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St. Michael’s Columns No.1 - Limited Edition of 6 Photograph

Arepo Films

United Kingdom

Photography, Black & White on Paper

Size: 16 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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This picture is part a new collection of prints which depict the ancient Tuscan city of Lucca. The walls encircling the historic centre have remained intact since their foundation, even as Lucca has expanded and modernised. Its monuments still present a series of enigmatic sculptures and inlays whose masterful craftsmanship seems to challenge the passing of the ages.The images featured in the collection have unexpectedly evolved from an experimental 16mm short film, La Città del Silenzio. The ‘silent city’ of Lucca is the chosen subject with which to explore the continuous thread of time that links what we have with what will be. This is why the chosen media is film; it will arguably survive the modern digital technologies and therefore challenge the corrosion of time itself. The analogue feel is reinforced through the use of mordançage: this is an alternative photochemical process that alters silver gelatine to give to selected frames a degraded effect. Eventually, the most altered frames of the short film are blown-up to 35mm and hand printed in limited edition on fibre paper, to effectively create a collection of etchings. Here, figurative and abstract pictures merge to explore the contrast between preservation and decay. Everything becomes quite overturned. Each initial frame is converted into a disruptive chaotic moment; anything can happen now it seems. Quite a startling and violent series of images suddenly appear. That is how change can happen: this a potent iconography for our present times.

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Photography:Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:16 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

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Arepo is an Italian filmmaker based in London since 2002. He started his career as an illustrator in Treviso (Italy) and evolved into a video artist creating animated scenes for live theatre and opera productions like Hymnus at Maribor National Theatre (Slovenia), La Fanciulla del West at Opéra de Limoges (France), Rigoletto at Teatro Auditorio in Almeria (Spain), La Traviata at Effetto Venezia and Tremamondo at Teatro Goldoni, Livorno (Italy). In the UK he produced, filmed and edited several short films in 16mm and 35mm including Contemplazione, The Bucolic Land of Peccioli, Sugar and L’Immobilità Trafigge. Festival selection includes Euroshorts, Analogica and Short Film Corner at the Festival de Cannes. His 16mm works have been screened at the Estorick Collection, no.w.here lab and the Cinema Museum in London. Arepo is currently working on his debut feature film The Isle of Life.

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