
Calle Tredici Martiri
- Publisher
- Gnomic Book
- Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 978-0-9985180-2-2
- Specifications
- Hardcover
144 pages of new photographs
80 pages of memoirs by Aldo Varisco and archival imagery
First edition
Fictionalised photographic reinterpretation of the grandfather's wartime memoir
Calle Tredici Martiri (Alley of the Thirteen Martyrs) is a fictionalised photographic reinterpretation of Koxvold's grandfather Aldo Varisco's campaign of direct action against the Nazi occupation of Italy. The book is comprised of one hundred and forty-four pages of Koxvold's photographs and eighty pages of Varisco's memoirs of the resistance, alongside archival imagery. The book's title refers to the location of the Venetian headquarters of the National Republican Guard at Ca' Giustinian, which Varisco's team destroyed with explosives in the mid-forties, killing thirteen. The following day, the German military shot thirteen Italian prisoners in retribution for the attack; Varisco and his team were later captured and extensively tortured. After the war, the street alongside Ca' Giustinian was renamed Calle Tredici Martiri. This project explores the impossibility of photographic truth in the context of the contemporary nexus of capitalism, fascism and consumerism within which we locate ourselves.