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Ferrante Ferranti FRANCE
Ferrante Ferranti is a photographer and writer. Trained as an architect, he infuses his “Writings of Light” with his exploration of travel, art, and heritage. Born in Algeria in 1960 to a Sardinian mother and a Sicilian father, Ferrante Ferranti earned a degree in architecture in Paris in 1985 before dedicating himself to photography. A traveling photographer, he has been engaged for thirty-five years with Dominique Fernandez of the French Academy in a joint exploration of the Baroque period and the various strata of civilizations, his photographs engaging in a dialogue with the writer’s texts, from Sicily to Saint Petersburg, from Syria to Bolivia. In 2000, he illustrated the reissue of the book *Mother Mediterranean*, originally published in 1952 and a classic of travel literature. He is the photographer of some forty books, on Italy and the Mediterranean (Syria, Libya, Algeria or ancient Turkey), Russia, Bolivia, Portugal and Brazil, India. All his work testifies to his interest in the meeting of civilizations. read more
Exhibitions (selection):
– 2023 – Chercheurs de Trésors, Galerie OAK Toulouse
– 2021, Regards d’Esthètes, Villa Capeyron Bordeaux, Galerie OAK Bordeaux
– 2017, Les Musées de la Ville de Paris, grilles de l’Hotel de Ville, Paris
– 2013 et 2015 Itinerrance Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris et Base Sous Marine de Bordeaux
– 2009, Mont Athos, au Petit Palais à Paris, du 10 avril au 5 juillet- 2009, Imaginaire des ruines, hommage à Piranèse, à Bordeaux (Base sous-marine), Villeneuve sur Lot (Musée de Gajac), Arles (Chapelle du Méjan).
– 2008, Le bois des missions, sculptures baroques du Paraguay, à Sarrebourg, Le Mans et Lyon-Fourvière
– 5 artistes italiens de Paris : Paris (Musée de la SEITA, Centre Georges Pompidou), 1992; Musée de Metz, 1993; Musée de Chambéry, 1994).
– 1998 Regards sur Mansart, châteaux de Maison-Laffitte, Blois et Balleroy
– 1997, Brésil Baroque, entre ciel et terre, au Petit Palais à Paris
Writer of :
– Lire la photographie, Bréal, 2002, L’esprit des ruines, Chêne, 2005, Athos, la Sainte Montagne, Desclées de Brouwer, 2015
And co-writer of :
– Les pierres vivantes (avec le frère Philippe Markiewicz), Philippe Rey, 2005, Les ancêtres liés aux étoiles (avec le plasticien Rachid
Koraïchi), Actes sud, 2008, L’Imaginaire des Ruines (avec le plasticien Patrice Alexandre), Actes Sud, 2009, Empreintes du Sacré (avec Olivier Germain-Thomas), La Martinière, 2012
