PANTHEON, ROME (1997)
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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 : 0.39 in / 1 cm
Height : 27.56 in / 70 cm
Width : 19.69 in / 50 cm
Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique: Digital photography
Support: Barium print on Fine Art pearl paper.
Supervision: Beveled passepartout and black lacquered frame under anti-glare glass.
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm (frame) – 53 x 36 (print)
Number of copies: 21, signed and numbered
Year: 1997
Inspiration: Taken in 1997, this black and white photograph is part of the film period of Ferrante Ferranti’s work, where contrast becomes language. At the heart of the Pantheon, the oculus opens the dome to the sky and lets in a beam of light that crosses the space like an immaterial column.
Deprived of the distraction of colors, the gaze focuses on the perfect geometry of the place: the sovereign curve of the dome, the rigor of the coffers, the balance of the masses. Light sculpts the architecture, hollows out the shadows, reveals the depth of the volume and transforms the stone into a vibrant material.
In the silence of an almost timeless monument, Ferranti captures the moment when the star, by entering through the oculus, animates the building with a cosmic presence. The Pantheon then appears as a solar chamber, a space where time is measured by the course of light.
Through this stripped-down and meditative image, the artist restores the sacred dimension of the monument: a dialogue between heaven and earth, between shadow and light, where architecture becomes an instrument of revelation.
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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