work
Photo-graphie 493/2000
| category | Photography |
| subject | Human figure |
| tags | |
| base | 40 cm |
| height | 30 cm |
| depth | 0 cm |
| year | 2005 |
The photographic images are superimposed by passages taken from the "Album della Vittoria", text by Angelo Tanzella who, in 1920, published this book with the aim of bringing together the thoughts of great personalities on the unity of Italy. The various authors express their thoughts in passages written in calligraphic style.
The immediate perception of the image leads the viewer to the decoding of the text that is often not legible, in fact it is not allowed to know the topic of the quoted passage. Quotations estranged from their context and transported to another lose their original meaning. Thus the illusion of being able to read and understand the passages is overcome, but one observes the work more carefully and discovers what lies behind the immediate visible. The spectator's eye is thus called to be seduced. In an instant everything becomes invisible, meaningless ... but at that very moment it acquires it ... it acquires your meaning. The gaze walks between the written words, like lines that take the eye for a walk (P. Klee), like fluid waves that bring the past to the surface, history begins to flow again in the present and marries and collides with personal history of the subjects. The father of the direction of these text lines is thought, no longer that of the author of the passage, but that of the person portrayed.
Roberta Gianni
The immediate perception of the image leads the viewer to the decoding of the text that is often not legible, in fact it is not allowed to know the topic of the quoted passage. Quotations estranged from their context and transported to another lose their original meaning. Thus the illusion of being able to read and understand the passages is overcome, but one observes the work more carefully and discovers what lies behind the immediate visible. The spectator's eye is thus called to be seduced. In an instant everything becomes invisible, meaningless ... but at that very moment it acquires it ... it acquires your meaning. The gaze walks between the written words, like lines that take the eye for a walk (P. Klee), like fluid waves that bring the past to the surface, history begins to flow again in the present and marries and collides with personal history of the subjects. The father of the direction of these text lines is thought, no longer that of the author of the passage, but that of the person portrayed.
Roberta Gianni
