Venice's arsenale 1980 awaiting for a new beginning photographs by antonio martinelli artmoorhouse m

VENICE’S ARSENALE 1980 Awaiting for a New Beginning PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANTONIO

MARTINELLI

JUNE 10TH - JULY 30TH 2013 I ARTMOORHOUSE MOOR HOUSE, 120 LONDON WALL, LONDON, EC2Y 5ET

EXHIBITION CURATED BY ANTONIO MARTINELLI, ELISA MARTINELLI, TIZIANA MAGGIO BROCHURE CONCEPT PUZZLEPROJECT.IT, ARTMOORHOUSE GRAPHIC CONCEPT PUZZLEPROJECT.IT ALL PHOTOGRAPHS © ANTONIO MARTINELLI ArtMoorHouse, Moor House, 120 London Wall, Greater London, EC2Y 5ET info@artmoorhouse.com www.artmoorhouse.com

ANTONIO MARTINELLI AND THE “ARSENALE”

THE ARSENALE OF VENICE

‘ archeology’s photography is then a form of catharsis to ease the uncertainty the doubt and the melancholy’. A. M.

abandonment.

As in the Arsenal of the Venetians Boils in the winter the tenacious pitch To smear their unsound vessels o’er again, For sail they cannot; and instead thereof One makes his vessel new, and one recaulks The ribs of that which many a voyage has made; One hammers at the prow, one at the stern, This one makes oars, and that one cordage twists, Another mends the mainsail and the mizzen..

greatness.

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The south front of the former

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navy. (Vintage gelatine silver print 50x60cm)

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Decoared with allegorical statues.

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Views of the statuary fence the

Dante’s Inferno.

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church. (Vintage Gelatine Silver Print 50x60cm)

The basins for conservation of hydraulic crane Mitchell-Armstrong.

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driver of electricity.

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of the diver’s warehause with (Vintage Gelatine 50x60cm) (Vintage Gelatine Silver Print 50x60cm)

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Antonio Martinelli

EXHIBITIONS (collective and personal): Idea e Architettura - XVI Triennale di Milano, 1985

Jean Prouvé - Paris - Pavillion de l’Arsenal, Paris 2000 Velha Goa - Maison du Portugal, Paris 2001 Jean Prouvé - Paris - Pavillion de l’Arsenal, Paris 2000 Velha Goa - Maison du Portugal, Paris 2001

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MONOGRAPHS AND PUBLISHED BOOKS (SOLO):

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ANTONIO MARTINELLI Antonio Martinelli Photographer 22, rue Ernest Cresson 75014 PARIS (France) Tel. +33 (0)145411690 Mob. +33 (0)632938874