SAN SEBASTIAN BY GIORGETTI, ROME (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
SAN SEBASTIAN BY GIORGETTI, CATACOMBS OF SAN SEBASTIANO (1983)
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique : Original author print of a silver photograph on pearl baryta paper
Frame: Under glass, black frame and ivory passe-partout
Dimensions: 31 x 20 cm (frame 50 x 40 cm)
Number of copies: Single signed print.
Year: 1983
Inspiration: In the half-light of the Catacombs of San Sebastiano, Rome, Antonio Giorgetti’s sculpture of Saint Sebastian appears as if emerging from the shadows.
Captured by Ferrante Ferranti’s lens, the light glides gently over the surface of the marble, revealing the tension of the body and the almost ecstatic softness of the face. In this underground place steeped in memory, photography transforms Baroque sculpture into a silent apparition.
The contrast between the darkness of the catacombs and the brilliance of the marble creates an atmosphere of recollection, where the suffering of the martyr becomes an image of beauty and transcendence. Through his gaze as an architect and traveller, Ferrante Ferranti restores all the spiritual power of this place and this emblematic figure of Christianity.
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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