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It is a wonderfully chaotic place, loud.
And bursting with personality.
How did he do this?
What's real, what's not?
I feel divide.
I need to feed off activity.
I want people's senses to be engaged.
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Okay, how do we make this thing?
One of the things that puzzles me most about contemporary art making is why the people who often bring the ideas of an artist to life, the welders, the glassblowers, the people who cast metal or sculpt giant pieces of stone, aren't credited by name as they are at the end of a film.
Alongside that question is another how do you keep these often ancient and local artistic traditions relevant and alive?
The Venetian art connoisseur and entrepreneur Adriano Barengo has an answer to that.
For the past 25 years or so, he's been inviting contemporary artists like Tracey Emin, Louise Bourgeois, and most recently, AI Weiwei to translate their ideas into one of Venice, Italy's oldest traditions, glassmaking.
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