Palazzo Cucchiari hosts 30 extraordinary photographs dedicated to the work of the divine Michelangelo by Aurelio Amendola, one of the masters of contemporary photography.
True and authentic depictions of very famous sculptures, the photographs by Amendola look at the Michelangelo’s marbles from a new point of view which pays attention to the language of the sculpture and the quality of material, but it is also full of feelings and pathos for the humanity of Michelangleo’s figures.
Extraordinary marbles give life to sinuous shapes for which Amendola exalts not only the anatomic details. He is also able to have the viewer feel the surge of the skin, as to suggest the life pulse of bodies, which are only for a moment, as Michelangelo would say, imprisoned into “alpine and hard stone.”
Everything has been done with no trick, with the elegant simplicity of black and white images, in which the hand of Michelangelo and the extraordinary sentiment of Amendola’s light interact perfectly.
The exhibition will be hosted under the vaults of the underground floor of the Palace, whose restoration has been completed and which is opened to the public for the first time.