25/08/2026
TheMerode | Exhibitions curated by Daniela Ferretti on the occasion of BRAFA Art Fair 2024
with works by Maurizio Donzelli and Ugo Carmeni
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The photographs originate from the documentation and mapping of the city’s architectural surfaces between October 2020 and March 2023,[...]. The photographic enlargements of these city fragments have been printed on cotton paper in large format. The prints have been hand-polished with several coats of wax to protect the pigments and bring out their vividness, and finally placed on aluminium panels mounted on wooden frames.[...]. Ugo Carmeni’s works look at Venice through the interpretive key of “mapping time”: the passing of time that changes the surfaces as it flows over them, but also the time of perception of the sculptures, architectures and colours of the lagoon city by those who experience it. To emphasize the close correlation between Carmeni’s photographic work and time, the title of each piece only indicates the instant in which the photo was taken, not its spatial co-ordinates: these details, isolated from their context, shed a new light on the continuity of surface and colour that constitutes the essence of Venetian architecture and urban design. - TheMerode
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