Nature’s Shapes

The Photography of Marcello Fara 2020 – 2021

The Sardinian sea is the star of this visual and sentimental journey conducted by the artist in his native land

7 February – 7 March 2025

The Photographs The Exhibition Marcello Fara Hours and Tickets Hot to get there

Snapshots of a dream that materialises in liquid, evanescent atmospheres.

The photographer’s work begins when, returning to his homeland by ship, his lens starts to perceive the island, and it continues as he seizes the geometries of the seascape seeking to strike a balance with man’s intervention.
An exhibition curated by Carlo Sisi

The Photographs

Twenty-eight prints use the Fine Art Museum printing process adopted to provide the highest quality rendering of the Lights, Colours and Shapes of Nature captured by the lens. Responding to the photographer’s sensitivity, reality is transformed in a close bond between the objective datum and the soul/eye of the observer. The aim is to get into the very soul of the natural scene, a necessary move in order to afford dignity of style to the poetic image

The Exhibition

Fara focuses his lens on a point in the sea where a concrete wall, part of an imposing human construction, appears to be seeking a balance with the seascape that has been there for millions of years.

A dialogue built of geometrical lines encloses swathes of atmospheric colour, fragments of solemn, ancestral matter, shores that become evanescent as time and the seasons go by, and details of steep silhouettes that capture the structural essence of the geological, natural and anthropic mystery of his beloved land.

Marcello Fara

Marcello Fara is an architect and professor of technical drawing, art and image. Following his experience as assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, he concentrated his research on the relationship between drawing, photography and multimedia. Since then, in a professional context, he has developed a unique dialogue with artistic photography focusing on the landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the minor arts.

For the Fondazione Roberto Capucci he has produced an extensive photographic and video project focusing on a study of the relationship of shape and colour with nature, architecture and sculpture in the great fashion designer’s work. A part of this project was shown at the Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia and at the Philadelphia Art Museum to tie in with the exhibition devoted to Capucci’s sartorial creations. The project has been published by publishers Gli Ori in Pistoia and Sillabe in Livorno.

Fara’s exploration of light, colour, geometries and textures, visual perception and historical identity, has been published by numerous specialist periodicals and shown in Florence at the Faculty of Architecture, at the Fondazione Roberto Capucci in Villa Bardini, at the Museo della Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, at Palazzo Paoli Marmorai and at publisher Mandragora’s Agora/Z area in Palazzo Strozzi, as well as at publisher Sillabe’s exhibition venue in Livorno.

Fara is also the author of monographic works focusing on the relationship between architectural space and museum layouts, photography as an artistic process and professional equipment for recording architecture and works of art.

He has been cooperating for several years now with Ing. Vincenzo Silvestri, a designer of highly specialised photographic equipment, as a testimonial in the use of his more recent instruments.

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Hours

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Tuesday	10:00 - 19:30
Wednesday	10:00 - 19:30
Thursday	10:00 - 19:30
Friday	10:00 - 19:30
Saturday	10:00 - 19:30
Sunday	10:00 - 19:30
Monday	Closed

Last entry: one hour before closing
Closed every Monday

Tickets

Full price: € 10,00

Groups larger than 10 people, EU youth aged 18 to 24, members of the Italian Touring Club, FAI members, Unicoop members, holders of a full ticket for the Boboli-Bardini Gardens.

Children up to 17 years old, people with disabilities and their companions, journalists, tour guides, holders of the Firenze Card; school groups including two teachers with a reservation through the Firenze Musei call center at +39 055 2989816.

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Information and Reservations

Call center Firenze Musei
+39 055 2989816
info@villabardini.it

How to get there

Main Entrance:
Costa San Giorgio 2, Firenze

Secondary Entrance:
Via dei Bardi 1 rosso, Firenze

For those arriving by car, it is preferable to use the entrance at Costa San Giorgio 2, setting the navigator for Forte Belvedere, where free parking is available. From there, it’s just a short walk to the Villa, following the signs provided.

For people with disabilities, access is possible via a ramp at the vehicular entrance of Costa San Giorgio n°4. Please announce your arrival to the Ticket Office at +39 055 2638599.

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