Veni Etiam #1
€800.00
2022
5 colors handmade screenprint
Fedrigoni Materica gesso paper 360 gr.
100 x 62 cm (39,3 x 24,4 in.)
Edition of 100
Signed and numbered by the artist
Where did Venice come from? How and why does it exist? What was its true origin, even before it came into the world? What is its primordial element? Water. Coming from the need to control this first natural element came another. Wood. Water and wood provided the unique combination that allowed Venice to become the Serenissima. Venice would not have come into existence if the Venetians had not manipulated these two elements with the utmost respect, bringing the lagoon and the mountains to its north and beyond into mutual dependence. Renato D'Agostin unites these two elements with his photography, finding that glimmer of light in a reflection where the static and dynamic interact.
Unlike in painting, the photography in this project seeks to capture the unpredictable, aiming at generating a controlled chaos of form that can only exist when the two elements in question come into contact in the lagoon.
Sometimes the shapes in the water become wood grains; sometimes the reflected wood suggests a landscape of islands in the lagoon; sometimes they reflect like Venetian glass... but in the end, it is and will always be water. As a characteristic, water is “constantly changing and yet always the same.” The eternal return: Veni Etiam.
The idea for the screenprint was born out of a desire to celebrate the collaboration between The Venice Venice Hotel and the artist to whom R25, Veni Etiam Loft, is dedicated. Veni Etiam #1 was crafted by Fallani Venezia, an artisan screen printing workshop in operation since 1968 in the heart of the city of Venice. Fallani produces high-quality prints with technical expertise and sensitivity, managing to interpret and visually translate the varied expressive languages of painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, street artists, graphic artists, and designers. In 2018, Gianpaolo Fallani was awarded a MAM (“Master of Arts and Crafts”).