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 The old saying in Venice says,
"The long nose of the mask is the Venetian Symbol".You put the mask on when you want to be different; to hide your feelings, your purposes, have your little intrigues and remain undiscovered. From the ancient times, Venetian masks were made to represent faces of mystical characters, never seen but believed to exist. The Venice itself is the city in mask and through that mask that enchanted city is looking on the surrounding world. "Venice through the mask's eyes" that is how I named the series of work, where he is looking in the eyes of every one of his mask, and discovers for us the most sensitive places of the treasury of Venice. When the series of masks would be completed and brought together, we would see the gold of costumes and silver of laces and masks... masks... masks, and also the mirror reflection of the most breath taking performance in the world - the Venice Carnival. It is impossible to change destiny. But there is a place on the Earth where time in a year it is possible to change much - the person, clothes, habits, desires, a floor, age. From the slave to turn to Emperor, from the Cinderella in Princess, from tortured by children and Cares of the housewife in seductive KOLOMBINU, from prudent businessman in the carefree HARLEQUIN. To go through all these wonderful TRANSFORMATIONS, it is necessary only to appear in VENICE in February. Imagine: you go on dark and confusing Venetian street lengthways coast of the narrow channel. Winter. Night. Fog. Smells as oranges. And, as oranges, shine in fog dim and yellow Venetian lanterns. You are far from the center and up to you noise of celebratory crowd does not reach. And suddenly on hardly covered smooth surface of the channel there is a strange shadow, and silence breaks whisper of the waves chased by an oar of a gondola. You hasten to the nearest bridge- there from it is more convenient to watch how the phantom gradually finds outlines. First the raincoat and a cocked hat appear. Then, gradually, from darkness there is the white mask covering eyes and a nose. Below - a piece black silks, pleated which are hidden a mouth and a chin. A phantom slowly floats under the bridge and disappears in darkness. You remember this vision on all the life and sensation of the Miracle will not leave you in all days of the Venetian carnival. The areas and streets, channels and bridges of the most beautiful and the strangest in the world cities at this time turn to a huge stage on which it is developed grandiose action of the most fascinating in the entire world performance - Venetian Carnival. In Venice it is possible to buy masks and suits, which on few days will change your appearance, and, maybe, and your life. Children's dreams aspirations of the mature person, senile hopes - all it can be executed these days. It is enough to put on only a mask, to forget about realities and to merge with crowd above which soar spirit of the miracle, sensation of the holiday and aroma of love. As if bright beams of the spring sun, the carnival rushes into crude and foggy Venetian winter. And in a flash the all around blast in the gold of suits, silver of laces, heavenly colors of capes, silks of raincoats, greens of wreaths. However among this violence of paints, as the reminder about eternal, is not present and the black mask of Death will fly. Remember, the person, passes all! That is why have fun, walk, drink, sing, dance, love today. In fact tomorrow there will be nothing. Only to it such mysticism and magic. Perhaps, it is obliged to a winter fog which, as if a veil, covers figures in masks, giving to them still the big mystery and mysteriousness? And can, the matter is that itself immersed on a bottom of a gulf - Venice? |
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