but not this one,
it is composed of 100,000 government-commissioned artwork stamps,
titled "Greetings from Venice",
the
paper mosaics were placed below a transparent floating floor, allowing visitors
to walk over the artwork,
located on
the fourth floor of the Fondaco
dei Tedeschi in Venice,
to achieve the mosaic Italian
artist Elisabetta
Di Maggio studied St.
Mark’s Basilica’s floor and Venetian palazzi and sorted 100,000 stamps by color
to prepare the designs,
the artist
then worked with a team of high school students to arrange the stamps in
complex patterns. “Greetings from Venice” was on view in autumn 2018,
you can take
a behind-the-scenes look at the process for “Greetings from Venice” on Irenebrination’s blog,
and explore more of Di Maggio’s other projects on her website, research and process documents via Irenebrination, 100,000 stamps, crikey those will fill a few albums when the exhibit is over!
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