The Works

Twenty-eight images, one research

Opera Maior, the face that crosses time. Giorgio Lupattelli, acrylic on canvas.

THEOPHANIA is made up of twenty-eight works by Giorgio Lupattelli: four large paintings, twelve plates dedicated to the Laudes Dei Altissimi and twelve preparatory studies. A body of work in which Francis crosses memory, art, science and the contemporary, composing a weave of images, symbols and relationships.

Every work is a point of access to Giorgio Lupattelli’s research. The full itinerary, the preparatory studies and the content dedicated to the single works are gathered in the Works section.

Sixteen cores

Why they are not twenty-eight cards

Every plate and its preparatory study form a single narrative core: the study tells the genesis of the plate and is to be read within it. Together with the four large works in museum format, the corpus reads as an organism in sixteen manifestations.

In the exhibition rooms the sequence is another: the studies are displayed beside the large works, while the plates occupy the following rooms. The two readings coexist, and the visit follows the exhibition sequence.

Liber Laudis

A single work in twelve folia

The twelve plates compose a single work in twelve folia: each keeps its own identity and, in relation with the others, takes part in a unified visual field. What holds for the triptych holds for the Liber Laudis: unity does not cancel the single image, it sets it in relation.

Opera Maior is the point. The triptych and the Liber Laudis are the field.