The greatest face of Dante Alighieri of all time will be made in the context of "Dante Plus", an exhibition project dedicated to Supreme Poet. Dante Plus is a review, created by Marco Miccoli, which is renewed every year, dedicated to the figure of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy.
This year, in which the seven hundred years since the death of the father of the Italian language, the edition is particularly rich for the participation of as many as one hundred and fifty artists including Milo Manara, Moebius, Tanino Liberatore, Emiliano Ponzi and Riccardo Guasco and of course Alessandro Tricarico. Miccolo stated that on Thursday morning in Ravenna, work will begin to create the face of Dante Alighieri, the greatest of all time, which will measure 47 meters by 22. The work will be created by the Apulian artist Alessandro Tricarico who will be assisted by a team of 9 people. The portrait aims, due to its size, to enter the Guinness World Records. The more than six hundred sheets of which it will be composed will be assembled as in the composition of a mosaic.
The artist
Alessandro Tricarico, visual artist and photographer, in 2012 won a scholarship at the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan with a reportage on the refugee camp on the Libyan-Tunisian border. Since 2016 he has returned to live in the province of Foggia, becoming a profound connoisseur of those wonderful places. In recent years he has approached poster art.
These are the words he wrote on social media about the great portrait of the Supreme poet “It will be the biggest thing I've ever done and will only be visible on Friday. Anyone who wants to come and say hello will find me in Piazza San Francesco, a few steps from the tomb of the great poet, from dawn on the 8th to sunset on the 9th ". “You can also walk on it - explains Marco Miccoli - it will be Dante's face, the largest in the world”. “So everyone can literally take home a piece of Supreme Poet”.
Wow!!! 😮