Geometrie esistenziali (Existential Geometries)

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Alongside Pastorello’s exhibition, the exhibition Geometrie esistenziali (Existential Geometries) by photographer Francesco Cubeddu will be on display on 1 June. A paraglider and paramotor pilot, he deals with aerial photography with a particular predilection for archaeological sites and the island’s territory in general. Although he does not consider himself an artist, he achieves, with his photographic images, aesthetic results of a poetic poignancy capable of concretising and giving measure to that dream called Sardinia. Francesco Cubeddu flies over the land lightly and captures images that transcend their photographic origin and, thanks to a privileged perspective, acquire a tactile and pictorial appearance of incomparable suggestion: the photographer’s attentive eye is able to identify those textures of the land that give life to a disorienting and deliberately ambiguous visual quest. They are reeds and rice paddies, luxuriant citrus groves and parched wheat fields, freshly ploughed land and uncultivated areas marked by rare rocky outcrops or quilted with Mediterranean shrubs, pools of limestone water or expanses of salt with dazzling whiteness. The curator Ivo Serafino Fenu writes: “It would be reductive to confine these images to the sphere of nature photography, albeit of quality, because each photogram takes on visual values that go beyond mere objective data and rather touch upon the territories of the noblest aniconic art, with its meditated relationships between chromatic backgrounds, its inlays of forms and its interweavings of lines whose resonances are amplified in the deep spaces of interiority rather than in the appearance of the senses”.

Francesco Cubeddu was born in Seneghe (OR) in 1956. An excursionist, paraglider and paramotor pilot since 1992, he has been involved in aerial photography with a particular predilection for archaeological sites and the Sardinian territory. He has collaborated, with articles and photos, with Delta & Parapendio from 1994 to 2006; with ‘In Sardegna’, a periodical on tourism, environment and culture, since 1994; and with ‘Volo Libero’ and ‘Hobby Volo’.

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