Cavalier d'Arpino Fresco, Head 3
Photograph, made with a view camera and selective focus, of one of the ten horse heads in the Cavalier d'Arpino fresco Battle of the Romans and the Veientes at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. 100 x 100 cm, the real size of the head. Edition of 9 plus 2 artist's proofs.
Marco Delogu, photographer, was born in Rome in 1960. His work focuses on portraits of groups of people united by shared experiences or languages; more recently, he has turned his attention to the paintings of Antonello da Messina, working on a contemporary reinterpretation of portraiture. He has published over twenty monographic books for Giulio Einaudi, e/o, Koenig Books, Bruno Mondadori and Punctum. He has exhibited in Italy and abroad, with solo exhibitions, in numerous galleries and museums, including: the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici); Fondazione Cini in Venice; the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; the Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds; the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne; the PhotoMuseum, Moscow. His photographs are held in major public and private collections worldwide, such as the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the MACRO museum in Rome. He directed the FotoGrafia international festival in Rome and the “Commissione Roma” from 2002 to 2018. From 2015 to 2019, he was director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Since June 2022, he has been President of the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in Rome.