Italia assoluta 5/6
The Italia assoluta series takes the reader on a journey that not only accompanies the path once travelled by Stendhal, but updates it, placing it in dialogue with other ‘tours’ embarked upon over subsequent centuries that also toyed with the concepts of true and false. Such as that by Luigi Ghirri in 1977, documented through his project In scala, and those later undertaken by Joan Fontcuberta and Matteo Guidi. The passion for the vrai-faux of the ‘Italia in Miniatura’ theme park also concerns the artist behind this series, who compares himself to his illustrious predecessors. Readers thus find themselves on a journey unfolding in stages and over time, through the famous places and renowned icons of the Bel Paese, following absurd and giddying changes of scale. Stendhal, in his observations of architecture, always sought elements of the absolute, and it is easy to pick out such criteria in these photographs: monumental works yet ones greatly reduced in scale.
Photographs by delfino_sl dsl__studio
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