Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.

Posta em abismo is formed by the installation The sea you see will never be the sea I’ve seen which, like many works by Zaccagnini, is based on a twist or subversion of an established knowledge or practice: in this case, the artisanal tradition of putting ships inside bottles, a practice that goes back to the 18th century.

The so-called impossible bottles or puzzle bottles began to be made by sailors subject to long voyages, who made them as a pastime activity. Ships inside bottles are always triumphal vessels, caravels of conquistadors and explorers, or merchant or pirate ships, which emulate the ships of those who told the story of voyages of the so-called Age of Discovery.

Zaccagnini sought to represent another type of watercraft – rafts, like those used by some indigenous peoples, or those that might be constructed by a shipwrecked castaway. Zaccagnini’s rafts in bottles were also made by hand, one by one, based on found twigs.

The 200 bottles, now inhabited by rafts, come from a collection of empty bottles begun by the artist in 1998 and nurtured for 15 years. No two bottles are the same; they vary in tone and color intensity, in thickness and transparency of the glass, as well as the sort of mouth, the length of the neck, and the shape of the belly. Likewise, each and every raft is unique, custom made, by hand, from the paring down, matching up and tying together of many different twigs. For Zaccagnini, each raft inside each bottle is the news of a possible shipwreck or a possible rescue.