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DANILO MAURO MALATESTA © (Chicago, 1966)
Rumore bianco – Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Triptych, 2023
Ambrotype on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 paper
25x25 cm each. With frame and museum glass
Danilo Mauro Malatesta, artist and photojournalist, uses the ancient technique of ambrotyping to narrate a moment of rebirth. The glass, sensitised with wet collodion, reflects the image of the sublime mythological violence of the Baroque, a defenceless and desperate Proserpine in Pluto's strong grip. By breaking the plate, the artist intervenes in that gripping grip, breaks that violence and all that it brings with it, that which in Bernini's marble, some forget to grasp. The chromatic manipulation applied in the contact print of the shattered slab alludes to the journey to Hades and the subsequent, arduous ascent.
The triptych on auction is the only reworking produced by the artist of the work on permanent solo exhibition in the Oratorio of Santa Silvia in the Rectory Church of Sant'Andrea al Celio, among the frescoes by Guido Reni and Domenichino. It is a reproduction and not a copy because the complex technique of contact printing on broken plates inevitably involves variations, which makes each print unique and unrepeatable.
The lot will not be on exhibition. For any information on condition please write to: p.aloisio@bertolamifineart.com
The lot will not be on exhibition. For any information on condition please write to: p.aloisio@bertolamifineart.com
Exhibitions:
Rumore Bianco's series was awarded the Panchina Rossa (Red Bench) prize against violence against women during the last ‘Festival Popoli e Religioni’ in Terni, Italy, and was immediately exhibited at the ‘Spazio Europa’ in Via Nazionale in Rome, at the invitation of the European Parliament office in Italy and the European Commission Representation in Italy, on the occasion of the ‘#Orange The World’ week against violence against women, in the presence of all the ambassadors accredited in Italy and at the Holy See. It was also recently on display at Palazzo Santo Stefano in Padua.
Rumore Bianco's series was awarded the Panchina Rossa (Red Bench) prize against violence against women during the last ‘Festival Popoli e Religioni’ in Terni, Italy, and was immediately exhibited at the ‘Spazio Europa’ in Via Nazionale in Rome, at the invitation of the European Parliament office in Italy and the European Commission Representation in Italy, on the occasion of the ‘#Orange The World’ week against violence against women, in the presence of all the ambassadors accredited in Italy and at the Holy See. It was also recently on display at Palazzo Santo Stefano in Padua.
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MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART:
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19th, 20th, 21th CENTURY
Including a selection of 20th Century Ceramics
Palazzo Caetani Lovatelli, thu 5 December 2024
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