19 November 2024
‘Constantine Leventis Auditorium’, 19:30

The A. G. Leventis Gallery in collaboration with the French Institute of Cyprus is organizing a lecture by the traveling photographer Ferrante Ferranti.

Ferrante has been engaged for thirty-five years with French writer Dominique Fernandez in an exploration of the baroque and the different layers of civilizations, from Syria to Bolivia via Sicily and Saint Petersburg. Together they published, among others ‘The Raft of the Gorgone’ (Grasset, 1988 – Éditions Philippe Rey, 2017); ‘The pearl and the crescent’ (Plon/Terre Humaine, 1995); ‘Sevilla, Palermo and Sicily’, ‘Prague and Bohemia’, ‘Syria’, ‘Bolivia’ (Stock, 1992 to 1999); ‘Trip to Italy’ (Plon, 1999); ‘Mother Mediterranean’ (Grasset, 2000); ‘Sicily, Naples’, ‘Siberias and Mediterraneans’ (Imprimerie Nationale, 2006 to 2015); ‘Villa Medici’, ‘Rome, Florence and Venice’ (Editions Philippe Rey, 2004 to 2018).

He is also the author of ‘Reading Photography’ (Éditions Bréal, 2002), ‘Spirit of the Ruins’ (Éditions du Chêne, 2005) and ‘Athos, the Sacred Mountain’ (Desclées de Brouwer, 2015); and co-author of ‘Living Stones’, ‘Libya’, ‘Ancestors Linked to the Stars’, ‘Invisible Masters’, ‘Imaginaries of Ruins’, ‘Catalan Baroque’, ‘Imprints of the Sacred’, 'Itinerrances’.

He teaches History of Photography at the Catholic University of Angers since 2015, and he directed photography workshops at SciencesPo Paris between 2014 and 2021 on Reading Photography.

RSVP by Monday 18 November 2024.

For reservations:
| +357 22 668838, (Monday-Friday, 09.00-13.00 & 14.00-16.30)
| rsvp@leventisgallery.org

The doors close at 19:40.
Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

*The lecture will be given in English.

Free entrance | Limited number of seats.