Wood framed artwork, black & gold profile 1,2 cm, thickness 3 cm

This series of works are born for an editorial project that asks contemporary artists to choose and confront themselves with a literary work. Andrea Morucchio has been called to confront John Ruskin's current text The Stones of Venice. Some elements of the Basilica of San Marco described by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice are reinterpreted visually through the recomposition of thousands of pieces extrapolated from the mosaic flooring of the Basilica itself.

Andrea Morucchio's "Puzzling’ project" starts from more than five thousand different photographic tiles of the mosaic floor of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice which are rearranged and repositioned in the form of a mosaic to recreate/reinterpret the paintings by great masters, mainly Italian Renaissance and Baroque painters, who through portraiture represent historical, religious or mythological figures.