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Napex 630302 Napoli Explosion
Here, light seems to stretch until it becomes matter: a horizontal veil where gold, red, and yellow flow into one another, as though metal had been passed through a prism. This horizontality – unexpected in the natural verticality of fireworks – startles the eye and shifts the logic of movement. It is no longer merely a colour, but a luminous alloy: a blushed gold, a scorched yellow, a red cooling into copper. Every line is a vibration, every glow a diffraction; colours split, recombine, answer one another. The horizontal elongation gives the image a wide breath, where light behaves like molten metal, oscillating between heat and radiance, between combustion and stillness. It is a landscape of pure light, where the prism reveals the secret kinship between gold, fire, and time... Napoli Explosion
Napoli Explosion
The window of my bedroom overlooked Mount Vesuvius, and every morning, with reverence, I whispered a good morning to it as one would address a slumbering person, afraid of awakening them. The volcano is a living presence for anyone living at its slopes. For over 12 years, on New Year's Eve, my team and I ascend Mount Faito, a mountain overlooking the Bay of Naples, to capture the extraordinary choreography of lights and colors produced by fireworks all around Vesuvius. Through this superstitious and propitiatory ritual, the people of Naples welcome the new year. The image of the black and silent silhouette of the volcano submerged by the cacophony of fireworks' colors seemed to me a representation that needed to be explored seriously and viewed from different perspectives.
Over the years, the project has evolved into an experimentation of new forms of writing with light, using a unique color palette provided by the hundreds of thousands of fireworks exploding simultaneously. Over time, Napoli Explosion has become a work in search of the feeling of light.
