La Montagne de Venise

Conceived by Yona Friedman, the itinerary of the Montagne de Venise was a chance to develop direct participation with the citizenry for an alternative city experience.

La Montagne de Venise was the third stage of an architectural itinerary by Yona Friedman with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle in Italy, after the Vigne Museum for the Livio Felluga company in Friuli and No Man’s Land – belonging to everybody – in Loreto Aprutino.

The itinerary of the Montagne de Venise was a chance to develop direct participation with the citizenry and its main institutions for an alternative city experience. The language chosen by Friedman is that of fairy tales which gleans from popular imagination and binds the various Italian projects to date. Venice, with its theatrical, playful and carnivalesque tradition, is in perfect harmony with the project.

“Why not build a mountain in Venice?”: the proposal by Yona Friedman brings together irony and the knowledge that only a participatory architectural action can respond the Venetian dynamics. Building a mountain means changing the landscape, modifying the vision one has of a place, and enables a new point of view of what surrounds us.

Yona Friedman with Jean Baptiste Decavèle
La Montagne de Venise
curated by Chiara Bertola and Giuliano Sergio
promoted and coordinated by Zerynthia Contemporay Art Association

La Montagne de Venise

Conceived by Yona Friedman, the itinerary of the Montagne de Venise was a chance to develop direct participation with the citizenry for an alternative city experience.

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