ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The artist Edoardo Tresoldi used in 2016 wire mash to rebuilt  the Christian church of the archaeological site of Siponto, a port area in South Italy.
The huge installation ( same scale as the original architecture ) is located on the ruins of the church built in the Roman times between 11th and 12th century, destroyed due to the earthquake of the 13th century.
Tresoldi is specialized in large-scale wire sculptures: " The brief was the reconstruction of the basilica, but there are no sure elements about the structure and the size of it so Edoardo had some freedom into the creative process " explained the curator of this project, Simone Pallotta.
This work of Edoardo Tresoldi appears as a majestic architecture / sculpture able to hint about the volumes of the Christian church demolished by the earthquake, at the same time it is able to narrate, vivify updating it, the relationship between ancient and contemporary, subverting the trivial perception of this environment, which is built through the transparency of the material. The wire mesh reconstructing the architecture simultaneously makes visible all the layers that made the old building, materializing simultaneously interior and an exterior, to form a single visual composition, where the art and the nature interact each other, interpenetrating themselves, never debauching each other.
My photographic interpretation of this work of art narrates through the use of expired films the play of transparency, of the reconstruction of the past that does not alter any future, present or past time, it doesn’t disturb nature, indeed my photo emphasizes the immersion in a vision that obviously appears genuine, the observer is abstracted, bringing them to a place without certain time, a metaphysical space, creating the doubt: whether all this is real or a digital reconstruction.

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