TRIPTYCH FRACTURES (2005 – 2014)
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Triptych of black and white photographs by Ferrante Ferranti. The artist explores the vestiges of the past through the play of shadows and light created by the sun on the ruins. With the soul of an archaeologist, this architect by training combines his photographic work with his passion for antiquity and the Baroque.
Length : 0.39 in / 1 cm
Height : 23.62 in / 60 cm
Width : 15.75 in / 40 cm
Weigth : 6.61 lb / 3 kg
Temple of Bassae, Greece, 2014 – Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 2011 – Ganagobie Abbey, France, 2005
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique: Digital photography
Support: Fine Art Pearl Paper laminated on Dibond
Dimensions: 60 x 40 cm
Number of copies: 21, signed and numbered
Inspiration: Created between 2005 and 2014, this triptych resonates three major places of spiritual and architectural memory: the Temple of Apollo Epikourios, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Ganagobie.
Three geographies, three traditions, three eras — but the same question: that of the divide. A fracture in the stone, a crack in the material, a rupture in history. Ferrante Ferranti frames the surfaces as closely as possible, revealing the flaws, the scars, the internal tensions of the sacred walls.
At the temple of Bassae, Greek light cuts through the ancient architecture and accentuates the rigour of the lines. In Jerusalem, the half-light of the Holy Sepulchre envelops the stone in an almost carnal density. In Ganagobie, the Provençal light glides over the Romanesque walls and reveals their silent texture.
In these images, the fracture is not destruction but passage: it lets light in, inscribes time in matter and makes visible the very vulnerability of the sacred. The artist transforms these architectural scars into universal metaphors — those of a humanity traversed by history, but still standing.
This triptych thus composes a meditation on permanence and fragility: three places separated by continents, united by stone, light and memory.
Ferrante Ferranti
FRANCE
Born January 13, 1960 in Algeria, of a Sardinian mother and a Sicilian father. He took his first photograph at the age of eighteen, a wave in Belle-Île-en-Mer. Passionate about Fernand Pouillon’s book, Les Pierres Sauvages, he began training as an architect in Toulouse, which he completed at Paris-UP6 in 1985 with a diploma in Theaters and scenography in the Baroque era. Traveling photographer, he has been involved for thirty years with Dominique Fernandez in a joint exploration of the Baroque and the different layers of civilizations, from Syria to Bolivia via Sicily and Saint Petersburg. His photographs dialogue with the texts of the writer, who defines him in the album Itinerrances (Actes Sud, 2013) as “the inventor of a language which links the sun to the ruins, in search of the meaning hidden in the forms” .
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