The Ekpýrosis Series

The Ekpýrosis, in Greek philosophy, is the universal conflagration, also called "great fire", which according to Stoic physics periodically determines the end of everything in a cosmic fire, from which everything is reborn in a palingenesis. Each period of time is born out of fire and culminates in destruction through fire; in many philosophies of antiquity we find the idea that the universe is born and ends in fire, or is destroyed to be reborn from its own ruins. This idea, in ancient times, was the basis of the myth of the Phoenix, often also referred with the epithets "Phoenix Arab" and "fire bird", a mythological bird considered able to control fire and to be reborn from its own ashes after death. The Ekpýrosis Series prints are a research on the concept of photographic abstraction that originates from the de-contextualization of an ordinary object, or part of it, to the point of dissolving any reference to visible reality. It is in this way that the formal element, reduced to fragments, is regenerated towards expressive solutions full of shapes, colors and emotions. The images are also a tribute to the work of photographer Aaron Siskind, especially to his abstract production from the late 1940s and early 1950s, also appreciated by Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and other exponents of abstract expressionism.