work
from the series Volcano’s Ubiquity (a diptych of San Francesco di Paola)
| category | Photography |
| subject | Landscape, Beauty, Architecture |
| tags | |
| base | 156 cm |
| height | 110 cm |
| depth | 5 cm |
| year | 2017 |
Volcano's Ubiquity
Like most foreign travelers reporting from Naples back home, Fucini yields to the Vesuvius’ centripetal power awarding it a prominent place within his epistolary. As such, his own spellbound gaze is symmetrically aligned to that of the myriads of grand tourists and tourists which have for centuries perpetuated that well-known image of the volcano dominating the Southern Italian capital - an image which still now prevails amongst descriptions of the Neapolitan gulf. In Volcano’s Ubiquity, however, Jacopo Valentini departs from this tradition to look at the volcano from a different, perhaps more elusive standpoint. His inquiry into ‘vulcanicity’ abandons the aesthetic of the picturesque to register the Vesuvius’ symbolic, material and cultural refractions.
fabrizio ballabio
inkjet print, 3+2pa, paper applied on aluminium with white hand-painted wooden frame
Like most foreign travelers reporting from Naples back home, Fucini yields to the Vesuvius’ centripetal power awarding it a prominent place within his epistolary. As such, his own spellbound gaze is symmetrically aligned to that of the myriads of grand tourists and tourists which have for centuries perpetuated that well-known image of the volcano dominating the Southern Italian capital - an image which still now prevails amongst descriptions of the Neapolitan gulf. In Volcano’s Ubiquity, however, Jacopo Valentini departs from this tradition to look at the volcano from a different, perhaps more elusive standpoint. His inquiry into ‘vulcanicity’ abandons the aesthetic of the picturesque to register the Vesuvius’ symbolic, material and cultural refractions.
fabrizio ballabio
inkjet print, 3+2pa, paper applied on aluminium with white hand-painted wooden frame
