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Photo by Goran Pavletic<\/p>\n
At the beginning I was looking for the dates in which the photos were taken to place them in some near past, after some images I let it go because they could have been made a year or 60 years ago. There is no international time in Venice, so it makes no sense to look for it in photos taken there. There is the time of Venice, the one that she decides and that is given back to you only if you feel it, only if you understand that the physical rules do not exist there.
\nIt is said \u201cto have time\u201d as if it were a property that you have, but the reality is that time management is normally a ruthless game in which you try to put your things in too small boxes. Venice sweeps them away puts you in front of life and time in a natural way. When you\u2019re hanging in her calli or fondamenta you really have time: your time, all the time in the world.
\nAre there other equally generous cities? I do not believe. It takes her unreal force to bring her visitor on a different time plan.<\/p>\n
Venice should not exist. Venice floats solidly and rises where there should be nothing but water. It is a real mirage and is also one of the most powerful monuments of mankind to her will and ability.<\/em><\/p>\n Frutto dell\u2019ingegno e del bisogno, \u00e8 la testimonianza di una guerra vinta dall\u2019uomo sulla natura stessa. E se l\u2019alleato della natura \u00e8 il tempo e il suo scorrere inesorabile, i fondatori di Venezia hanno scoperto il meccanismo che interrompe il tempo e annulla la natura. Siccome \u00e8 magica e irreale, Venezia non ha niente di naturale. Ha ingannato il tempo, come potrebbe essere altrimenti? Lo ha distorto, come si diceva prima, e te lo restituisce quando ci metti piede. Non so se i veneziani hanno la stessa idea della loro citt\u00e0. Forse viverci te la rende familiare fino a pensare che tutto il resto del mondo abbia il fusorario veneziano.\u00a0 Mi ha fatto piacere quindi leggere nelle parole dell\u2019introduzione del veneziano Tiziano Scarpa un riconoscimento al visitatore come al suo vero abitante, anche se fugace. I veneziani residenti sono sempre di meno mentre aumentano i turisti e Venezia \u2014 ancora una volta \u2014 \u00e8 unica al mondo per la trasformazione urbanistica a cui \u00e8 soggetta: non \u00e8 cambiata nella forma ma nella sostanza dei suoi abitanti. \u00c8 come se poco alla volta e impercettibilmente i suoi abitanti fossero stati sostituiti dai visitatori, come se in un corpo venissero sostituite tutte le cellule. \u00c8 ancora lo stesso corpo, la stessa persona? All\u2019apparenza s\u00ec, ma nelle sue funzioni \u00e8 un\u2019altra cosa.<\/p>\n Photographing it in black and white is a way to show what color paradoxically hides, that\u2019s the essence of time extracted from its flow, moved into a system without references, measured by a meter that exists only there. This is your time: use it as you wish.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/martinopietropoli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1_veHvmSSkXls-CRL1uM7wug-1-1024x768.jpeg\")
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\nThis is why Venice is not a museum: because it is not preserved but changes, even if her metamorphosis is caught only by the most careful statistician or by the most sensitive poet. It is not apparent but more intimate: Venice is returning to be the magical city that arises where there should have been nothing and that decides how to dispose of her time. The same time she returns to her visitor. An unmeasurable time, a time of the soul, an infinite time.<\/p>\n