Venetiian Carnival by EyEm
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Medium: Photoshop, Photography
Dimensions: 4500 x 3000 px
Year: 2022
Price: $1500.00 USD
Status: available
The Venice Carnival began in 1162 in celebration of the Venice Republic's victory over its enemy: the Patriarch or Aquileia. The people of Venice gathered in Saint Mark's Square (San Marco) to dance and celebrate their victory. Ever since then, the victory was celebrated in the streets of Venice. The House of Barbarigo was a Venetian noble family during the late 15th century. Several members of the family, pledged their allegiances to the Templar Order, as did some of their allies. Back then templars been told to be driven into Freemasonry culture... "This artwork holds no offensive guard against any household or cults and is just a theory like other theories throughout the history from the artist's idealogies plus artistic surreal visions"
Why collect this work?
A monumental wing interrupts an otherwise symmetrical ruin, turning a ceremonial gathering into an image of unstable authority and concealed identity.
- EyEm’s profile describes a practice concerned with historical symbolism and surreal fantasy. Here, that stated interest is legible in the collision of carnival masks, classical statuary, winged bodies and a flooded architectural setting.
- In the supplied image, paired arcades and statues frame a dense central pyramid of reclining figures. Masks obscure several faces, while exposed bodies carry tattoos and ornaments, setting public display against withheld identity. The enlarged pale wing blocks depth and dominates the gathering.
- Catalogue metadata identifies Photoshop and photography. Digital compositing makes radical shifts of scale and improbable coexistence possible here, joining bodies, birds, flowers, masonry and water within a continuous pictorial space without establishing that they shared a physical scene.
- The work is particularly useful beside images of civic ritual or masquerade because it complicates celebration with hierarchy, concealment and excess. Its theatrical symmetry initially promises order, yet the crowded centre converts ceremony into an uneasy spectacle.
About the Artist
EyEm
EyEm is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: collage. Based in Alborz, Iran.
Nationality: Iranian
Always the Artist, Never the Muse
