Capalbio

Marco Delogu

Capalbio

Marco Delogu
[..This project was born out of a close bond with a region and its community – horsemen and shepherds – and a story of friendship with some of the people portrayed. I don’t go hunting and I don’t know how to shoot, but I have a great respect for boar hunts and the rituals surrounding them. During the winters in Maremma, I heard many hunting stories and rediscovered “Il Cinghiale del Diavolo” by Emilio Lussu, which is republished here. Capalbio is a special land for me, which condenses many of the threads that run through my life: nature, Sardinia, horses and racing, the sea and men with history written on their faces...]

“I’d never have believed that I could have missed a boar at such short range. When I shot, the boar was just six steps away.”
“What do you mean, six steps away? Didn’t you didn’t stay where I told you to?”
“Yes, I stayed there. But the boar didn’t come at me from the front, as I was expecting, but from the side. After Giuseppe Testa-Rasa’s shot, the boar didn’t continue straight ahead, towards the oleasters, but swerved right and returned into the forest. I’d heard it coming and was ready. I can’t believe it.”
He got up off the ground and re-enacted the scene.
“I was standing up straight, very sure of myself. I said to myself, ‘If I miss this boar, I’ll become a monk.’ The boar stopped running and paused on the hillside, listening. That’s when I shot. I aimed at the centre of its shoulder, as it was standing still. And I missed.”
From “Il cinghiale del diavolo” by Emilio Lussu

Marco Delogu was born in Rome, where he still lives and works, in 1960. His research focuses on portraits of groups of people who share common experiences and languages. In recent years the main focus of his works has been nature, and hence his attention has shifted, in various manners, from man to his surroundings.
He has published over twenty books, and has held exhibitions in Italy and abroad in many art galleries and museums.
In autumn 2008 he had the big retrospective exhibition entitled “Noir et Blanc” at Accademia di Francia Villa Medici in Rome. In 2011 he had retrospecitve show in Moscow at Multimedia Art Museum, and exhibited at the Venice Biennial (Arsenale) and at the Lyon biennial.