Some stories remain forever engraved.

These are stories contained in the most famous sculptural works in the world. Human and legendary stories, written with the skillful chisel of the great masters of Art that will remain forever in our eyes and in our hearts.

I have always loved photographing Statues. Capturing their still breath as they come to life in front of my lenses. Going around them with the curious eyes of a child full of amazement and fascination. Grasping the imperceptible vibrations of the hand and soul of those who sculpted them. Experimenting with different angles, to highlight those expressions that do not appear at first glance.

The emotions contained in the body of Art.

Statues are my ideal models. Their bodies seem to come alive even if still, making the invisible visible: joy, pain, strength, ferocity, resignation, sweetness, shyness, audacity, courage, sensuality.

Feelings that live in the faces, gestures and movements fixed in the minds of the great artists who sculpted them, such as Michelangelo’s Pietà or Sanmartino’s Veiled Christ.

Among all the statues that I have had the pleasure to immortalize, there is one to which I am particularly attached. It is the Angel of Grief which is located at the top of the Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome, in Testaccio. A moving work that contains the immense pain of the artist, the sculptor William Wetmore Story, who sculpted it in memory of his beloved deceased wife.

Its majestic wings, instead of rising straight to the sky, are curved and sadly abandoned on the ground, with no strength nor hope, transmitting an intense feeling of suffering to the viewer.

My passionate dialogue with sculpture. 

I have always loved Sculpture in all its forms and expressions. Photographing it is my way of getting in touch and communicating with the universal language of art. An experience that is not only physical and aesthetical, but intensely personal, capable of involving me on a very deep emotional level. A special bond that goes beyond matter, beyond space and time. Because as explained by a very dear friend of mine, Serena Tallarigo, when speaking of the intimate nature of her works:

Nature like art intervenes by modifying engraved surfaces, cut between disturbing thicknesses, dug between stratified memories, smoothed between hidden fears. Then it suddenly emerges like a continent from the ocean: the work is no longer in me. Time takes everything away. Everything is transformed in the time of “history”: images of lived stories, unspoken poems, declared loves, solidified tears […].

Let’s spend this weekend together in the historical city centers.

There is no need to enter museums to admire the masterpieces of ancient and classical art. Just take a walk in the historical centers of our cities, whose streets and squares are real open-air museums,  populated with beautiful statues to be discovered!

If you want to take a ride with me and observe them from another perspective, I invite you to visit my Instagram profile.

Have a good FRAday!