Mare e Laguna di Venezia
Cecilia Maran · Padua 2021
San Marco in Boccalama
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, San Marco in Bocca Lama was marked on maps as a ruined island, a lost one, since it could no longer be traced in the place names of the lagoon as it is today.
- Year
- Padua 2021
- Technique
- Etching, marbling and direct biting with nitric acid, sulphate and citrosodina
- Plates
- Zinc plates cut through
- Format
- Print on the sheet, 500 × 700 mm
- Paper
- Magnani Pescia 310 g
/The work
Research in the area between the Motte di Volpego and the Campanella channel managed to trace the island, uncovering the remains of a church dedicated to Saint Mark and of an adjoining monastery. Through the language of printmaking, the work offers a view of a part of the lagoon floor where mysteries still lie.
Alongside the print, a vector image of the Venetian lagoon was made, with the corresponding stretch of sea bed picked out in red.
/Close up
The mark, close up
The cut edge, the point where the metal opened, the colours overlaying one another.
- Credits
- Artist and printer: Cecilia Maran
- Photographs
- The artist’s archive