Rome

Fülszöveg

Out of a confusion of forms and colours, after the crisis of the Renaissance, a combination of two quite different elements, water and stone, began to take on a more precise shape, From forms that we would call larval, through ever more complicated developments and reál "mutations", a precise phe-nomenon, in every sense of the word, gradually emerged. The Fountains of Romé were being crea-ted out of a strange unión between water and stone, the most unique and originál form of this kind of art. These photographs show all the aspects of the inimitable and unrepeatable parabola of this now vanished art during the course of three whole centuries.
L.Z.
It seems to me that the autochthonous traveller, Giancarlo Gasponi, knows all this very well. In fact, the water and the stone of his fountains, so splendidly photographed - with the love and under-standing of a true Román - do not reveal only themselves. Of course, the colour of the water sometimes creates surprising light effects,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Out of a confusion of forms and colours, after the crisis of the Renaissance, a combination of two quite different elements, water and stone, began to take on a more precise shape, From forms that we would call larval, through ever more complicated developments and reál "mutations", a precise phe-nomenon, in every sense of the word, gradually emerged. The Fountains of Romé were being crea-ted out of a strange unión between water and stone, the most unique and originál form of this kind of art. These photographs show all the aspects of the inimitable and unrepeatable parabola of this now vanished art during the course of three whole centuries.
L.Z.
It seems to me that the autochthonous traveller, Giancarlo Gasponi, knows all this very well. In fact, the water and the stone of his fountains, so splendidly photographed - with the love and under-standing of a true Román - do not reveal only themselves. Of course, the colour of the water sometimes creates surprising light effects, such as - when seen from above - certain patches of blue or green; of course, through the triumphant jets of water that the air moves playfully, the faces of the statues that produce or support them seem to stare with a consciously blank expression that is truly amazing; of course, the basins of water, which sometimes appear to be grotesque miniatu-res of something much larger and sometimes as vast as real lakes, always reveal the beauty of the marble and the virtuosity and fantasy of the artist -all this is true. However, it is alsó true that Gaspo-ni's photographs reveal, above all, the city itself. Because it is always the city that appears behind the sparkling waters of its fountains. It is the reddish walls of the palazzos in Piazza Navona, and the intense, pearly grey of the Palazzo Farne-se, it is the orange and brown of the nineteenth century buildings, it is the wooded slopes of the Janiculum, all the palazzos, streets, churches, sky and trees of Rome.
G.M Vissza