Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
Leonardo Achilli is a designer and illustrator from Córdoba, Argentina. During the #Dante2018 social media initiative, Achilli created an illustration for each canto in the Divine Comedy, posting one piece on his Instagram each day along with the collective reading. The images below are from Achilli’s Instagram account: wingderecho.
To view more of Achilli’s artwork, you can follow him on Instagram, and on Twitter.
See other posts related to #Dante2018 here.
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“This photograph from the late 1980s is from a series of twelve Polaroid photographs relating directly to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Each work is a carefully constructed scene illustrating a particular canto. Technically the artist has made the most of the cumbersome 20 x 40 inch Polaroid camera, using it to render exquisite detail and to capture subtle colour. She cuts and moulds aluminium soft-drink cans to form menacing vegetation, human figures, creatures from beyond the grave, on the journey through Hell and Purgatory to Paradise. Hall photographs them amongst found objects set against backgrounds which she has painted.” —Art Gallery of New South Wales website
View the whole collection of photographs at the Art Galley of New South Wales site.
The entrance to an old prohibition tunnel, in Artist and Craftsman Supply, 555 Pacific Ave, San Francisco.
Contributed by Kavi Montanaro
