In his book Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso claims that Venice "is the only place where reflections are more numerous than things themselves."
I'm not so sure this is true, but it lends itself easily to a title for a post. Though in fact there are two places represented in these images, Venice and Burano--a distinction which I'm pretty sure that Buranese would want me to emphasize.
Some years back I seem to recall a Gallery in Venice, on the side of a canal, that stocked many paintings very similar to these images. I can't recall the artist, but I think the medium may have been acrylic, from the texture. I know that a young friend of mine tried to do something similar using my own photos of such reflections in Venice.
ReplyDeleteRoberto Ferruzzi, I was going to post the same.
DeleteWonderful images.
ReplyDeleteThanks, they're hard to resist photographing.
DeleteThank you - yes, I think that might have been the name.
ReplyDeleteNo, it wasn't. I spotted the pics in a gallery in Venice in 2008, and the name "Robert" sticks in my memory, but I can't recall more. It's really annoying me now.....
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I can't help you here, Ella. I imagine a lot of people would have tried their hand at capturing reflections, so whomever you're trying to remember must have done a really good job of it to stand out.
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