REMOVED: The Boy with a Frog at Punta della Dogana (Dorsoduro - Venice)
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Two-metre tall sculpture of a boy holding a frog, by the American artist Charles Ray, is from June 2009 one of photographer's targets at Punta della Dogana - the tip of the Dorsoduro peninsula in Venice. (WM is only history from May 3, 2013)
Waymark Code: WM7CBD
Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 10/04/2009
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The eight-foot-tall sculpture of a boy holding a squirming frog was commissioned to sit at the tip of the Punta della Dogana, between the Grand and the Guidecca canals in Venice. The work, by the California artist Charles Ray, is a much-loved landmark, photographed daily by scores of tourists, and was to have celebrated its fourth anniversary there next month. But the city, which controls the spot, plans to remove it on Tuesday and replace it with a reproduction of the 19th-century lamppost that formerly stood there.
May 3, 2013 - New York Times [link]
Punta della Dogana, the tip of the Dorsoduro peninsula at Venice's new contemporary art space Dogana di Mare, acquired in June 2009 new theme for talks a photographing — a brand new shiny white sculpture of a boy holding a frog. The statue is work of the American artist Charles Ray.
Charles Ray (born 1953) is a Los Angeles-based sculptor. He is known for his strange and enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer’s perceptual judgments into question in jarring and unexpected ways. Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times wrote that Ray’s "career as an artist…is easily among the most important of the last twenty years". He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.
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