Guggenheim Foundation

"When businessman François Pinault bought Palazzo Grassi in 2005, he approached Antoine Bernheim to ask him to intercede with Cardinal Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, because he had set his sights on the tip of the Customs House. Two years after taking over the Grassi Palace from the Agnelli family, the Breton industrialist obtained this legendary place in Venice, also coveted by the Guggenheim Foundation."

"Two years after taking over the Grassi Palace from the Agnelli family, the Breton industrialist will obtain this mythical place in Venice, also coveted by the Guggenheim Foundation. "A haunted place. A carousel of ghosts," describes Bernard-Henri Lévy, who considers the industrialist from Côtes-d'Armor as his second father. "François Pinault, during the opening two years ago of the Palazzo Grassi, displayed his own skull radiographed by Piotr Uklanski. Here, at the Customs of the Sea, he shows the ghosts that made a storm there. The Carpaccio of the Ten Thousand Crucifixions on Mount Ararat, resurrected by the Chapman brothers in their evocation of Auschwitz and Nazism.""