Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to Take Over Venice Island – RisePEI
The Isola di San Giacomo, a smallm, distant island off the coast of Venice, might be transformed into an arts area by collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. It will likely be the third area overseen by her, after ones in Turin and the Italian city of Guarene.
Final week, Re Rebaudengo revealed plans to show the area into what her basis labeled a “laboratory for ecological reflection.” She kicked off the initiative with a Jota Mombaça efficiency staged on San Giacomo that had been organized by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The island is presently dwelling to 3 powder magazines inbuilt 1810 by Napoleon, whose forces had destroyed an historical monastery on the island to make approach for them. These powder magazines at the moment are being transformed by Re Rebaudengo into areas the place artwork exhibitions and occasions will be held. As a part of the development course of, the island may even be restored, and new timber might be planted round buildings which have gone unused for 5 a long time.
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The Fondazione Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo stated it expects to finish building on the brand new area in 2024.
“I wish to suppose that, by the centuries, the completely different lives and features of this small island have been preserved within the soil and may now comeback to the floor as a supply of inspiration,” Re Rebaudengo stated in a press release. “I would really like San Giacomo to grow to be a degree of crossroads, of encounters and exchanges, turning into as soon as once more, as within the distant previous, a route between the waters and canals of the lagoon north of Venice, which in flip is linked with the world.
“Our ‘isolation’ on this quick strip of land is a transitive motion, a selection open to the mobility of water, to journeys, departures and landings,” she continued.
Along with 1,000 items of bijou and three,000 pictures, Re Rebaudengo owns greater than 1,500 up to date items. She has ranked on the annual ARTnews Prime 200 Collectors listing every year since 2003.
Her group, which she based in 1995, has grow to be recognized for mounting formidable up to date artwork showcases. She had at one level been planning to open a venue in Madrid, however in 2020, she canceled, citing “structural issues” concerned with the area wherein it was to be set.
