marco delogu

Cardinals

In Marco Delogu’s Cardinals there are few ‘half-shades’. This “nigredo”, on which Marco Delogu always works, and here more pointedly than ever, has many functions, like the ancient alchemical nigredo. It shows the effort of the looking in order to form the image, it shows how the obscure, that which remains in in the shadow, is in itself an image, and that the eye that looks should not stop and be stranded in what is immediatly visible.
If photography is always pure contingency, an emanation of immanence, transience illusorily arrested, then it is against all this that the photographer of the Cardinals wants to fight. And the shadow is his weapon. The shadow that each person carries rescues the figure from its inherent poverty, it preserves it from the ephemeral two-dimensionality of the image and it places it within sculptural space. Monumental and at the same time a space of contrast, a historical and not a decorative space.
Elisabetta Rasy

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