*THE FALLING GARDEN* (breathtaking!)
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By Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger
Falling Garden
San Staë church on the Canale Grande
50th Biennial of Venice, 2003
The Doge (Mocenigo) needed a church so as to be able to have a monumental tomb built for himself, the church (San Staë) needed a saint so as to be able to be built, the saint (San Eustachio) needed a miracle so as to be pronounced a saint, the miracle needed a stag in order to be seen, and we built the garden for the reindeer.
The visitors lie on the bed above the doge’s gravestone, and the garden thinks for them.
Components: Plastic berries (India), cow pads (Jura), waste paper (Venice), baobab seeds (Australia), beech, elder and magnolia branches (Uster), thorns (Almeria), nylon blossoms (one-dollar-shop), pigs’ teeth (Indonesia), seaweed (Seoul), orange peel (Migros shop), fertilizer crystals (home grown), pigeons’ bones (San Staë), silk buds (Stockholm), cattail (Ettiswil), cats’ tails (China), celery roots (Montreal), virility rind (Caribbean), wild bore quills (zoo), banana leaves (Murten), rubber snakes (Cincinnati).
junjaree
WOW ….NOTHING TO SAY
H M Bascom
Mesmerizing and beautiful.
Caroline Evans...
Incroyable!
linaji
I am going!! wonderful share thank you!
helene ruiz
absolutely incredible!
cheetaah
Greta information, had no idea about it, Thanks.
kipishiux
It is just awesome! Looks really breathtaking… I wish to be there… Great instalation!!
Mariam Muradian
If I were in this place, I would refuse to leave.
RLHall
How did I miss this?! You know Mariam,I think that not all of your posts come through my watchlist! This is magical, so breathtaking! Oh,to go there would be like being in fairyland! Thanks for sharing! xxxxxxxx