![]() ![]() The story unfolds in the deserted, enclosed part of town filled with terror. The protagonist is an elderly Jewish watchmaker, who tried to survive in the ghetto of Venice in 1943, during what was perhaps the darkest period of Nazi occupation in Italian history. It was created based on a story that Ventura was told in his childhood by his father, an author of children’s books. The Automaton takes place in Venice during WWII, at a time when the Nazis entered North Italy to stop their former allies from falling away. The only part of the story that happened in reality was the Nazis and the Italian police entering the ghetto of Venice in December 1943.” This is how the creator, Ventura described his project: “Each photo was taken in an imaginary Venice, of which I built a model in miniature. That those who suffered the past were only tiny figurines in an imaginary puppet theatre and not flesh-and-blood people. We often wish to imagine that strange, oppressive and fearful memories only exist in nightmares. ![]() The photographs create the impression as if it only existed in our fantasy, even though all its elements are so real. Paolo Ventura’s Venice is at once familiar and unknown. This time the Festival opens with an exhibition where visitors can enter a magical pictorial world on the borderline of fine art and photography, fiction and reality. Hungary’s largest-scale photography show, the BUDAPEST PHOTO FESTIVAL 2020, celebrates photographic art for the fourth time with its series of events to run in the MŰCSARNOK from 28 February. Opening exhibition of the Budapest Photo Festival in the Műcsarnok ![]()
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