Wine, awarded in auction Ornellaia grape harvest 2019 lots for 302 thousand dollars

The online auction, hosted by Sotheby’s, of the lots of the Vendemmia d’Artista 2019 ended yesterday: Il Vigore. The precious bottles, dressed this year by Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, have been assigned to art and fine wine collectors, allowing them to raise the sum of 302,000 dollars. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to continue the important work of the Mind’s Eye program. Mind’s Eye is a set of tools capable of expanding accessibility to art through the use of the senses. As Richard Amstrong, director of the museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation explains, “With the continued support of Ornellaia, we will expand Mind’s Eye programs to a global audience with a focus on developing verbal descriptions in all of our museums. content for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection with translations into multiple languages. In addition, events in New York and online programs will continue to be available internationally. Looking to 2023, thanks to the proceeds from the auction, we will focus on creating Mind’s Eye content for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Projects that will continue in 2024 to grow the program by expanding resources and the public “. Ornellaia’s CEO Giovanni Geddes da Filicaja, is pleased to announce that he has renewed the collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum for others three years, “we are very excited to continue to support the growth of this special project we believe in. This global vision, today, has developed even more so that it is present in all the museums of the Guggenheim constellation: New York, Venice, Bilbao. “Among the precious lots put up for auction are the nine 6-liter Imperial unique 9-liter Salmanazar by Ornellaia Vendemmia d’Artista 2019 where the evolution of the concept of the relationship between man and earth is expressed through the sculptures.