The Hermitage opened doors to Venice: in the General Staff established piles and the planked footway reminding of aqua alta

In the General staff of the State Hermitage the project Anatoly Pavlovich Belkin "Carpaccio, high water" opened on August 1. In a big empty hall with a high ceiling (this hall call "a red transformer") — huge, in all wall, the slightly opened doors. The viewer as if looks for them to see a picture. "It is the project about closeness, inaccessibility — Nikiforova Maria, the head of department of intermuseum communications of the Hermitage tells. — Anatoly Pavlovich Belkin walked on Venice, went on churches, enjoyed art, but desirable idea to it did not come. And next day, when it left, Venice...