Day 24

I apologise for this post being so late but I’ve been very busy!

I had to work until 11pm today because there was an event at the PGC and I was one of the few who were chosen to work. The Capi bought us some pizza and ice cream as a thank you for staying which I very much enjoyed!

It was a really fun night because the people from the event just stayed up on the terraced so we were able to just sit in the garden and chat. The garden is beautiful at night with all of its neon lights!

I was up very late after the event because I had to finish off my seminar ready for tomorrow!

Here's a picture of the garden that I found on the PGC website

During the day I was just guarding which was pretty cool because there were some very nice visitors and gave some of them a mini tour.

I realised that I have spoken mostly about paintings at the PGC so here are some of the sculptures in the rooms I guarded today:

PC2

'Developable Surface' byAntoine Pevsner 1941

This sculpture is pretty impressive because it was constructed by welding individual bronze rods together to get these curves. It must have taken ages!

PC3

'Woman Walking (Femme qui marche)' by Alberto Giacometti 1936

This sculpture by Giacometti is very different from his sculpture in the room 'Woman with Her Throat Cut', which he made four years before this one. I think this is a very beautiful and serene piece. It's the original plaster therefore making it the most fragile of works in the collection so we have to make sure no one gets too close to it!

PC4

'Sculptures after sketches by Picasso' by Egidio Costantini 1964

I think these are really cute. They're exhibited in front of the window in Pegeen's room which lets sun light shine through them and you get the back-drop of the Gran Canal behind them

Matteoli

'Development of a Bottle in Space' by Umberto Boccioni 1912

This is another of Boccioni's sculptures in the Matteoli Collection. After creating his 'Unique Form of Continuity in Space', he wanted to show that he can bring movement to even the stillest objects such as a bottle. I think it works.

Terrace

'The Angel of the City' by Marino Marini 1948

This sculpture is out on the terrace and is very popular with the visitors. There are so many funny stories about this piece from Peggy and others but I feel too embarrassed to write about them on here! As you can probably imagine the stories center around a certain part of his body and I don't think I can bring myself to write about it (I don't want to bring the reputation of my blog down!)

Here is a picture of me with him :)