“Even reality, while necessary, is not completely predictable”.
Marcel Proust (The Captive)
Filippo Sassòli (Rome 1961) is an illustrator and designer. He collaborates with various publishing houses and works for both the daily press and periodicals. He is particularly known for his landscape drawings, portraiture and children’s book illustrations.
Roman archigraphies. At an unspecified time of the future or past, the remains of constructions dating back to Roman times stood beside the architecture of later centuries and have therefore been explored and portrayed as “remains”. In the eternal city these contemporary artifacts have by now been approved, embraced and digested. The acknowledgement of this complete environmental integration (which at this point includes interior landscapes) also entails that these buildings are subject to the action of time, including neglect and abandonment.
Manhole covers are diaphragms, thresholds, openings, doors that can enclose and imprison, hide but also preserve and defend.
Marine zoographies, unexpected encounters with fish, octopus, seashells and stones. In this voyage among urban ruins and debris, some of which are imaginary, and marine zoographies conceived as natural infiltrations into the environment that provocatively turn the dramatic issue of the devastation caused by man on its head, Sassòli considers nature’s capacity for resilience over and beyond the presence of man.