Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Normally Mosaics Floor Are Made Of Tiles,

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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