
Pietraia
- Publisher
- NERO Editions
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-88-8056-317-4
- Specifications
- 24 x 34 cm
120 pages
English
Introduction by Antonio Grulli
The result of the encounter between sculptor Giulia Cenci and photographer Jacopo Benassi, whose practices merge into a new body of work where her hybrid forms and his visceral gaze generate a shared language of transformation. The artists met in Milan and gathered in Pietraia, a rural village where Cenci set up her studio in the former stables of her family's farm. She casts organic and mechanical bodies in metal, branches and pipes, bones and pistons, human and animal faces, and assembles them into visionary figures. Benassi photographed these creations indoors and outdoors, in the woods, working in darkness with flash and long exposures, fragmenting the shapes and turning heavy metal into trails of pure light.