Antonio Martinelli

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Antonio Martinelli
Born
Venice, Italy
NationalityItalian and French
Alma materUniversità Iuav di Venezia
Occupation(s)Photographer, Photojournalist
Websiteantoniomartinelli.net

Antonio Martinelli is a French-Italian photographer born in Venice, Italy. He currently lives in Paris.

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Early life, education and early career

Martinelli graduated from Università Iuav di Venezia (Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia).

From an early age he frequented the Venice Circolo Fotografico La Gondola. [1] He became friends with Hugo Pratt and provided the introductory photographs for Pratt's book Corto Maltese - Fable de Venise. [2]

In 1972, Martinelli's trip to India which resulted in multiple photographic projects for publications and exhibitions throughout Europe, in New York and in India.

In 1979, Domus magazine commissioned the photographer to report on the construction and installation of the Teatro del Mondo in Venice, a work by architect Aldo Rossi sponsored by the Venice Biennale. [3] Martinelli followed the evolution of the work, from the laying of the structure's first pole on the barge to the introduction into the waters of the Teatro, through to the maiden voyage in the mist of the Venetian lagoon towards the Punta della Dogana, at the entrance of the Grand Canal. After that, he accompanied the Teatro on his journey to the Adriatic Sea until Dubrovnik.

The collaboration with Domus and the Biennale led to a work documenting the first exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture: La Strada Novissima, [4] installed in 1980 in the long Corderie building. The first photographer to have documented the Arsenal interiors, he used the experience for the book of Giorgio Bellavitis L'Arsenale di Venezia Storia di una grande struttura urbana. [5]

His friendship with Aldo Rossi and other architects and historians such as Francesco Dal Co, [6] Manfredo Tafuri, Mario Botta, Jean-Louis Cohen, [7] [8] [9] Claude Vasconi, [10] [11] Henri Gaudin, [12] Massimiliano Fuksas and Peter Zumthor, [13] led to other collaborations and projects on Venice, Italy, France and Japan.

Martinelli's interest for architecture and landscapes also led him to work for the Italian Touring Club [14] [15] and publisher Franco Maria Ricci (FMR and AD Architectural Digest).

From 1980, he began his collaboration with Japanese architecture magazine A + U Architecture & Urbanism, for which he carried out numerous reports and monographs on global architecture. [16] [17] [18] [19]

Projects

1995–2005: The Daniell/Martinelli Project

Between 1995 and 2005, Martinelli worked on the Daniell/Martinelli project under the patronage of UNESCO. The project and its related exhibitions led to the books Oriental Scenery: Yesterday & Today; Travels to India, Yesterday and Today and Passaggi in India: Ieri e Oggi.

After reading Mildred Archer's Early Views India, Martinelli became interested in the work of English artists Thomas and William Daniell (respectively uncle and nephew), [20] who travelled and photographed the Indian subcontinent at the end of the 19th century. After extensive preparation, Martinelli followed the same route as the Daniells through four trips to India starting at the end of 1995. He used the Daniells' diaries to identify the places visited, and then photographed the same locations so as to compare his photos with theirs. Various books about Martinelli's trip were published in France, the UK and India, [21] [22] and several exhibitions were also held: Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta in 2000, [23] Paris in 2005, [24] and Rome [25] [26] and New Delhi in 2011. [27] [28]

2010–2011: The Lucknow Project

In 2010 and 2011, Martinelli and Paris Guimet Museum collaborated on a project comparing 19th-century and present-day photos of Lucknow, India for an exhibition called "Lucknow at the Mirror of Time". [29] [30]

2001–2024: Collaborations with Point de Vue and Images du Monde

Between 2001 and 2024, he worked with French magazines Point de Vue and Images du Monde to produce dozens of reports in France, Europe and around the world which covered a wide range of subjects relating to art, culture, heritage and travel.

2014–2015: The Deccan Project

In 2015, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York commissioned Martinelli to photograph the art and architecture of the Deccan region for the exhibition "The Deccan Through a Photographer's Lens, Return to Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy" and its catalogue. [31] [32]

2020: The ‘Paris-Souvenir-Paris' Project

Between 11 March and 5 May 2020, Martinelli and Luc Castel photographed the empty streets of Paris during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their work, commissioned by Éditions Delpyre, was never published.

2021: Aldo Rossi Exhibition

Martinelli provided photographs of the Teatro del Mondo for the exhibition "Aldo Rossi: The Architect and the Cities" at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. [33]

2018–2023: The Nicolo' Manucci Project

Martinelli and Marco Moneta staged the exhibition "Nicolo Manucci: the Marco Polo of India" at the Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro in Venice between April and November 2023. [34] [35]

2022: Exhibition at the IUAV - University of Architecture in Venice

Il Teatro del Mondo - Venezia 1980. L'inizio di un viaggio' [36]

2023: The Dior Project in India

In March 2023, he was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior's artistic director, to document the preparations and artistic events surrounding Dior's first fashion show in Mumbai, India. [37]

2021–2023 : The Modern Paris Project 1914-1945

Martinelli was asked by architectural historians Jean-Louis Cohen and Pascal Mory to photograph a number of emblematic buildings constructed between the two World Wars for the "Paris Moderne 1914-1945" exhibition held at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai between July and October 2023. [38] Martinelli's photographs illustrate two architectural walks in and around Paris. [39] [40]

Collections

Photographs attributed to Martinelli are held in the Conway Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [41]

Exhibitions

Publications

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