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Italian Art Lovers Have An Animal Attraction

Where: Venice, Italy
December 23, 2008 at 9:30 AM | by amandak | 2 Comments

We're all for getting a bit cultural on our travels but perhaps the latest exhibition planned for the Galleria d'arte Giudecca in Venice is taking art a gallop too far.

Turns out that this Italian gallery is planning a spring exhibition of the works of a new artist... who happens to be a horse. As you'd expect, these paintings seem to belong to the abstract genre and aren't exactly what we'd want on our wall, but apparently there are buyers out there. It gets better: The horse's owner reckons the animal could be a reincarnation of someone like Monet.

Come on. We thought art galleries are serious businesses, but these guys seem to be just, well, horsing around.

Related Stories:
· Cholla Gets Venice Exhibition [Telegraph]
· Venice Travel coverage [Jaunted]
· Art Galleries coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: Telegraph]

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  1. Victor Ozols

    Jaunted Editor

    Horsefeathers

    Somewhere out there, a tremendously talented yet overlooked human painter is reading this and then crawling slowly onto a window ledge.
    December 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM
  1. amandak

    Jaunted Member

    Or ...

    ... on the other hand, this talented but overlooked painter is taking a photograph of a horse in front of one of their paintings and passing it off as animal art
    December 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM

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