'The Automaton' is based on a story told to Paolo Ventura as a
child. It centres on an elderly, Jewish watchmaker living in the
Venice ghetto in 1943, one of the darkest periods of the Nazi
occupation and the rule of the fascist regime in Italy. The city
where the watchmaker has lived his entire life, now desolate and
fearful, is the stage on which the story unfolds. The old man
decides to build an automaton (a robot), to keep him company while
he awaits the arrival of the fascist police who will deport the
last of the remaining Jews from the ghetto. Paolo Ventura is
internationally known for the complex creative process he adopts.
Having created the narrative script for the book, he then builds
elaborate models and miniature figurines in his studio and
incorporates them in what appear as almost film sets. These are
then photographed and his final artworks are the photographs of
these constructed tableaux. 'The Automaton' is a photographic
narrative from beginning to end.
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