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WAILING WALL II, JERUSALEM (2/12)
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Color photograph of a Jewish pilgrim in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, by Ferrante Ferranti.
The Western Wall is a part of the retaining wall of the Temple Esplanade in Jerusalem, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Built in the first century A.D. During the completion of the construction of the Second Temple, it reinforced the western flank of the Temple, hence its traditional Jewish name of the Western Wall (Kotel), and is one of its main remains. It is revered as the wall of the Temple Mount, especially since it is currently the closest place to the Holy of Holies, and is therefore considered by the Jewish people to be the holiest place for prayer.
The artist explores the rites associated with the Elements – water, fire, air – in sanctuaries inhabited by the Spirit. Ablutions and immersions, gestures of purification or prayer of Hindu or Buddhist, Hebrew or Jain, Christian or Muslim faithful, embody matter, and help us to cross the mirrors of appearances to access the Saints of Holies.
Length : 0.39 in / 1 cm
Height : 35.43 in / 90 cm
Width : 23.62 in / 60 cm
Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Categories: Photographs, Living Models
Technique: Digital photography
Support: Pigment print on baryta paper (Canson Fine Art Baritta), laminated on Dibond
Dimensions: 90 x 60 cm
Number of copies: 21 signed and numbered prints
Year: 2012
Inspiration:
The Western Wall is a part of the retaining wall of the Temple Esplanade in Jerusalem, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. Built in the first century A.D. During the completion of the construction of the Second Temple, it reinforced the western flank of the Temple, hence its traditional Jewish name of the Western Wall (Kotel), and is one of its main remains. It is revered as the wall of the Temple Mount, especially since it is currently the closest place to the Holy of Holies, and is therefore considered by the Jewish people to be the holiest place for prayer.
“At the age of 16, I had the revelation of Les Pierres sauvages, an imaginary account by the architect Fernand Pouillon of the construction of the Cistercian Abbey of Thoronet, in Provence. The text translates above all the mystical impulses of a master builder of the Middle Ages and the trials he encounters to tame the material. I thought I had found my vocation: I would be an architect! The first edition was illustrated by some black and white images by Lucien Hervé, who later became Le Corbusier’s photographer. They echoed the book in the Zodiac collection on Catalan Romanesque art owned by my parents, in which Jean Dieuzaide formed my gaze with his deep blacks and phosphorescent whites. During my studies in Toulouse, I discovered the heritage of the Southwest, made of sharp edges, granular stones, hot bricks, sensual warheads. The walls and cloisters often belonged to a palimpsest whose first layers date back to Roman times. Elsewhere, in Greece or Jerusalem, I was sensitive to the fractures of time and the stigmata of history. And seeking to translate its harmony or dissonances, I wrote with light, I became a photographer. The Liturgy of the Hours dictates the encounters of light with stone. Ephemeral, they call for meditation on the energies of visible realities that reveal the invisible. On the sidelines of these fleeting dialogues, the wild stones lacked life. I met her in the rites associated with the other Elements—water, fire, air—in sanctuaries inhabited by the Spirit. Ablutions and immersions, gestures of purification or prayer of the Hindu or Buddhist, Hebrew or Jain, Christian or Muslim faithful, embody matter, and help us to cross the mirrors of appearances to access the Saints of Holies.”
Ferrante Ferranti
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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