Photographs by RICCARDO DE CAL Riccardo De Cal presents his exhibit, Into the Labyrinth from June 17- August 21, 2016 at Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Italy. The exhibit will include 20 photographs, primarily selected from De Cal's new publication, Dream of Venice Architecture. Inspired by novelist Jorge Luis Borges's statement that the maze, 'is a building built to confuse people,' De Cal has created an interior environment of metal armatures, audio recordings and photography. Designed by Melissa Siben, the exhibit is a modern 3-dimensional representation of the labyrinthic structure of the city of Venice. De Cal took the series of photographs over a three month period, from October-December 2015. For him the experience was, 'like listening to a melody coming from the calli, and trying to find its origin within the labyrinth. I felt like a dowser in search of water. Photographing Venice was not an intellectual approach, but rather instinctive and subliminal, instead.' The audio recordings quote architects Tadao Ando, Guido Pietropoli, Louise Braverman, Massimiliano Fuksas, Oscar Niemeyer, Randy Bosch, Richard Murphy, Rocco Yim, Shun Kanda, Thomas Woltz, Vincenzo Casali, Mario Botta, and Valeriano Pastor; designer Enrico Baleri; and architecture critic William Menking. Dream of Venice Architecture, the exhibit catalogue is published by Bella Figura Publications, an imprint dedicated to the investigation of Venice as a living city. Riccardo De Cal was born and lives in Asolo, Italy. After receiving his degree in Architecture at IUAV in Venice he has developed a career as an award winning documentary filmmaker and photographer. His research is focused on the themes of suspension of time and abstraction of spaces.