(ANSA) – ROME, OCTOBER 29 – Forty images that re-read biblical iconography to investigate the spirituality of the human soul in the contemporary era: ‘Sacro Profano’ is the personal exhibition of the artist photographer Roberto Rocco, curated by the critic of art Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico and set up from 28 October in Milan, in the former Church of San Carpoforo of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
After having exhibited in Art Basel and having immortalized the most important Italian and international stars such as Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Robert de Niro, Madonna, Monica Bellucci, Claudia Cardinale and many others, in the period of the pandemic Rocco dedicated himself to a new photographic production, creating 40 works, 16 of which are exhibited, the others projected. “Rocco confronts himself with biblical iconographies – explains the curator Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico – proposing a contemporary reinterpretation.
A careful reconstruction of environments, costumes and movements make each photograph a sort of visual transposition of tableau vivant in the form of theatrical scenographies, where the apparent desecration of the original theological iconographic structure is shipwrecked in a new narrative path, in which the themes sacred are, so to speak, ‘worldly’, however sanctioning a natural distance that nullifies any form of contamination and immersing the observer in an aesthetic and emotional experience unprecedented in the contemporary art panorama “.
The exhibition takes place as part of the Music and Photography initiative of the Master Soundart of the Ard & Nt Institute (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and Politecnico di Milano) and the Course of History of Music and Musical Theater, with the involvement of students who they will create a sound installation inspired by the artist’s works. (HANDLE).
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