Piranesi: Carceri d'invenzione

Above, one of the key elements of the exhibition Le Arti di Piranesi: architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer (The Art of Piranesi: architect, engraver, antiquarian, vedutista, designer), a 12 minute animation of Piranesi's Carceri series made by Gregoire Dupond at Factum Arte specifically for the exhibition. This series of 16 visionary images, originally etched by Piranesi when in his late 20's, shows the workings of his imagination, merging his architectural ambitions with his obsessive interest in antiquity. Watching Gregoire Dupond's animation is literally like entering Piranesi's mind.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Piranesi
• Fondazione Cini
• venezia

[moonpie817]

Who composed the background music/what's the piece called?

[peyiots]

Wonderful video which satisfies all those who have been amazed by "the dark mind of Piranesi" and especially these Carceri, by enabling us as viewers to enter these immense cavernous subterranean architectural spaces, ruins of an impossibly vertiginous culture of the mind and the eye, and inhabited by spindly ghost-like characters alone in their silence. Piranesi was the first and unsurpassable scenographer and we are grateful for this wonderful and imaginative film.