VENICE UNDER COVID 2020

The Silence of Immortality

With Venice under Covid 2020, Erwin Blase has captured a contemporary historical document that is both rare and haunting. In the moment of global standstill, he documents one of the world's most photographed cities in a state of absolute, almost surreal emptiness.

 

His fine-art photographs capture an architectural melancholy that deconstructs the commercialized image of Venice. Stripped of the dynamics of tourism, the historic facades, the still water, and the monumental solitude of the squares come to the fore.

 

Blase's precise visual language does not merely document a crisis; it reveals the timeless, vulnerable beauty of a city that, for a brief historical moment, returned to its true essence.

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The works are available in strictly limited editions on museum-grade media.