Mattia Casalegno's 3D Video Celebrates Reopening of Teatro Verde in Venice

Mattia Casalegno (born 1981, Naples) has created "La Maschera del Tempo," a digital artwork set in the Teatro Verde, an amphitheater designed by Luigi Vietti in 1952 on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The work celebrates the theater's reopening after restoration. Casalegno collaborated with ArchiVE and Factum Arte on photogrammetric reproduction of the venue, part of Fondazione Cini's digitization efforts. The video explores the underground dressing rooms built 0.82 meters below average lagoon water level, revealing traces from the past 70 years. The narrative features android groups, a futuristic Daedalus operating 3D printers producing bull bodies, and references the Minotaur myth and the Farnese Bull sculpture from the Museo Archeologico di Napoli. Sound design is by Maurizio Martusciello (Martux_M), and costumes by fashion designer Amin Farah, who drew from Commedia dell'Arte costumes in the archives of the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma of Fondazione Cini. Casalegno, winner of the Lumen Prize Award, investigates relationships between art and science, neuroscience, biology, anthropology, ecology, and computer science.