Stingel claims that most employees love the new schedule because it gives them more free time.
After Pinault's first Stingel purchase, Geuna took him to meet the Italian artist in his New York studio.
Chief Executive Officer Russell Stingel is doing some interesting tinkering with work schedules.
Instead, Stingel chose that spot for a painting of his friend Franz West, the Austrian artist who died last year.
On the top floor, among tiny figurative portraits of saints, is one larger painting that Stingel painted for the exhibition.
The other masterpiece on the first floor is a vast triptych that is the grandest manifestation of Stingel's silver abstract paintings.
Two years ago, when he and Palazzo Grassi Director Martin Bethenod began planning for it, they settled easily on Rudolf Stingel.
The Stingel exhibition at Palazzo Grassi is a mix of artwork belonging to Pinault, Stingel and a few other private collectors.
The most dominant motif of the exhibition is the Oriental carpet Stingel used to cover all of the floors and walls.
Pinault suggested hanging the piece in the palace's most majestic room one floor up overlooking the canal but Stingel didn't want such prominence.
Pinault cultivated a friendship with him and visited him in his studio in Merano, Stingel's hometown in the South Tyrol region.
The only painting on the ground floor is Stingel's self-portrait, nestled behind some marble columns near the boat-landing entrance to the palace.
As Pinault began to commission works from him, he would get a sneak peek of them and absorb Stingel's perceptions and wisdom.
Stingel made the painting specifically for the Palazzo Grassi exhibition, and Pinault visited him in Merano several times to see its progress.
Stingel hung it slightly askew so that the viewer feels off-kilter.
Pinault had been following Stingel's work for more than a decade, ever since Geuna, then director of Sotheby's Europe, called Pinault to say the artist was broke and needed money to produce a giant installation for a mid-career retrospective.
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