Death in Venice is in part the story of the aging Aschenbach who undergoes an internal and personal apocalypse. Aschenbach eventually becomes consumed by the obsessions of an unrequited love for the young boy Tadzio. The story is set in the Venice of 1902, a city struggling with a major cholera epidemic, something that the authorities of the time have been attempting to cover up. The film portrays a haunting image of the the doomed Aschenbach wandering the fetid disease ridden streets and canals of Venice.
The sculpture is comprised of the film poster that has two of Durer’s angels from his panels illustrating the Book of Revelations cut through and combined with it. Below the surface is a a print of the 2012 sculpture I created of Venice , created from the music score by Benjamin Britten for the opera “Death in Venice” and also text from the novel by Thomas Mann
