Work of fourteen of the leading photographers in the world will be sold at auction in London in November, and all proceeds will go to the fund, which is financing the restoration of monuments of architecture and art floating city

ANTONIO HIRBES
Main Square Baldassare Longhena
From the series" Mad City ", Venice, 2011
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Fourteen of the leading artists from different countries donated their photographs for sale at auction Phillips de Pury & Company, proceeds from which will be directed to the fund, "Venice is in danger." auction will be held November 3 in London.

Artists were invited to create their own images of Venice in the framework of the "real Venice", which aims to attract significant funds needed to save the legendary city. To participate in the project are invited authors from different countries: Lynn Cohen (Lynne Cohen), Philip-Lorca di Cork (Philip-Lorca di Corcia), Antonio Hirbes (Antonio Girbés), Nan Goldin (Nan Goldin), Pierre Gonnor (Pierre Gonnord), Dionisio Gonzalez (Dionisio Gonzalez), Candida Hofer (Candida Höfer), Tiina Itkonen (Tiina Itkonen), Mimmo Dzhodis (Mimmo Jodice), Parchikov Tim (Tim Parchikov), Matthias Shaler (Matthias Schaller), Jules Shpinash (Jules Spinatsch), Robert Walker (Robert Walker), Hiroshi Watanabe (Hiroshi Watanabe).

For centuries, Venice has inspired intellectuals, writers and artists of his charming beauty. For the project "real Venice" the authors from different countries were invited to create a series of images of the photographed while one of the most fragile and vulnerable cities. The resulting photos are not only Venice in all its glory, but also in all its paradoxical and contrast - the photographers have addressed not only to the daily life of the inhabitants of the city, to its classical monuments and modern architecture, but also the subject of damage to Venice, an endless stream of tourists, and also the problem of rising waters in the Venetian lagoon.

now works created by such famous photographers as fourteen can be seen in the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in a special project for the Venice Biennale exhibition, "Real Venice." curator Helen Foster (Elena Foster), the exhibition catalog issued Publishing Ivorypress. In the advisory board of the project "real Venice" Anna Somers Cocks entered (Anna Somers Cocks), head of the foundation "Venice is in danger" and the founder of the publication The Art Newspaper; Helen Foster, the head of the publishing house Ivorypress, the organizer of a major exhibition at the Architecture Biennale in 2006, and as a collector, businessman and scientist, David Landau.

exhibition runs until 30 September, after which the selected works will travel to London, where it will display in the halls at Phillips de Pury Howick Place, and 3 November will go under the hammer at auction auction house dedicated to photography. Some pictures are available for purchase online at the project site www.realvenice.org . In January 2012 selected works of the exhibition "The real Venice" should go on a tour of the world's leading museums: it is organized by the department of international projects, the London Barbican Centre.

< p class = "mat1"> «To see Venice in a new way, we needed to contemporary art: for the salvation of the city can use this new creative energy", - believes Anna Somers Cocks.

Foundation "Venice is in danger" was created after the great flood of 1966, when the water level in the city rose by almost two meters. Since then, the Foundation spent millions on restoration of Venetian monuments, historic buildings and works of art. The Foundation's mission to ensure the preservation of cultural heritage of Venice : he is the guardian of the monuments, inform the public about the need to take certain actions, and collaborates with various organizations (eg, University of Cambridge), to aid in solving critical environmental, demographic, social and economic problems of "floating" city of the monument.

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

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