PYRAMIDS OF GHIZEH, CAIRO, EGYPT (2008)
Référence :
Photograph of the Pyramids of Ghiza 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 : 36.61 in / 93 cm
Width : 55.12 in / 140 cm
Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique: Digital color photography
Support: Fine Art Pearl paper laminated on dibond, black oak artbox mounting
Dimensions: 93 x 140 cm
Number of copies: 21 signed and numbered prints
Year: 2008
Inspiration: Captured in 2008 on the iconic plateau of the Giza Complex, this work by Ferrante Ferranti offers a contemporary and sensitive vision of the pyramids of Ghizeh, thousand-year-old monuments sculpted by the light of the desert. In this large colour format, the artist stages the essential dialogue between light and shadow, an articulation that structures not only the landscape but the very experience of these vestiges of Antiquity. The rays of the sun – powerful and relentless in the Egyptian sky – chisel shapes and volumes, accentuate textures and reveal the geometric rhythms of the stone masses.
Ferranti, who combines the precision of an architect with the intuition of a travelling photographer, encourages an almost cinematic reading of the pyramid: the eye travels through the desert surface as it would travel through an architecture, following the ascending lines, the backlighting and the deep shadows that suggest the invisible behind the visible.
This image, both documentary and poetic, questions our relationship to time and the memory of shapes. It reveals the extent to which the photographic act can, in the same movement, fix the moment and inscribe it in a historical continuity where light becomes matter and stone, writing.
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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