THE BLACK SUN
The Black Sun retraces the salient moments of an artist and “Valent man” like Caravaggio.
His painting marks a profound change in the history of art, and the events of his tormented life, between light and shadow, make him a character rich in humanity and turmoil.
The title refers to the obsession with darkness that characterized the artist's life.
An expression used by the writer Andrea Camilleri in his novel dedicated to the painter, in which he imagines coming into possession of his autograph diary, written during the summer of 1607 between Malta and Sicily.
During this period, the artist attempted to join the Order of the Knights of Malta to secure the annulment of the death sentence handed down to him in Rome for murder. He later fled to Sicily, imprisoned by the Knights of Malta, where he sank into madness and obsession, which gave him no respite, like the black sun that casts shadows across his canvases.
The Black Sun is a work that aims to show the most significant moments in the life and painting of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
All of this is supported by accurate historical and critical documentation.
The aim is also educational, that is, it would like to tell the story of one of the most revolutionary moments in the history of painting, without excluding a part of "real life" that was for our "artist man" flesh and blood, nourishment of his being.
Notes on work and press review
We imagined Caravaggio in his studio, meditating on his works and social issues related to the political context of his time. He embraces the insights of the new experimental world of nascent Galilean science, reflecting on the lucid visions of Giordano Bruno, a fiery seeker of the 'truth' that manifests itself to the senses.
Caravaggio, alone, intuits and completes a pictorial revolution that will change the history of humanity. For Caravaggio, as Giordano Bruno had intuited shortly before, 'Matter' is sacred, an expression of the constant manifestation of life, it is generative and no less than a generating engine that dominates it. This is why Caravaggio considers a basket of fruit a generative light as much as a human being. For Caravaggio, primary categories do not exist; a man has the same value as a leaf or the very mineral matter he mixes as paint.
Giacomo Andrico
