Saype and the new «fresco on grass» in the Grand Canal

At the Venice Biennalethere’s a large pontoon – those huge barges that are used in the Lagoon to transport goods – which sails in the Canal carrying around a work of art made of earth, fragments of marble, rennet and coal.

IS Saype’s latest gimmickborn Guillaume Legros, 33, energy and sympathy to sell combined with a strong environmental awareness and an uncommon talent: knowing how to reproduce, starting from a small photograph, frescoes on land in large, indeed very large, formed.

It has been inventing for about ten years his own technique which in a short time has included it by right among the land artist best of his generation: Saype creates “frescoes on the grass” from great emotional and visual impact and give it low environmental impact. “Before developing my technique, I did thousands of tests and read dozens of books – he tells us while we are on Tower A of the Venice Arsenal, from which we spot the pontoon he designed -: the pigments I use are all natural And I am the powder of white marblethe coal which among other things makes the land on which I draw even more fertile, and the rennet which acts as a glue “.

Look at him here, with his good boy face, at the end of a feat that, in World Earth Day and in the opening days of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale it is configured as a new, exceptional stage of the project Beyond Walls that the artist carries on with Lavazza time ago.

The target? Drawing “the greatest human chain in history” that from Turin to Colombia, from the desert to the lagoon reminds us of the importance of trust and mutual support.

Source: Vanity Fair

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