ANGEL, SAN SPIRITO, FLORENCE (1983)
Référence :
Original author print of a black and white photograph 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 : 19.69 in / 50 cm
Height : 0.79 in / 2 cm
Width : 15.75 in / 40 cm
Weigth : 4.41 lb / 2 kg
ANGEL, SAN SPIRITO, FLORENCE (1983)
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique : Original author print of a silver photograph on pearl baryta paper
Supervision: Under glass, black frame and white mat
Dimensions: 37 x 24 cm (frame 50 x 40 cm)
Number of copies: Single signed print.
Year: 1983
Inspiration: In the church of Basilica Santo Spirito in Florence, Ferrante Ferranti isolates the detail of the drapery of a sculpted angel, focusing his gaze on the movement of the stone.
Under the soft light that brushes the surface of the marble, the folds seem almost alive, animated by a silent breath. The fragment becomes a landscape of light and matter: the sculpture is transformed into pure visual writing, where shadow and light reveal all the sensuality of the sculpted gesture.
Through this tight framing, Ferrante Ferranti invites the eye to contemplate the infinitesimal — where the detail of a drapery is enough to evoke the grace and momentum of the Baroque.
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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