Rivus Altus | Variations XL78 | 312 shooting hours | CRONORAMA series are a VISUAL EXHAUSTION Photo Project | 2012-2019
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Max Farina recorded with his camera every variation of light and everything that happened, staying still for 312 hours at the same place: the centre of the Rialto Bridge, the most crowded and photographed place in Venice, facing the Grand Canal.
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Technique: Giclèe Fine Art Print, Plexiglas® Hard Coated + Plexiglas® XT White,Floating fragments, aluminum frame, 2017.
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Artworks Dimensions:
XL78 91,7x262,6 cm | N.78 fragments 18x12 cm each
M78 175,6x61,5 | N.78 fragments 12x8 cm each
XS78 123x47,2 | N.78 fragments 8x5,5 cm each
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Exhibition history
2016, Venice, “RIVUS ALTUS - 10.000 visual fragments from the Rialto bridge in Venice”, during the XV Biennale of Architecture in Venice (Venice Biennale) / 08 October – 27 November
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RIVUS ALTUS - The invention of the perfect landscape
11.354 photo-fragments
264 shooting hours on the bridge from 2013 to 2015
13.000 gondolas passed under the bridge
15.963 people portrayed
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Two years of stakeout (2013/2015) in the same place, night and day, with the aim to photograph changes of a landscape of the city through its views. Decomposing and recomposing, approaching or moving away thousands and thousands of fragments made of light, shadows, silence and noise the user invents what judged to be the panorama necessary to him, and for this perfect, extracting it from the possible 3,8x10 raised to 168
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Signature
Signed by artist + certificate of authenticity and hologram system