Global warming is a ticking bomb that we need to defuse before it explodes. To raise awareness about global warming Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn has built a monumental sculpture for the 2017 Venice Art Biennale.
Quinn is widely known for incorporating elements of the human body parts in his work. Titled Support, it depicts two massive hands, rising from a canal to support the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. It is a visual statement, that people need to repond to global warming appropriately before it’s too late.
“Venice is a floating art city that has inspired cultures for centuries,” Lorenzo Quinn told Halcyon Gallery. “But to continue to do so it needs the support of our generation and future ones, because it is threatened by climate change and time decay.”
Support evokes both hope in trying to hold up the building above the water and fear in highlighting the fragility of the situation.
“I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body,” the artist said. “The hand holds so much power – the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy.”
