Ferrante FERRANTI (b. 1960)
Ruins of Santa Clara... Lot 36
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Ferrante FERRANTI (b. 1960)
Ruins of Santa Clara Church, Antigua Guatemala, 2002
Signed photographic print
40x60cm
I published this photograph in my book L'esprit des ruines with the following commentary:
The nave was deserted and I framed to harmonize the curve of the shadows with those of the collapsed vault.
The little girl burst out of the crypt, rounded me, then flew away, fluttering her scarf, before leaving the stones inhabited by a breath.
And I resonated with the following quote:
"Today and tomorrow, a ruined church is and will be an empty tomb whose stone has shattered, rolled onto the grass, to the astonishment of passers-by.
A tomb where the sun had been thought to be enclosed, where it rises, shattering the vaults, leaving beneath the cradles of the broken naves a great lesson in darkness."
François Cali, The Church of Ruins
Ferrante Ferranti is a photographer and writer. Trained as an architect, his Écritures de Lumière (Writings of Light) is inspired by his approach to travel, art and heritage.
Born in Algeria in 1960 to a Sardinian mother and Sicilian father, Ferrante Ferranti qualified as an architect in Paris in 1985, before devoting himself to photography.
For the past thirty-five years, Ferranti has been working with Dominique Fernandez, a member of the Académie Française, on a joint exploration of the Baroque and the different strata of civilization, his photos interacting with the writer's texts, from Sicily to St. Petersburg, from Syria to Bolivia. In 2000, he illustrated the reissue of Mère Méditerranée, published in 1952 and now a classic of travel literature.
He has photographed some forty books on Italy and the Mediterranean (as well as Syria, Libya, Algeria and ancient Turkey), Russia, Bolivia, Portugal, Brazil and India. All his work bears witness to his interest in the meeting of civilizations.
Author of:
- Lire la photographie, Bréal, 2002
- L'esprit des ruines, Chêne, 2005
- Athos, la Sainte Montagne, Desclées de Brouwer, 2015
and co-author of:
- Les pierres vivantes (with Brother Philippe Markiewicz), Philippe Rey, 2005
- Les ancêtres liés aux étoiles (with visual artist Rachid Koraïchi), Actes sud, 2008
- L'Imaginaire des Ruines (with visual artist Patrice Alexandre), Actes Sud, 2009
- Empreintes du Sacré (with Olivier Germain-Thomas), La Martinière, 2012
A lecturer at the Université d'Artois (Arras), he has taught Hispanic civilization and conducts cycles on the History of Art. From 2014 to 2021, he directed a photography reading workshop at Sciences Po Paris, and has taught at L'Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers since 2015.
Official photographer of the CNSMDP since 2010, he was elected corresponding member of the Bordeaux Academy of Fine Arts in 2018.
He has exhibited in Paris (Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Italian Cultural Institute, Maison Européenne de la Photographie) and in France; in the FNAC photo galleries (in France, Belgium and Spain
France, Belgium and Spain, in Brazil); in Italy, Spain, Germany, Romania, Russia, Syria, India, Indonesia, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia, Portugal, Japan, El Salvador, Brazil and Mexico, Pakistan; in London, Oslo, Vilnius, Prague, Budapest, Zagreb, Algiers, Tunis, Havana, Antigua (Guatemala), Panama, San Jose (Costa Rica), Caracas and Montevideo.
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris, devoted its first retrospective to him, "Itinerrances", from June 25 to September 15, 2013, repeated in 2015 at the Base sous-marine de Bordeaux in 2015.
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