Rivoluzione
Massimo Sordi
24x30 cm
48+20 pages
Soft cover
Edited by Stefania Rössl, Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Damiano Fraccaro/ Otium Studio
Text by Fabio Matano, Stefania Rössl, Samuele Vincenti
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-73-5
Witty #118
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Rivoluzione by Massimo Sordi approaches the Italian coastline as a field of interacting forces shaped by continuous transformation. The cliffs of Ortona become the site of an observation that registers the coexistence of erosion and persistence, disintegration and resistance, within a balance constantly exposed to its own redefinition. Landscape emerges not as a fixed or measurable form, but as a temporal materiality in perpetual transformation, in which every configuration retains traces of its constitutive instability.
Attentive to the geomorphological nature of the site, the photographic image renders perceptible a stratified temporality in which different scales of time overlap and interfere with one another. Rock surfaces, shaped by the action of the sea and atmospheric agents, emerge as material archives, sites of sedimentation where the territory retains the traces of the processes that traverse it. Erosion thus appears not merely as a physical phenomenon, but as a critical device that unsettles the very notion of stable, permanent, and completed form. Landscape reveals itself as a transitional condition, continually reconfigured through the interaction of processes of accumulation, subtraction, and collapse. Terrestrial movements and cosmic cycles introduce a further shift in scale, expanding the relationship between territory, time, and representation. Images drawn from the astronomical writings of Galileo Galilei and from Donato Rossetti’s Sistemi del Mondo d’Aristotile, Copernico e Ticone introduce an additional layer of interpretation, in which the very notion of
“revolution” acquires physical, geological, and cosmological meanings simultaneously.
This publication is part of the 'Whes the Sea Moves In series' and has been funded by European Union, NextGenerationEU, as part of the PNRR project “National Biodiversity Future Center” M4C2 I1.4 of the National Research Council
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