We have designed Il Divino, the first in a tribute collection which makes emblematic statuary figures shine, as a luminous Tondo.
This abandoned marble figure, torn between ecstasy and suffering, life and death, places ambiguity at the heart of the project.
Stone and light; the fleeting and the enduring; every aspect contradicts the next in an attempt to convey the mixed feelings of this delicate instability
And yet, this transfixed face still preserves some sign of life: a few eyelashes, a tear … Its enigmatic smile is illuminated by a sun mask, defying Nature, which is already regaining possession of the figure’s body.
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The confusion between stone & skin provokes an equivocal emotion
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photography by P-E Saillard
Thanks to all of the team at ibride.