2024-05-04T17:47:19-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150306839/edoardo-tresoldi-s-installation-monumento-opens-the-chipperfield-restored-procuratie-vecchie-with-a-timely-message-on-fragility Josh Niland 2022-04-14T12:30:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d2/d21a5569eafc7e8e0ed37b123e5d9379.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>To coincide with the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150031764/david-chipperfield-to-restore-venice-s-procuratie-vecchie-that-s-been-closed-for-centuries" target="_blank">long-awaited public opening</a> of Venice&rsquo;s iconic Procuratie Vecchie, Italian artist <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/150181049/tresoldi-studio" target="_blank">Edoardo Tresoldi</a> has produced an installation that helps highlight the mission and function of its newly reclaimed space.</p> <p>Titled &lsquo;Monumento&rsquo; and taking as its backdrop the 16th-century monumental staircase restored by <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/3821/david-chipperfield-architects" target="_blank">David Chipperfield Architects</a> as part of its five-year renovation project, the installation presents a subversion of the traditional thinking and rhetoric that surrounds monuments worldwide.&nbsp;</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e4/e40bafa9847e07ce23632ba1d17d3967.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e4/e40bafa9847e07ce23632ba1d17d3967.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Image &copy; Roberto Conte</figcaption></figure></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0b/0bc7b19757c4fd664523517f6793ebf2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0b/0bc7b19757c4fd664523517f6793ebf2.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Image &copy; Roberto Conte</figcaption></figure></figure><p>Using his standby wire mesh material, Tresoldi was able to replicate past installations in New York and Abu Dhabi using the column itself as a kind of 50-foot-high metaphorical guidepost standing between societal values and contemporary life. Developed in collaboration with architect Carlotta Franco and with support from GICO Studio, the wrapped column is also meant to be as much in dialog with the space around it as it is expressive of a...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/150031764/david-chipperfield-to-restore-venice-s-procuratie-vecchie-that-s-been-closed-for-centuries Justine Testado 2017-10-05T13:58:00-04:00 >2022-04-14T12:30:49-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/32/328kdbe3lndxfuuh.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Once the renovation is complete, the four-storey building will be used as a venue for art exhibitions, installations and seminars that will be open to the public, as well as a philanthropic institution to help vulnerable people including refugees...any old material removed from the building will have to be taken away in barges along Venice&rsquo;s canals, while new material will have to be brought in the same way.</p></em><br /><br /><p>David Chipperfield will lead the painstaking renovation of the&nbsp; monumental Procuratie Vecchie in Venice's St. Mark's Square. When the project is complete in 2020, the building will be accessible to the public for the first time in some 500 years.&nbsp;</p>