Mare e Laguna di Venezia
Cecilia Maran · Venice 2019
Mare Nostrum
Mare Nostrum sets out to show what the water hides, so that anyone looking becomes aware that there is a reality not yet fully discovered and under constant threat, offering a study of the sea in its full extent.
- Year
- Venice 2019
- Technique
- Etching, marbling, sugar-lift and direct biting with nitric acid and citrosodina
- Plates
- Zinc plates cut through
- Format
- Framed print, 500 × 700 mm
/The work
The zinc plates, cut through, take up the shapes of the bathymetric lines that make up the floor of the Mediterranean, and by overlaying them on the press the depths of the sea can be described.
This particular sea was chosen because the Mare Nostrum is one of the oldest caskets of the beauty that inhabits the sea bed, while also being one of the most polluted seas in the world.
- Credits
- Artist and printer: Cecilia Maran
- Photographs
- The artist’s archive