“Building bridges” is undoubtedly the most ambitious project of the entire artistic career of Lorenzo Quinn, son of the famous actor Anthony and his second wife, the venetian costume designer IolandaAddolori.
“Support”, the gigantic hands holding Ca’ Sagredo, symbol of a distress call from the buildings of Venice, was the most photographed artwork during the last Biennale. Lorenzo Quinn is now offering a new monumental sculpture to Venice. A huge project, 15m tall and 20m long. Once again hands, six pairs, as main subject. The artwork, “Building bridges” (“ostruireponti” in Italian) was installed in the Arsenal of Venice and will be inaugurated during an exclusive event with a concert of Andrea Bocelli. A bridge as a symbol of unity and as the expression of human’s ambition and inspiration. The installation, at the center of his vision of art and the world, describes six universal values of humanity: friendship, faith, help, love, hope and wisdom. Each one of these values is represented by the act of the hands coming together in order to overcome differences and build a better world.
“The symbol of all that unites. Hands are at the center of my artwork because we do everything with them: we do good, we can do bad. We create art. We caress our children. I feel a responsibility to leave something to our children, this world that we borrowed from our parents in order to preserve it and possibly to make it better before returning it to our sons and daughters. Hands. We cannot act without them. And this time that we happen to live is a time in which there’s a need to work. Together. With our hands. To build something. Bridges, certainly. I make art that can be visible to all, to the people. Because for me art is a world heritage, without frontiers.”
Born in Rome in 1966, a childhood spent at the turn of Italy and USA. After a little experience as an actor, Lorenzo Quinn chose art and, in particular, sculpture, inspired by the great masters, such as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin. His artworks are exhibited in Doha, at the UN, at Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, in Singapore, in India, in Canada and in a large part of the European’s capital cities. A real sculpture of international scope.
Building bridges in Venice, city of international culture.
