Il Libro di Luce
Collage, Symbol / Letter, 90x90x05cm
Letizia Ardillo
The Book of Light, 2017
Mixed technique and collage made up of pages of ancient texts on paper, cm 90 x 90
The work presented (consisting of fragments of pages taken from old books) focuses on the cancellation of the written text leading to the annulment of the book itself.
In this process of becoming the word becomes a sign that lasts only as a trace of light.
The repetition of the gesture cancelling the writing, implements an infinite discourse where only the essential traits survive and remains only the intimate essence of the book: the light
The work is inspired by a particular event that happened recently in Naples: after 600 years of oblivion, the "Book of Light" willed by Alfonso d'Aragona inside the Male Angioino was reopened. In the summer solstice, light enter from the largest window in the Hall of Barons of Castel Nuovo and the solar radius create on the opposite wall a circle arc, as light turns into what seems to be the shape of a book open, an image that returns several times in the castle. Starting from this phenomenon, Salvatore Forte, Francesco Afro De Falco and Annalisa Direttore, have noted that the mysterious image of an open book hit by the sun's rays appears in the entrance portal of the castle, in the throne room and even in the paintings depicting Alfonso.
Salvatore Forte explain: "Esoterically the open book can represent the revealed knowledge, therefore, the phenomenon of the sun in the ancient throne hall cannot be a case."
The Book of Light, 2017
Mixed technique and collage made up of pages of ancient texts on paper, cm 90 x 90
The work presented (consisting of fragments of pages taken from old books) focuses on the cancellation of the written text leading to the annulment of the book itself.
In this process of becoming the word becomes a sign that lasts only as a trace of light.
The repetition of the gesture cancelling the writing, implements an infinite discourse where only the essential traits survive and remains only the intimate essence of the book: the light
The work is inspired by a particular event that happened recently in Naples: after 600 years of oblivion, the "Book of Light" willed by Alfonso d'Aragona inside the Male Angioino was reopened. In the summer solstice, light enter from the largest window in the Hall of Barons of Castel Nuovo and the solar radius create on the opposite wall a circle arc, as light turns into what seems to be the shape of a book open, an image that returns several times in the castle. Starting from this phenomenon, Salvatore Forte, Francesco Afro De Falco and Annalisa Direttore, have noted that the mysterious image of an open book hit by the sun's rays appears in the entrance portal of the castle, in the throne room and even in the paintings depicting Alfonso.
Salvatore Forte explain: "Esoterically the open book can represent the revealed knowledge, therefore, the phenomenon of the sun in the ancient throne hall cannot be a case."
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