PANTHEON, ROME, ITALY (2020)
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Photograph of the Pantheon 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 : 36.61 in / 93 cm
Width : 55.12 in / 140 cm
Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique: Digital color photography
Support: Fine Art Pearl paper laminated on dibond, black oak artbox mounting
Dimensions: 93 x 140 cm
Number of copies: 21 signed and numbered prints
Year: 2020
Inspiration: Taken in 2020, this photograph of the Pantheon reveals Ferrante Ferranti’s architectural and spiritual reading of ancient monuments. Under the perfect dome, the ray of light crossing the oculus becomes the axis of the world, a measure of time and an almost cosmic presence. In a building emptied of its visitors, the silence amplifies the perception of the luminous phenomenon: the sun, hitting the marble floor, reverberates and casts a warm light on the columns and cornices of the entrance. The stone then seems to be covered with an immaterial gilding. This optical illusion, thought up by the designers of the monument, helped to magnify the emperor’s passage under the dome: at the precise moment when the light penetrated through the oculus, the architecture itself seemed to be ablaze, giving its silhouette a divine aura.
Ferranti captures this suspended moment where light becomes matter and where sacred space comes alive with an invisible presence. The image does not only document a monument: it reveals the solar theatre imagined by Antiquity, where marble, geometry and the star compose a staging of power and the sacred.
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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