A new project that confirms Adriano Berengo’s creative vision and extraordinary ability to prompt a free-ranging dialogue with the world of contemporary art and design: Sam Baron’s Sacrum Unguentum transforms the interior of a historic former pharmacy into a laboratory. A set of “one-off pieces” in glass populate the shelves, the counter and the windows, among flowers, leaves, thorns and poisons that simultaneously seduce and disturb, highlighting nature’s ambiguous role as pleasant and terrible, precious yet as fragileas glass. Baron’s contemporary gaze on the ancestral art of glass interrogates the decorative aspects of its production in order to take up the ornamental details and cultural references
of this ancient art. A selection of sculptures will also be displayed at The St. Regis Venice.
