Bernard Plossu. Dopo l’estate

The images on display in the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences were taken by Bernard Plossu between the 1980s and the 2010s on the small islands surrounding Italy. Thirty years of journeys of extraordinary simplicity and equally extraordinary intensity, capable of transforming the ordinary into surprising apparitions, of capturing in the flow of life that movement, that detail, that sign destined to transform banality into the emblem of a time metaphysically suspended in infinity. Plossu traveled by ferry and on foot, always at the end of summer, between Stromboli and Levanzo, La Maddalena and the Tremiti Islands, Alicudi and Salina, Giglio and Elba, on a journey in search of himself and the relationship between man and nature, in perfect harmony between seeing and feeling, until he achieved the mysterious balance between essentiality of means and depth of results that characterizes his poetics.   Credit. Bernard Plossu, Ile de Levanzo, 1988 ©