Artist Eun-Me Ahn Blesses and Baptizes Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s Venice Island Ahead of Its Debut as an Arts Center

As I neared my destination to an island in the northern part of the Venetian lagoon, about 30 minutes from the Giardini, I was among the first on my boat to spot a cloud of hot pink smoke rising up from the island. Our destination was the Isola di San Giacomo, which was recently acquired by ARTnews Top 200 Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo for her foundation and will be fully operational by the next Biennale.The tiny island—you could walk the perimeter in fewer than 10 minutes&mda