Hosting the 14th International Architecture Biennale, titled Fundamentals, Venice now offers even more photographic occasions. Beyond the exposition itself, various installations are placed around the city, producing both a dialogue and a contrast between the art works and the surrounding environment. As did “Boy with Frog” by Charles Ray until 2013, now it is “The Sky Over Nine Columns” by Heinz Mack playing this role. Nine columns, seven meters high and covered with a golden mosaic, stand in front of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. They represent both a manifestation of the human being, standing upright, and a solid connection between the ground and the sky, but also an homage to the ancient local craftsmanship, with the golden mosaic. And of course they add some temporary eccentricity to the venetian skyline.
Location: San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
What to shot: San Giorgio Maggiore itself deserves more than a picture, with its tiny harbor, a renaissance church, a Benedictine monastery, but it also offers from its “piazzetta” a good vantage point towards Venice, in particular St. Mark’s Square and the lagoon across.
Ideal time to shot: I prefer to be at San Giorgio at sunset, when the light illuminates the Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Campanile sideways.
Gear: From wide angles to teles.
How to get there: Public transport water bus stations S. Giorgio (line 2).
Coordinates: 45°25′45″N 12°20′35″E
Absolutely marvelous for this week’s topic. Marvelous photography! 🙂
It looks so surreal!
Great wide angle composition, Bruno! The eye is driven through the blocks to the background buildings.
Grazie Stefano, it is exactly the effect I was looking for! Thank you for stopping by! 🙂
Surreal!
Amazing. This picutre looks like graphic art, but of course, it is a real life photo
Lovely shot! Those clouds are stunning!
Stunning!
One of the best photo’s I have seen for this challenge. Venice is such the perfect place for ‘Contrasts’.
Exactly, especially thanks to the many art installations! Thank you for stopping by! 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous! This is a great shot!
Very beautiful! The perfect contrast!
Great photo for this challenge.
Dramatic and awesome:)
Beautiful shot!
I am a bit late but wanted to say thanks for the follow. Have a wonderful week.
Congratulations! I have chosen your post to be featured on Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge.
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Thank you Cee. I am really glad about it, and will of course try and do my best to partecipate to your forthcoming challenges. Thanks for all the Fun and the inspiration! 😉
Gorgeous! And I just read about the Doge’s palace in Dan Brown’s “Inferno”. 🙂 Great shot.
Thank you sheketechad! I have not read it yet, but it is on my bucket list 😉
Love it!
Thanks! 😉
Great one!
Lucky you, to be in Venice so regularly! My dream city —
It is already quite eccentric, no? So it doesn’t exactly need more, but then again, it is a city given to excess!
Lovely photo of a golden idea.
Hi Touch2Touch, I’m really lucky because I was born in Venice! I wish you can visit my city again soon! Thanks for stopping by and for your comment! Ciao! 🙂
Superb composition!
Absolutely gorgeous! Generally I’m not into mixing old and new architecture, but sometimes the results are stunnigly interesting!
Hi Leya, I totally agree with you! Thank you for stopping by! 🙂
Gorgeous photos!!! Asolutely lovely and vivid colors!
That is nice! Thank you for the like of my post “Zig Zag”.
I got a similar shot in Venice last week, Bruno, and was in Bled a few days earlier. Oh, and I took your advice and got the Ruyi of Venice book, too. We did a four hour adventure, and loved it. Wish we’d had time to do more. Thanks for the tip!
Hi Jaspa!! I’m really happy you liked the Ruyi book, it’s great to visit Venice in a different way! I hope you enjoyed your time in Europe, I’ve seen some beautiful pictures on your blog and I’m looking forward to seeing some more! Ciao! 🙂
You’ve got a great eye. Enjoying how you frame your images to make your (visual) point.
very nice. Live the golden mosaic. Looks like a skyscape.
Fabulous framing and composition, but you know that already, Bruno 🙂 Oh yes, the colour scheme is irresistible as well..
really interesting photo. I loved the sky in the background and the golden pillars.
Superb – wish they’d still been there last week!
Thank you Paul! It was an exposition of the Architecture Biennale 2014 and it was in Venice until the 23th of November! We will wait for the next Biennale to come! 🙂 🙂
Yes – I saw it across the basin during the summer, but didn’t get the chance to visit then, more’s the pity!