When I was child I thought that Venice were surrounded by deep sea, a sort of ocean around the old city, but a day I saw the bottom of the lagoon emerge and Venice somehow lost his image, a bit childhood disappointment.





Everybody knows that corona virus arrived in Italy therefore one has to be careful about, but Venice is an irresistible city : here the masked painters at work.
All the famous Venetian museums closed.
Banksy in Venice. (Ponte San Pantalon, near Campo Santa Margherita).
the form disappears but the root is eternal
peggy guggenheim collection, venice
photography by rinaldo rasa, december 2003
It is a strange way what image surprises the flow of time or better the root of time. First of all a newspaper clipping from April 5, 1993 reproducing a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi titled “Jael and Sisera”. The scene hits me.
During this December the Municipality of Venice created the Exhibit “About Klimt. Judith, heroism and seduction”. I went to the exhibit and I see the painting by Jacopo Amigoni (a venetian painter of the eighteenth century) titled “Jael kills Sisera”.
The gear of my mind remind me the picture of twenty five years ago. The action made by Jael is very crude: a nail hammered in a human head but both the scene painted by Artemisia and Jacopo are not an horror movie shot. Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi is a bit too much calm and Jacopo Amigoni shows a bit of ironic way how hammering a nail in a man. Oh, I can’t resist hence I took a picture of the Amigoni’s painting. When at home I see that my photographic shot hides the hammer. I can’t believe that the digital camera (as a image robot) wished erasing the hammer.
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Peggy Guggenheim buried here and there the babies.
photography by rinaldo rasa, venice december 2003
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Saturday December 31, 2016
Rinaldo Rasa, selfportrait mirrored behind
and selected pictures taken on March 4, 2016 at Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Venice.
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(Sunday December 18, 2016)
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