The Tip of the Iceberg. Drawings by Francis Bacon

It is organized on occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale but it is a unique event with an extraordinary character; Cà Zenobio degli Armeni, Venice, seat of the Pavilion of the Syrian Arab Republic hosts an exhibition of drawings by Francis Bacon titled ‘The Tip of the Iceberg. Drawings by Francis Bacon’.
The exhibition – curated by the famous English art critic Edward Lucie-Smith and by Alberto Agazzani – shows a ècorpus’ of about 20 drawings on paper of various sizes, authentically signed by Francis Bacon which portray a gallery of monstrous human characters, typical iconography of the famous Irish painter who died in 1992.