Buenos Aires. The Italian Institute of Culture presents the city of Palermo to the public in Buenos Aires to celebrate Palermo as the Italian Capital of Culture this year. The exhibition “Palermo svelata. Architettura arabo-normanna e barocca” (Palermo Unveiled. Arabic-Norman and Baroque Architecture) – which will be inaugurated tomorrow at 19:00 at the IIC – is a new journey through cultural, architectural, and stylistic stratification of the city which has been immortalised by Francesco Ferla’s photographs which also reveal the complexity of Arabic-Norman and Byzantine Architecture and its tie to the Baroque period. The exhibition is characterised by the images uniqueness taken from the surrounding architectural context – in a “sublimation” of architecture that highlights the archetypal value of these monuments. Arab-Norman and Baroque architecture “- to be inaugurated tomorrow at 7.00 pm at the Institute – is an unprecedented journey through the cultural, architectural and stylistic stratification of the city, immortalized by Francesco Ferla’s photographs, which allow us to discover the complexity of Arab architecture -normal and Byzantine, and its link with the Baroque period. The characterizing element of the exhibition is the particularity of the images, abstracted from the surrounding architectural context, in an operation of “sublimation” of the architecture that highlights the archetypal value of the monuments. This way, Ferla manages to emphasize the amazing multiethnic language of Palermo accompanying the viewer to the discovery of a world famous city but of which, paradoxically, many aspects of its art and architecture have remained hidden from may people’s eyes. (9Colonne)
