Having to pay Tribute To A Famous Religious Symbol: LOAVES&FISHES Mosaic Chair

A miracle has a logic of its own. Elusive and mysterious, it is difficult to pin down in words, let alone to capture in 1 particular or far more photos. But to express it as an object, in the physicality of day-to-day daily life is, maybe, a close to-impossibility. That is what Alessandro Zambelli attempts. He focuses on a single of the greatest-identified miracles of Christian tradition the only a single recounted in all four gospels. The outcome is the chair LOAVES&FISHES (St. Philip).This mosaic of rectangular panels embodies the symbols of the miraculous occasion and, at the identical time, reveals its essence. The blue of the sea and the gold of the corn stand for the multiplied loaves and fishes and also recur with St. Philip. The quantity 5, so significant in the gospel accounts, is historically this saint’s ranking amongst the apostles. Nonetheless, the chair itself looks nearly ‘lifted’ from the cupola of the Pantheon in Rome. In actuality that might be 1 way of hunting at LOAVES&FISHES: as an each and every day ‘Pantheon’ on a smaller sized, a whole lot a lot more domesticated scale, like a reassuring piece of votive architecture in the property. [Pictures and information provided by implies of e-mail by Alessandro Zambelli] 



 

Alessandro Zambelli

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