The prerogative of OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installations, is the ‘art’ of catching the visitor unawares along the avenues and in the Hotels of Lido di Venezia with an immensely rich selection of artistic works that are mostly ‘site specific’. The show, as conceived by Paolo De Grandis, uses an exhibition strategy with an undeniably high impact to overcome the routine rhetoric incumbent even in the undercurrents of the more ‘fringe’ circuits. The operation not only experiments the use of artists from all over the world who, in a climate of mutual exchange, give shape to a highly striking exhibition itinerary, but also exploits the enchanting green parks animated by the procession of celebrities at the Cinema Festival. OPEN is a pioneering stimulus that presents art by metaphorically playing it on expressive strings, poised between form and space and above all in the visual dimension, to reveal the positive sense of individual and collective advancement in interactive artistic experience.