Venezia Anno Zero. Andrea Morucchio’s project

If it is true, as it is true, that opportunities are born from crises, this is only possible if one knows how to seize them, and to know how to seize them one must first know how to look for them. The work created by Andrea Morucchio (Venice, 1967) during the lockdown period (from 17 March to 17 May) and now on view in an immersive setting at Bottega Cini’s Spazio Proiezioni is a synthesis of 30 hours of video shot across the city of Venice, using a simple smartphone, without a tripod or stabiliser. Halfway between curiosity and transgressive freedom (the artist states that he filmed without permits), it stems from an intuitive impulse, unpremeditated and entirely spontaneous, the outcome of which, as with heuristic processes, is fraught with chance, uncertainty and unexpected surprises.

by Adriana Scalise

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