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Peliti's Hypervenezia on display at Palazzo Grassi

2021-09-03T08:58:30.798Z


The 'fish' shape of the city in 400 black and white photos (ANSA) "What is shown to us is a sort of reality beyond reality" says the director Bruno Racine, in front of about 400 black and white images of Venice which, one attached to the other, make up an uninterrupted line that winds along the walls of Palazzo Grassi, one of the two lagoon locations of the Pinault Collection, reopened to the public after six months of work with an exhibition, "Hypervenezia", ​​


"What is shown to us is a sort of reality beyond reality" says the director Bruno Racine, in front of about 400 black and white images of Venice which, one attached to the other, make up an uninterrupted line that winds along the walls of Palazzo Grassi, one of the two lagoon locations of the Pinault Collection, reopened to the public after six months of work with an exhibition, "Hypervenezia", ​​from 5 September to 9 January 2022, a tribute to a city that celebrates the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. The exhibition, divided into three sections - one is a video installation with over 3,000 photos accompanied by the music of Nicolas Godin -, presents for the first time to the public part of the "Venice Urban Photo Project" started and created since 2006 by Mario Peliti, Roman architect-publisher with house inGiudecca island, aimed at systematically mapping Venice with its photographs, with the aim "of collecting the largest and most organic archive of images of the city ever created".

In 15 years, Peliti has made about 12,000 images, but the photographic survey of Venice should end in 2030 - a digital fund of the project will be created at the Central Institute for Catalog and Documentation and the Archaeological Superintendence. Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan area of ​​Venice - and never would have thought of showing them to the public: "since we talked about this exhibition I have not slept anymore". All photos are and will always be taken with the same shooting mode: black and white, without cast shadows and without people. Same goal for horizontals, another for verticals. Precisely the absence of shadows and people actually creates in the viewer a sense of estrangement, a restlessness about what is shown, about a reality that may seem fiction.It is not a Venice with the square, the calli and the squares empty of people due to the pandemic and the 2020 lockdown that was captured by Peliti; is a reinterpretation of the historic center, in its fish-shaped image, a real city, made up of a sequence of houses, palaces, canals, infrastructures intentionally immortalized lifeless since 2006.

"The immersive exhibition Hypervenezia - explains curator Matthieu Humery -, through the installation of a long sequence of images and the reconstruction of a 'photographic map' (900 geo-localized images), invites us to ask ourselves once and for all if photography is not first of all, or even, a fiction, even when it scrupulously translates the real. A hypothesis and at the same time an aesthetic and poetic gesture ". The prefix "Hyper" at the title of the exhibition indicates that we need to go further. This empty Venice, then, in the words of the creator of the project, becomes a cry of anguish, a warning against the progressive decline of inhabitants, in front of buildings full of history that risk losing their soul, those who live there.

Source: ansa

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