At Blue Gallery in Venice, Destinazione bellezza opens on March 26, a photography exhibition by Claudia Meschini dedicated to an unusual Venice, observed and captured during the months of the 2020 lockdown.

The title echoes the slogan of a campaign launched in 2024 by ACTV, the Venetian public transport company, which invited residents and visitors to discover the city and its islands through vaporetto journeys. In the exhibition, this invitation becomes above all a reflection on the intrinsic beauty of Venice.

The show features sixteen photographs: nine previously presented in an exhibition in 2020 and seven never shown before. Most of the images were taken between March and April during the days of quarantine, with the exception of one more recent photograph that nevertheless evokes the luminous atmosphere of that suspended spring.

These are not melancholic images, but photographs filled with clear light and intense colors. The silence of the empty city becomes an opportunity to capture details and geometries: the unusually calm waters of the Grand Canal at sunset, the bright red of an empty bench, and the play of light on the Rialto Bridge illuminated with the colors of the Italian flag.

Meschini’s work stems from a long-standing passion for travel and for photography as a form of visual storytelling. Through light and color, the artist seeks to reveal the aesthetic value of places, transforming even the most ordinary scenes into images capable of unveiling the hidden beauty of the world.

The exhibition will be on view until April 4.