Pino Musi

Archeological Bodies
Corpi d'Archeologia
(2010 / 2015)


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This series fostered by the publishing house FMR comes from a vast campaign to honor historical heritage with a number of major Italian photographers such as Basilico, Castella, Jodice, Campigotto who were given total interpretative freedom. Musi's collaborations covered three themes: Ancient Italy, the origins of Christianity and Ancient Greece.
related text:Reflections / Pino Musi
In contemporary photography, the author is inevitably compelled to determine and develop a novel perspective and to elaborate a distinctive gaze, even to translate it into a language or some eloquent specificity. Generally, this can be achieved by avoiding to stroll the streets all night long, or to gaze at motifs whose historical importance, continuously processed for touristic consumption, has generated the notion of stereotype by which mere recognition supplants knowledge, while the gaze, drawn to look at what is being given to see through simplistic templates, is deprived of the true beauty of the sites. Eschewing stereotype, that gaze-dulling kaleidoscopic déjà vu, is a form of necessary precaution, necessity imposed by the mass mediatization of monuments. And yet. Yet these sites belong to our very own civilization, and their forms are those upon which our concept of beauty was founded and educated. What would occur if the claim for the necessary beautiful, for life and intensity in the images, were to be reconsidered along these last premises? What would happen if I, an author, today, were to reconsider my ongoing, constantly renewed and verified assumptions about beauty, from the perspective of an historical paradigm that would acknowledge beauty as being immortal? Because beauty is indeed immortal, having fostered a world and survived both the multiple offenses of the passing of time and of its illustrative marketing, circumventing the kind of disposable gaze so typical of our times. I thus initiated my journey, bringing along my knowledge of images acquired with time, my load of doubts, assumptions, and puzzlement, and challenging critical instances. And I looked at the Coliseum and at the Paestum, at the valley of the temples, at Fori and at basilicas. Scrutinizing, constantly confronting my heritage and its layers of inherited habits and educated indifference, fueling my investigations with historical assumptions that would have a myth made of other arts and of literature, of history and more generally, of civilization, embedded in these stones. Ultimately aiming at recovering a form of faith, the kind of faith so accurately expressed some time ago by the poet Ghiorgos Seferis: “In other terms arises, I believe, faith in these antique signs within their own landscape: faith in the notion that they have a soul.” Clarify. The notion has been with me, deeply nurturing my reflection throughout the journey. Or perhaps acquire an extreme sense of the best framework of conditions and preconditions that are activated at that one moment when I stand before the monument. And to implement, within the dense and tight, concentrated moment of the selection process, what will generate an image out of the magma of possibles, void of rhetoric, of common places or trivial knowledge. To recover, in fine, the authentic purpose for the beauty of these signs, to actually listen to their soul. From there on, my personal Grand Tour adopted a different measure of time and space, confronting antic monuments with a renewed capacity to see, accurately questioning forms, light, and the sites. Feeling utterly modern, only because I am aware of their antiquity, of the reasons for their being, of their chromosomes. Fernando Pessoa once wrote, “The traveler makes the journey, what we see is not what we see but what we are.” Step by step, every time evaluating the specific scale of the locus, I have attempted to decipher the proportions, and the implied disproportions: because the real truth, according to Juan Ramón Jiménez, is that “el infinito / está dentro” [the infinite / lies within].


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Italia Bellezza Eterna
Italia Bellezza e Fede
Grecia. Le radici della civiltà europea


Acropoli. Atene, Grecia 2014
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Sito archeologico. Delfi, Grecia 2014
2 / 63
Sito archeologico. Delfi, Grecia 2014
3 / 63
Sito archeologico. Delos, Grecia 2014
4 / 63
Sito archeologico. Delos, Grecia 2014
5 / 63
Sito archeologico. Delos, Grecia 2014
6 / 63
Sito archeologico. Segesta, Italia 2014
7 / 63
Sito archeologico. Epidauro, Grecia 2014
8 / 63
Sito archeologico. Efeso, Turchia 2014
9 / 63
Sito archeologico. Efeso, Turchia 2014
10 / 63
Sito archeologico. Paestum, Italia 2010
11 / 63
Sito archeologico. Paestum, Italia 2010
12 / 63
Sito archeologico. Paestum, Italia 2010
13 / 63
Sito archeologico. Paestum, Italia 2010
14 / 63
Sito archeologico. Cerveteri, Italia 2010
15 / 63
Sito archeologico. Cerveteri, Italia 2010
16 / 63
Sito archeologico. Cerveteri, Italia 2010
17 / 63
Sito archeologico. Cerveteri, Italia 2010
18 / 63
Valle dei Templi. Agrigento, Italia 2010
19 / 63
Qaṣr al-Kharāna, Giordania 2019
20 / 63
Qaṣr al-Kharāna, Giordania 2019
21 / 63
Qaṣr al-Kharāna, Giordania 2019
22 / 63
Valle dei Templi. Agrigento, Italia 2010
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Valle dei Templi. Agrigento, Italia 2010
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Archeological Bodies<br>Corpi d'Archeologia<br>(2010 / 2015)
25 / 63
Chiesa di San Giovanni alle Catacombe. Siracusa, Italia 2010
26 / 63
Villa Adriana. Tivoli, Italia 2010
27 / 63
Villa Adriana. Tivoli, Italia 2010
28 / 63
Villa Adriana. Tivoli, Italia 2010
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Villa Adriana. Tivoli, Italia 2010
30 / 63
Villa Adriana. Tivoli, Italia 2010
31 / 63
Villa Adriana. Tivoli, Italia 2010
32 / 63
Latomia del Paradiso (Orecchio di Dionisio). Siracusa, Italia 2010
33 / 63
Cuma. Campi Flegrei, Italia (1990) 2015
34 / 63
Tempio dell'Eco. Baia, Campi Flegrei, Italia c/a 1990
35 / 63
Cisterne Romane. Fermo, 1999
36 / 63
Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
37 / 63
Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
38 / 63
Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
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Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
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Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
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Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
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Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
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Sito archeologico. Pompei, Italia 2010
44 / 63
Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
45 / 63
Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
46 / 63
Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
47 / 63
Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
48 / 63
Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
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Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
50 / 63
Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
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Fori Imperiali. Roma, Italia 2010
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Colosseo. Roma, Italia 2010
53 / 63
Pantheon. Roma, Italia 2010
54 / 63
Basilica di Santo Stefano. Bologna, Italia 2011
55 / 63
Basilica di Santo Stefano. Bologna, Italia 2011
56 / 63
Basilica. Trani, Italia 2011
57 / 63
Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin. Roma, Italia 2011
58 / 63
Basilica. Aquileia, Italia 2011
59 / 63
Basilica. Aquileia, Italia 2011
60 / 63
Basilica. Aquileia, Italia 2011
61 / 63
Basilica di San Vitale. Ravenna, Italia 2011
62 / 63
Archeological Bodies<br>Corpi d'Archeologia<br>(2010 / 2015)
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