BTW – Biennale The Wave

Venice, Italy
Photo © Marco Zanta
Photo © Marco Zanta
Photo © Marco Zanta
Photo © Marco Zanta
Picture © C+S
Drawing © C+S
Photo © C+S
Architekci
C+S Architects
Location
Lido di Venezia, 30100 Venice, Italy
Year
2003

A wave of larch boards supported breaks against the Palazzo del Cinema in the island of Lido in Venice. It impresses a new sign on the venetian scene: a catwalk for the entry of actors and film directors as well as an organised space for photographers. Supported on a serie of steel struts, the wave is a catwalk that keeps the public near and far at the same time. Like the deck of a ship setting sail for a great adventure. The moment of the actors arrival is an explosive and magic one but it last a second as when the wave breaks itself on the beach, leaving a corrugated soil on the threshold between earth and water.

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