ANTONELLO DA MESSINA. MARCO DELOGU

A photographic exhibition.

“Anyone who decides to do portraits always has the works of the great masters in mind, and much of that ‘painterly’ quality was undoubtedly part of my own sensibility… The exercise was simple: to contrast portraits I created at the end of the last century with the masterpieces of Antonello da Messina, which I first saw and photographed at the 2006 retrospective in Rome. This exhibition is exactly that: a direct confrontation with the works of Antonello da Messina. How many of my portraits have been influenced by the great classics? Consciously, none. But when the unconscious takes over, unexpected things emerge.”
– Marco Delogu