RIVUS ALTUS, 10.000 visual fragments from Rialto bridge in Venice
More than 10,000 photos shot for over two years from the same position to create a new panorama from the Rialto Bridge in Venice. The exhibit will be hosted at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli in Venice, starting October 8th to November 5th. A crowdfunding campaign to support the exhibit is live on Kickstarter until August 19th.
- (1888PressRelease) July 19, 2016 - From October 8th to November 5th 2016 the photographic exhibition RIVUS ALTUS, 10.000 visual fragments from Rialto bridge in Venice will take place at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, an old monastery restored and equipped with the latest technology, located in the city centre of Venice, behind Gallerie dell'Accademia with direct overview on the Zattere quayside and on Giudecca Canal.
11.354 photo-fragments, 264 shooting hours, 15.963 people depicted. These are the numbers of Rivus Altus, a photographic exhibit that reassembles an innovative concept of the most popular Venice postcard: the view from Rialto bridge. An added value to the exhibit is provided by the Boga Foundation: Homini sculptures serie dialogues with the different sections, materializing the relation between the visitors and the people depicted.
Massimiliano Farina, milanese architect and photographer, looks into the definition of stereotype as a simplified and popular vision of a place. During his long-lasting stakeouts in the middle of the bridge he captures whatever happen, even if nothing does. This photographic project take the cue from a written work by Georges Perec, Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien (Paris, 1975) in which the author describes a square in Paris from several angles, writing down things that usually pass unnoticed.
"Venice has disappeared into its representations, becoming an impression of reliving what the eyes still have to see. The only place being visited today is a commonplace of what is there; reality has been overcome by its depiction" Predrag Matvejević
The stereotype of Venice perpetuates itself as a result of the collective urge to take a picture on the bridge. However, it's not unusual to meet someone who let himself be carried by the breathtaking view over Canal Grande. Massimiliano Farina succeeds in grasping this multifarious sensitive dimension, capturing with his camera every gaze and action of the people gathered around his vantage point.
Rivus Altus project is thus composed by two distinctive elements in continuous dialogue with each other: the Panorama and its observers.
The view over Canal Grande is a photographic mosaic composed of 78 fragments, a selection of the 11.354 pictures captured by the author, showing in detail the changing nature of the subject. Thanks to the countless possible combinations, the shattered stereotype of Venice is reshaped with unexpected results.
The author provides a complex vision of the panorama and follows the same approach to depict the "Rialto people". What they are experiencing is captured as a quick sequence of actions, thanks to the almost simultaneous shutter click of two different cameras joined together whit a metal clamp. Same subject, same scene, fixed at the same time by using two different cameras: different zoom, techniques, movements and time exposures. The fragments derived from the photo shots are linked in photography couples, diptychs, and printed in black and white. This chromatic choice has a figurative and symbolic meaning, helping the author to distinguish the observers point of view from his own, the panorama, preserving a dialogic connection.
HOMINI by BOGA
Completing the set-up, Boga's forged art establish an outstanding creative interconnection with the diptychs: through the Homini sculptures serie the observers become matter, a silent projection of the human being.
The Homino is "Rialto people", its very essence. With its thin, imprecise, fallible and raw border it looks over the horizon. Representation of thought and of daily life, it moves through the idea blueprint. Homini is dynamic in his staticity, a representation of the Bogas' conceptual Idea that goes beyond surrealism and expressionism.
SET-UP AND PERFORMANCE
The exhibition will be hosted in a 120 square meter room, located in a picturesque 15th century cloister. The set up will enhance the connection between the two elements of Rivus Altus project, giving them back a spatial relation.
The diptychs will be mounted on several panels and hung through the entire length of the room, suspended at visitors' height. Boga's Homini will be placed side by side with the diptychs, looking together at the panorama in front of them. Approaching the photo wall at the end of the room will make the visitors feel like joining the Rialto people on the bridge.
The reinterpretation of the famous venetian landscape by Massimo Farina will be mounted on a 7 meters long photo wall. 78 blocks of 20x27" photo paper will compose a colorful and always changing Panorama. Every sheet of a block will present different details of the same frame, thanks to the countless variations selected by the author. Visitors will be invited to participate in the continuing reworking of the view, each time revealing new details. During the photographic performance visitors will be allowed to take home one frame for free, raffling off one of the 78 frames.
Rivus Altus exhibit book will be available for sale during the exhibit, as well as reprints on traditional silver gelatin photo paper and on fine art 5x7" edition, mounted under luxury crystal acrylic glass and aluminium composite backing.
You can download the exhibition press kit and the press images at the following link: http://bit.ly/rivusaltus
THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN
Starting July 7th to August 19th, RIVUS ALTUS exhibit is live on Kickstarter. Backers' support will cover part of the costs for the location rent and for printing the photo wall and the dipthycs panels, helping to actually put the exhibit on: http://kck.st/29tTvn7
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