NAIGAI "Tokyo 365 Project" - B13873 Unique Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

A work completely shot in Tokyo. They are all facades of buildings and urban landscapes. Naigai means inside and outside and creates a continuous cross-reference between the exterior of the buildings and the life that teems inside. "In canto XVII Dante is still in the Heaven of Mars when, with Cacciaguida degli Elisei he addresses the complex question of predestination: the prophecies are a perfectly woven plot which, however, does not determine man's actions but only the context in which men act. With Naigai Virginio Favale arrived at his Heaven of Mars. After Shinjuku and the shared dream of a super world with Naigai, we move on to graphic-enigmatic constructions in which, as in a logical-spatial loom, plots and perfectly ordered warps of perfectly designed architectures are woven. There is something ancestral in these futuristic yet archaic visions, prophetic signs traced through a pagan liturgy that alludes to divine omens. And here it is the "weft in that canvas that I placed warp" with which Dante in the words of Cacciaguida deals with predestination. Virginio makes it the context in which men act with free will. On the other hand, no cobweb is woven specifically for an insect that gets entangled in it for a series of reasons that depend only on him. This is why those graphic (and photographic) threads take us back to a ritual that refers to oracles and predictions in which we perceive the work of the Fates "who spin lives for you mortals" and that of Penelope whose "plot" worked for years becoming a symbol of deception but also strategy. In Virginio's "signs" we thus read an ancestral yet current metaphor of existence: a game of taut threads that are a masterpiece of light and engineering, an astonishing succession of perfect weaves that are extremely fragile yet capable of withstanding weights, pressures and hurricanes, a dense and viscous texture which, however, from a distance appears sharp, essential, very clear." Text by Silvia Sfrecola Romani

Photography:Color on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:47.2 W x 35.4 H x 0.1 D in

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