{"id":9872,"date":"2015-11-02T13:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insidevenice.it\/?p=9872"},"modified":"2022-02-25T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:23:49","slug":"venice-and-the-big-cruise-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidevenice.it\/en\/venice-and-the-big-cruise-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice and the Big Cruise ships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The twenty-seven highly dramatic photos, Venice and the Big Cruise ships<\/strong> by Gianni Berengo Gardin<\/strong>, represent an act of love to one of the most beautiful but also one of the most fragile cities in the world. The exhibition will take place until 6th January 2016 in the Olivetti Shop<\/a> in Saint Mark’s Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An intense act of love from this famous photographer from Liguria, who has collaborated with the most important European magazines and newspapers and is member of the agency Contrasto. He has decided to dedicate his exhibition to the city where his father was born and where he has lived since he was a child. A homage, which shot after shot, becomes evidence and, at the same time condemnation of what his “own” Venice is suffering due to the big cruise ships passing through the canal of Giudecca and the Saint Mark canal: a wound, which is daily inflicted to its enchanting beauty, a constant danger for people, buildings, but above all for its very delicate environmental balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He felt it a duty to document all this as: “seeing my Venice, destroyed in its proportions and transformed into a toy, one of its paper mach\u00e9 clones you can see in Las Vegas, deeply upset me”, explained Berengo Gardin, who has always been interested in witnessing his time, a photo reporter more than an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n