5 July - 26 November 2023
Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice
Curated by Daniela Ferretti with Dario Dalla Lana
Promoted by the Veneto Regional Museum Directorate and the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the City of Venice and Lagoon
Under the patronage of the Patriarchate of Venice
Detail:
1. Photography
Ugo Carmeni, Venice Mapping Time, 2023
Shot in Venice, 2020 - 2023
Edited in Venice, 2023
Edition of 5 + 2AP
67 photographic works:
nr. 7 100 x 150 cm
nr. 16 100x133 cm
nr. 4 133 x 100 cm
nr. 32 30 x 40 cm
nr. 8 28 x 42 cm
Printed in giclée, completed with a handmade wax finish and mounted on aluminium compound panels and wooden spacer frames.
2. Sound and moving-image installation
Ugo Carmeni, Venice Mapping Time, 2023
Sound design: Alessandro Gambato
Coding: Federico Poni
In the spirit of Ruskin, [Carmeni] has climbed the many restoration scaffoldings on the facades of Venetian churches and palazzos – observing, noting, analysing, mapping, and photographing before finally selecting, among the many pictures, the ones that compose his highly personal narrative. A dream-like pilgrimage scattered with traps and prodigies, wonders and nightmares, corroded and smooth surfaces, vertiginous and hyperbolic architectural views, uncanny and enticing allegorical personifications, extraordinary lapidaria and bestiaries. Through mind-opening details, Carmeni unfolds in front of our eyes an unexpected polyphony of semantic symbols that invites us to pay closer attention and explore a ‘middle world’.
Daniela Ferretti, curator
INSTALLATION VIEWS
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