Cristina Stifanic

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ART CRITIC in DOCUMENTA 13// KASSEL - GERMANY, 2012

It's hard to imagine a novel picture of Venice. Even my father and I managed to take the same photograph of birds in the Plaza San Marco twenty-five years apart. It's equally difficult to fathom an original take on the Hollywood stars of yesteryear, to see Humphrey Bogart without his handsome grimace or James Dean without his doomed allure.

Despite these odds, Cristina Stifanic has paired postage stamps of Hollywood luminaries with old postcards showing unremarkable views of Venice. The results are mostly uneven but in a few instances, that old Hollywood magic happens, part mise-en-scène, part narrative suggestion. A 37-cent stamp of John Wayne looks like a giant movie poster on a high brick wall, surrounded by shuttered villas"” Venice as ghost town. A 42-cent stamp of Bette Davis places her at the top of a grand, hazy set of stairs, about to descend in all her glory. And then there's Audrey Hepburn, high up on the wall of a small courtyard, part movie poster, part religious vision.

It certainly isn't what the United States Postal Service had in mind when it designed these lim...

Master Degree in Computer Science and attended painting classes at the Academy of Applied Arts in Milan, Italy.