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- Part of a historical building in Venice’s most famous square is opening to the public for the first time in centuries.
- The second floor of the building, which is called the Procuratie Vecchie, is now open as a modern arts center.
- The gallery will help cement Venice as a year-round arts-focused destination.
One of Venice’s most historical buildings is getting a new lease on life as a modern arts center. The second floor of the Procuratie Vecchie, a building running along one side of St. Mark’s Square, is now open to the public for the first time in 500 years in its new form as the San Marco Arts Centre (SMAC).
Venice is already a hub for contemporary art with its international biennale, but SMAC aims to do something that doesn’t exist in the city’s arts landscape: be a kunsthalle, a space that mounts regular temporary exhibitions but isn’t constrained by a specific curatorial focus or theme. “We want to be flexible, dynamic and reactive to what’s happening in the world,” co-founder David Gramazio told Travel + Leisure. That’s why SMAC isn’t limiting itself to modern art, but will also exhibit architecture, fashion, photography, and film.
It’s kicking off its program at the same time as this year’s Architecture Biennale with two architecture-themed solo shows, one a retrospective of the Austrian-Australian architect Harry Seidler—dubbed “the high priest of modernism”—and the other the first international exhibition of the pioneering landscape architect Jung Youngsun, known for being the first Korean woman to earn the title of land development engineer.
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