Marco Delogu, Massimo Reale
The thirty assassins
Massimo Reale
[..How lovely is Siena fair when ten jockeys circle the Square going to the roped-off place ten assassins to start the race..." Thus goes an old Senese refrain. It would be hard to define these men in any other way. Twice a year they hurl themselves onto the volcanic pavement f the Campo di Siena in a horse race that isn't a sporting event but a war of symbols. The Palio is the Middle Ages live, not re-enactment..]
Alessandro Falassi
[..Marco Delogu is famous for his portraits of composers, prison inmates, cardinals in retirement. Each of his books is the iper-portrait of a different human paradigm. This time he has turned his lens upon the jockeys of the Palio of Siena, offering us a personal and original group portrait. These jockeys look at us directly, straight on, their faces shade off and dissolve into the background, which is black and white, like the coat of arms of Siena. The book is a kind of Spoon River Anthology of jockeys, who speak in a few sentences recorded or plucked out by Massimo Reale, a horseman himself..]
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.
www.marcodelogu.com
Massimo Reale was born in Florence in 1966. A gentleman rider, for Punctum he has edited “Photofinish vol. II” and “Paesaggi romani con Tram e Bus”, and written a story featured in “Capalbio” and the texts for “Uomini, Terra e Mare” and “I Trenta Assassini”.
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