The creative inspiration of this etching was born in Venice, in the church of San Zanipolo, a vast sanctuary where the glories of the Serenissima rest. The horizontal format of the copper plate develops a vertical architecture ; the sky, reduced to a white square at the top, becomes the focal point where all the directions converge, thus creating a dizzying perspective. If the composition initially attracts our gaze, it is the details that reveal the deepest images. In a path that goes from one floor to another and through a series of loggias, monuments and altars, the eye will see emerge « the human shadows ». A chance to take flight to an imaginary world.
Copper plate: 543 mm x 200 mm (base x height), 2019 Etching/drypoint on Hahnemühle paper, black ink Charbonnel, printed on a chalcographic press by André Beuchat, paper size : 700 x 500 mm 3 trial proofs (e.e.) signed and numbered I/III- III/III + 30 signed and numbered copies 1/30 – 30/30
