On an unrelated note: The life-sized wooden parody of Charles Ray's monumental sculpture "Boy With Frog" that I posted about last Wednesday http://veneziablog.blogspot.it/2014/11/a-new-boy-with-frogs-takes-up-residence.html is no longer on the Punta della Dogana.
I located an article in the 14 November edition of La Nuova Venezia that identified the wood sculpture as a centerpiece of a protest against the exploitation of workers employed in the Italian culture and fashion industries: http://nuovavenezia.gelocal.it/venezia/cronaca/2014/11/14/news/sciopero-sociale-per-difendere-il-lavoro-sottopagato). The protesters who created and carried the sculpture entitled it a "Monument to the Precarious Worker."
I was unable to find any more recent article to explain who removed the sculpture from the Punta della Dogana or what has become of it.
That sky is a jaw dropper! And, I'm a little sad I shan't see the ersatz boy and frogs.
ReplyDeleteIt was one of Venice's winter wonders, Yvonne--and I'm afraid it was at its most dramatic before I was able to get into a position to take the above photo!
DeleteWell, the ersatz boy and frogs probably wouldn't have held up too well in any sense of the word, anyway, Yvonne.
Deletebeautiful sunset
ReplyDeleteIt seems sometimes the colder the weather gets the more dramatic the sunsets, Anna.
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