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CRISTO VELATO, SANSEVERO CHAPEL, NAPLES 1/12
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Black and white photograph of the cloister of the Abbey of Sénanque 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 : 19.69 in / 50 cm
Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg
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Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique : Film photography
Support: Pigment print on baryta paper (Canson Fine Art Baritta), laminated on Dibond
Dimensions: 60 x 40 cm
Number of copies: 12 signed and numbered prints
Year: 1994
Inspiration: In the half-light of the Sansevero Chapel in Naples, marble seems to breathe.
The Veiled Christ, sculpted in the eighteenth century, rests under the disturbing transparency of a stone shroud. Through his gaze, Ferrante Ferranti does not seek to document the work but to reveal its appearance: the light brushes the veil, glides over the folds, underlines the almost unreal softness of the material.
Photography captures this moment of suspension where stone becomes flesh, where silence becomes presence. In Ferranti’s work, architecture and sculpture are never fixed; they are crossed by the breath of time and by an inner light that animates them.
Here, the image does not only show a masterful sculpture — it invites a meditation on mystery, on the fragile border between visible and invisible, between matter and transcendence.
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” .
