and see the whole meaning. This is peace and togetherness no matter where your from. It is a structure of everyone in the world coming together. Not about black, white, brown, yellow, grey with pink pokadots. Love this!!!! 🙏🏻☝️🕯💒💖
I wish they stopped Italy has become quite a dangerous place to live in thanks to these ''bridges'' (open borders) , you can't sit in the park peacefully, walk with your dog in the evenings etc....I can give you more examples....
That's the wonderful irony of this: open your heart to 'cultural enrichment' and prepare to pay the price. This project is bankrupt virtue signaling on a grand scale.
Load More Replies...*Me walking across the high five/praying(?) fingers* “This is a c**p bridge, I should have picked that folded flat one!” (But seriously this is a really cool idea)
Also I think it would look cool if they painted them super bright colors like hot pink, neon blue, etc
Load More Replies...Looks amazing! I was in Venice 2 years ago and saw the 'Support' installation by Lorenzo Quinn where the giant hands were coming out of Grand Canal to hold up a waterside hotel. Pretty cool to stand under them.
If you want to show cultures uniting you may not want to go all-white. Different sizes would also have been nice.
A pity he didn't value the architecture and overall look of Venice. This just looks out of place. Place them in a large city with skyscrapers.
I agree that it's not in keeping with the architecture of Venice, but it's still an interesting looking piece.
Load More Replies...The stark white is not indicative or representative of any skin tone I know. I think the use of the stark white is a fine way to not connect to any race in particular (if he used different shades of skin tone, no doubt not all of them would be covered under 12 types and more complaints would ensue) and painting them different colours seems less visually striking than the white, IMO.
Im not gonna lie, I do have to get used to them. The idea is really lovely and its executed very nice as well, but somehow for me they feel kinda out of place in a city with such a different architectural style. Nevertheless, cool concept and building bridges is definitely something we can use in this time of age :)
it's a part of this year's biennale, it will be removed
Load More Replies...ABSOLUTELY enjoy this! Adding color would change the whole night reflection. Do not chang a thing. People need to stop seeing individual color and see the whole meaning. This is peace and togetherness no matter where your from. It is a structure of everyone in the world coming together. Not about black, white, brown, yellow, grey with pink pokadots. Love this!!!! 🙏🏻☝️🕯💒💖
I wish they stopped Italy has become quite a dangerous place to live in thanks to these ''bridges'' (open borders) , you can't sit in the park peacefully, walk with your dog in the evenings etc....I can give you more examples....
That's the wonderful irony of this: open your heart to 'cultural enrichment' and prepare to pay the price. This project is bankrupt virtue signaling on a grand scale.
Load More Replies...*Me walking across the high five/praying(?) fingers* “This is a c**p bridge, I should have picked that folded flat one!” (But seriously this is a really cool idea)
Also I think it would look cool if they painted them super bright colors like hot pink, neon blue, etc
Load More Replies...Looks amazing! I was in Venice 2 years ago and saw the 'Support' installation by Lorenzo Quinn where the giant hands were coming out of Grand Canal to hold up a waterside hotel. Pretty cool to stand under them.
If you want to show cultures uniting you may not want to go all-white. Different sizes would also have been nice.
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