I SALMI DI SANTIAGO. PATER NOSTER
From May 24 to June 15, 2025
Castello dal Verme – Zavattarello
Free entrance
THE SANTIAGO PSALMS – A journey into the soul
A medley of fifteen photographs spanning four years (2016-2019), carefully chosen among the over three thousand shots along two routes: The French Way (12 pictures)1 and The Portuguese Way (3 pictures)2 with a caption each, from David’s Psalms. Unpretentious images of sheer simplicity: not a recall aid of the physical journey but instead a spiritual research path, a journey into the soul. Hence, the collection is not meant to be a travelogue – the places are nearly all unknown, neither churches nor cathedrals are to be found, no glimpses of religious ceremonies or festivals and no “postcard effect”: only a plain black and white, witnessing a personal faith path through the contemplation of beauty in the works of the Lord to remind ourselves what mankind is in its relationship with the Creation; the human figure, actually, appears only once (a little girl playing with a dog) as, to put it in Giovanni Comisso’s words: “The first sign of God’s hands is in the landscape and I can accept that some human beings with marked sensibility, lost in the middle of the most mesmerizing natural scenery, claim they have seen divine signs. The other sign is the human being, but the human being shapes itself and grows through its relationship with nature: it is a mirror of the surrounding landscape.”
1 Twelve like the Tribes of Israel, the chosen number, the number that signifies the Lord’s choice. In a wider sense, it is the number designating the people of God as a whole, in the Old and New Testament.
2 Three like the threefold praise ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’ that rises to God; like the parts of the Universe: heaven, earth, underworld; three like Jesus’ three temptations by the devil in the desert symbolizing the main risks for man: power, wealth, fame; three like the three prayers that marked the passing of the day, the so-called Liturgy of the Hours.
info & contacts:
Fondazione Luciana Matalon
+39 02 878781
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www.fondazionematalon.org
