Maxim Kantor, one of the world's best known Russian artists, painter and engraver, writer and essayist, returned to Venice with the exhibition 'Atlantis', a guest from June 1 to September 10 2013 at Palazzo Zenobio. In the halls of the palace, the curators Borovski Alexander, director of the Contemporary Art section of the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, and Cristina Barbano, curator and organizer of the Italian artist's projects, together with the artistic director of the Palace, Marco Agostinelli, present in a site-specific path the most recent production of the artist, who in 2012 in addition to important personal in Paris, Oxford and St. Petersburg has also held a major exhibition at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan.

In Venice, where every alternate day high and low tide, the artist recounts his vision of the current, and yet another phase of the crisis of Western civilization entered a phase of 'historical low tide': the sea that away is the image of the recession of civilization, the obvious metaphor of the sense of loss of our day. At low tide will inevitably follow high tide, powerful and menacing: revolutions, wars, storms. With his work, the artist expresses the dynamics of historical cycles: the sea and story time are cyclical and respond only to its own laws.