Peliti, Mario (and) Matthieu Humery (and) Alain Fleischer — Hypervenezia: Venice Urban Photo Project

Venezia, Marsilio, 2021. Hardcover. A matte red casebound book with white and black text down the spine. Pages: (6), 7-464. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. "After six months of renovating works, Palazzo Grassi will reopen to the public on September 5th with 'HYPERVENEZIA', an exhibition specifically dedicated to the city of Venice on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. It presents for the first time to the public the ambitious 'Venice Urban Photo Project', conceived and developed by Mario Peliti. In 2006, Mario Peliti starts to photograph and systematically map the city with the aim to form an archive of images that is the widest and most organic ever created and to offer a unique representation of the entire urban fabric of Venice, in its complexity and continuity. This photography archive currently amounts to 12.000 images, all in black and white, taken under the same lighting conditions, without any shadows and, most of all, in the absence of any human presence. 'HYPERVENEZIA' offers a radical visual experience: the Venice we know disappears to give way to a parallel Venice, an empty and timeless one. From the Serenissima presented in its pure materiality emerges this unsettling strangeness that characterises any city that has been emptied of its inhabitants. VG: Wear to the bottom right corner and a warp towards the base of the spine. Otherwise in excellent condition, with clean pages and tight binding.