Giulia De Marchi's Etna Photographs: Black and White Sublime
Giulia De Marchi presents a series of 15 black-and-white photographs of Mount Etna, capturing the volcano as a primordial meeting of beauty and terror. The images emphasize the smallness of human figures against the vast, active landscape, reflecting on the contrast between the infernal interior and paradisiacal exterior. De Marchi's work, published on Artribune, includes a reference to Patrick Brydone's 18th-century travelogue describing Etna as both hell and paradise. The series is available on her website.
Key facts
- Giulia De Marchi created 15 black-and-white photographs of Mount Etna.
- The series is titled 'Vulcano'.
- The photographs emphasize human figures as small silhouettes against the volcano.
- De Marchi describes Etna as an encounter between black and white, paradise and hell.
- The article includes a quote from Patrick Brydone's 'A Tour Through Sicily and Malta'.
- The work was featured on Artribune in December 2020.
- De Marchi is a self-taught photographer born in Treviso in 1990.
- The series is available at giuliademarchi.com/vulcano.
Entities
Artists
- Giulia De Marchi
- Patrick Brydone
Institutions
- Artribune
Locations
- Mount Etna
- Sicily
- Italy
- Treviso