Silent Witness: Photographs of Shipwrecks by Stefano Benazzo
March 11th-18th 2021 at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
Rigel Inc. is pleased to announce Stefano Benazzo’s exhibition currently held at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Here are some words from the Museum about this display: “Silent Witness features a collection of 60 photographs by Italian photographer and artist Stefano Benazzo who has spent decades seeking shipwrecks from some of the most remote locations around the globe. His work narrates the scenes of these wrecks with light and portrays the soul of the abandoned vessels. The photographs in Silent Witness tell the story of decay for these ships, capturing their architecture and presenting them as sculptures embedded in the landscape. The exhibition will be displayed in the Museum’s Torben Karlshoej Gallery.”
October 2020
Dr. Fred Lockwood is a professor emeritus of learning and teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is also a writer and a PADI master scuba diver: these two passions have led him to create underwater novels and the character of Jack Collier, owner of The Marine Salvage and Investigation Company.
Rigel Inc. is pleased to announce that Dr. Lockwood chose a photo by Stefano Benazzo for the cover of his latest work, Gross Negligence. Benazzo is a renowned photographer specialized in stranded shipwrecks. The cover wreck, renamed by Dr. Lockwood “Demerara Queen”, still exists, stranded near the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a coral archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
Dr. Lockwood’s adventure story is about “A derelict ship towed from a South American backwater to be scuttled to create an artificial reef off the coast of a Caribbean Island. This previously neglected part of the island, and a new dive centre, are set to benefit – buy at a cost to a local entrepreneur. […] The bizarre death of divers on the newly scuttled ship and a series of unexplained accidents around it cause the wreck and dive centre to be shunned. The Marine Salvage and Investigation Company, that stripped out and prepared the ship for sinking, is charged with Gross Negligence. The dive centre is also under investigation and both could face financial ruin”.
2020 Exhibition of stranded wrecks by Stefano Benazzo
Rigel Inc. is happy to show you a sneak peak of one of Stefano Benazzo’s breathtaking shipwrecks exhibitions. Stay tuned for when they come to the US.
Antonio Nunziante is coming to ART SANTA FE 2019!
Come and see Maestro Nunziante’s breathtaking masterpieces. He will be exhibiting at Art Santa Fe 2019 in Santa Fe, New Mexico from July 18th to July 21st at the Santa Fe Convention Center. This is a must see of his art creations.
Art Nouveau Glass Masterpieces
Rigel Inc. is happy to announce the partnership with Art Decoratif located in Rome, Italy. We are presenting you with extraordinary Art Nouveau and Art Déco vases made by the famous French glass factories Gallé, Daum, Lalique, and Schneider. For over forty years Art Decoratif has been focusing on the research and sales of these glass masterpieces produced between 1880 and 1930 in France, especially in the Nancy area.
The story of these glass vases begins with Émil Gallé (1846-1904), the undisputed promoter of a technique which, through the chemical or mechanical etching of the glass, allowed to decorate vases with botanical, aquatic, or landscape subjects, and which greatly stimulated the development of Art Nouveau. These vases represent the best of the art of French glass factories at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and it is getting more and more difficult to find them.
For further information, please contact Mike Green at mike@rigelart.net.
