| Event Name: | Real Venice |
| Description: | For centuries, Venice has inspired intellectuals, writers and artists with its ravishing beauty, riches and strangeness. Now, in a major exhibition, fourteen internationally renowned artists have created a series of meaningful and original photographic images of Venice, perhaps the most photographed but seriously threatened city in the world. The resulting images show Venice in all its beauty, but also in all its paradoxes and contrasts. As well as addressing the everyday life of the city’s inhabitants, its iconic monuments and modern architecture, the photographs capture the ravages wrought by mass tourism and the rise of the lagoon water level.
The artists are: Lynne Cohen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Antonio Girbés, Nan Goldin, Pierre Gonnord, Dionisio Gonzalez, Candida Höfer, Tiina Itkonen, Mimmo Jodice, Tim Parchikov, Matthias Schaller, Jules Spinatsch, Robert Walker and Hiroshi Watanabe.
All of the works in Real Venice have been donated by the artists to be sold in aid of Venice in Peril.
In addition, selected works from the artists’ portfolios will be sold at auction as part of the Phillips de Pury Photographs Sale on 3 November 2011. These will be on view at Phillips de Pury Howick Place from 27 October - 3 November 2011.
The remaining works are available to purchase online at www.realvenice.org.
The exhibition has been curated by Elena Foster, founder of Ivorypress and mounted by the Venice in Peril Fund.
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| Type of Event: | Photography Events |
| Event Agenda: | 11 October - 11 December
10.00-18.00, until 20.00 Thursdays
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| Event Location: | Somerset House Trust |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Cultural Center |
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| Directions: | Embankment Galleries
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| Event Start Date | 11-Oct-11 |