Ferrante Ferranti atelier visit
Text: Dominique Fernandez
Photo: Ferrante Ferranti
What do Bernini’s Proserpine, a Sicilian horse, an Indian Pilgrimage and a girl skipping in a Guatemalan courtyard have in common? This is the secret of Ferranti’s photography: he is able to reveal the same current of strength and beauty running through different civilizations. Southern Italian by birth, architect by training, traveler by choice, Ferrante Ferranti has produced a distinctive body of work: capturing the play of light and shadows, giving meaning to simple shapes, inventing a language which casts the sun’s light on ruins and communicates the reverential silence in the presence of stone, as well as the enchanted diversions of wandering.
Photo: Ferrante Ferranti
What do Bernini’s Proserpine, a Sicilian horse, an Indian Pilgrimage and a girl skipping in a Guatemalan courtyard have in common? This is the secret of Ferranti’s photography: he is able to reveal the same current of strength and beauty running through different civilizations. Southern Italian by birth, architect by training, traveler by choice, Ferrante Ferranti has produced a distinctive body of work: capturing the play of light and shadows, giving meaning to simple shapes, inventing a language which casts the sun’s light on ruins and communicates the reverential silence in the presence of stone, as well as the enchanted diversions of wandering.
Ferrante Ferranti was born in 1960 in Algeria to a Sardinian mother and Sicilian father. He began travelling in 1978 and took his first photographs in Greece, Turkey and Egypt. He received his diploma in architecture in Paris in 1985 with a thesis on the theatre and scenography from the Baroque era. He has published around thirty books of photographs with the authors Jean-Yves Leloup, Andrei Makine, Giovanni Careri, Shashi Tharoor and most importantly, Dominique Fernandez, whose Errances Solaires inspired this exhibition. Ferrante Ferranti has exhibited his photographs the world over, from Arles to Zagreb, taking in Bogota, Saint Petersburg, New Delhi, Tunis, even Aleppo and Montevideo.
For an exceptional private exhibition of Ferrante Ferranti’s work, visit an artist’s atelier until January 17, 2010.
Atelier 7
For an exceptional private exhibition of Ferrante Ferranti’s work, visit an artist’s atelier until January 17, 2010.
Atelier 7
242 Boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris
Thursday to Sunday from 3-7pm and by appointment
For more information contact Louise Brody at +33 6 14 21 48 12
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