Mare e Laguna di Venezia
Cecilia Maran · Padua 2021
Tegnùe de Pistrina
Tegnùe de Pistrina sets out to bring to light the particular morphology of the tegnùe off Pellestrina, with their irregular sea beds, full of winding hollows where fish and molluscs can hide.
- Year
- Padua 2021
- Technique
- Etching, marbling, sugar-lift and direct biting with nitric acid and citrosodina
- Plates
- Zinc plates cut through
- Format
- Framed print, 1000 × 700 mm
- Paper
- Magnani Pescia 310 g
/The work
Another essential feature of the tegnùe is how strongly coloured they are, which comes as a great surprise to anyone looking, so much so that they are considered the true reefs of the Mediterranean. That quality is given back here through different colours printed in transparency.
Essential to the making of the work was consulting the maps of the Venetian lagoon on the up-to-date sites of ARPAV and CNR Ismar; by tracing the sea bed in vector, shapes were obtained that became the plates to be incised and printed, so as to give back to the viewer the truest possible likeness of the Tegnùe off Pellestrina.
- Credits
- Artist and printer: Cecilia Maran
- Photographs
- The artist’s archive