Sal e Rond nei medaglioni cosmici – (Luca Maria Patella) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Luca Maria Patella

Museum: Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale. Collezione Farnesina (Rome, Italy)

Technique: Photograph

Patella is an hypnotic teller of deftly interwoven tales. The “cosmic medallions”exhibited here are just two passages from the complex sidereal story that the artistcalls Mysterium Coniunctionis, a work developed over eleven years, during whichhe reconstructed the astronomical representations of Coronelli, cosmographer tothe Sun King, and the “open skies” of his father, the cosmologist Luigi Patella. Thework consists of numerous elements that are selected in order to relate a possible“mythocosmobiography”. The works exhibited are stellar mandalas with the profilesof Sal and Rond, the figures with which Luca and his wife Rosa Foschiidentify, in their respective centres. Here they stage the “mystery of the conjunction”of opposites, sun and moon, south and north, consciousness and the unconscious,male and female – from the centre of two “round heavens”. The meetingof Sal and Rond gives rise to complexity, adventure, love and thought. This serves,according to the artist, to make the wheels of universal and personal time turn.(PATELLA, 1984, pp. 3-8). (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma) Bibl: Bibl: L.M. PATELLA, Manière de montrer les ouvres célestes du mysterium coniunctionis, Roma 1984.