The Wilmotte Foundation in Venice, Fondaco degli Angeli,
has the pleasure to present:
« ISOLA NOVA »,
photographs from Philippe Calandre
« A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, … » Oscar Wilde
Following the exhibition “Fiction Factories” in 2012 at the Gallery Esther Woerdehoff in which Philippe Calandre developed the fictional factories, Jean-Michel Wilmotte proposed the artist to create a new series for his Venetian gallery.
After many trips to Venice, Philippe Calandre imagined a series of new islands in Venice inhabited by large industrial structures mixed with fragments of traditional Venetian architecture.
These new ghostly-like “building-islands”, appear to be floating among a classic iconography and somewhat disturbing chimeric constructions that multiply themselves. These photographic compositions between documentation and collage are exhibited at the Fondaco degli Angeli in Venice from 17 December 2013 to 15 February 2014.