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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice
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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Following up on his monumental sculpture for the 2017 Venice Biennale, Support, artist Lorenzo Quinn has returned to the city with yet another phenomenal work. This time, Lorenzo built six pairs of hands joining over the historic Arsenale. At almost 50 feet (15m) high and 65 feet (20m) wide, Building Bridges is a piece that celebrates unity and is a stunning addition to the city as it hosts the 58th Venice Biennale.

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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“Building Bridges is about taking action and cultures uniting for a common good”

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“My work in Venice wasn’t finished with Support, my previous sculpture,” Lorenzo told Bored Panda. “In fact, it’s a trilogy. Support was meant to encourage us to open your eyes and Building Bridges is about taking action and cultures uniting for a common good. The third piece (which will be unveiled after 2 years)… Well, you’ll just have to wait and see but I can tell you that it won’t involve any hands.”

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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“The human hands fascinate me because through them, I am able to spread very direct, universal messages. Plus, I’m Italian, we speak with our hands”

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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“Building Bridges consists out of 6 individual bridges: wisdom, hope, help, faith, friendship, and love”

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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“I wanted to represent the 5 continents and the sixth one – love – bringing them all together”

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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“In numerology, 6 is the number of love”

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

Image credits: Lorenzo Quinn

“The engineering was crazy,” Lorenzo said. “We had little time to change the designs to fit the new location given to us just 5 weeks before the inauguration of the piece, but we made it happen thanks to an amazing team.”

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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The location for Building Bridges is a special one, although it wasn’t Lorenzo who had to decide on it. Nonetheless, the artist said that it turned out just right and has even become a destination point. “It’s also interesting that in the Arsenale, they built the boats that traveled the world and opened commerce between Venice and the Far East, bridging cultures.”

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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People had a lot to say about this stunning sculpture

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

Giant Hands Reaching For Each Other Becomes The Newest Monumental Sculpture In Venice

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A pity he didn't value the architecture and overall look of Venice. This just looks out of place. Place them in a large city with skyscrapers.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree that it's not in keeping with the architecture of Venice, but it's still an interesting looking piece.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The stark white is not indicative or representative of any skin tone I know. I think the use of the stark white is a fine way to not connect to any race in particular (if he used different shades of skin tone, no doubt not all of them would be covered under 12 types and more complaints would ensue) and painting them different colours seems less visually striking than the white, IMO.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A pity he didn't value the architecture and overall look of Venice. This just looks out of place. Place them in a large city with skyscrapers.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree that it's not in keeping with the architecture of Venice, but it's still an interesting looking piece.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The stark white is not indicative or representative of any skin tone I know. I think the use of the stark white is a fine way to not connect to any race in particular (if he used different shades of skin tone, no doubt not all of them would be covered under 12 types and more complaints would ensue) and painting them different colours seems less visually striking than the white, IMO.

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