Mustafa Sabbagh - The Exile with the Red Flower

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to convey their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation. Artist Mustafa Sabbagh is one of the most important photographers specializing in portraiture. The work in question is part of the series "Tina Modotti – Like us."

In the photographic portraits created in this series, Mustafa Sabbagh conceives a highly interesting and original composition, where the iconic beauty of the female figure is reaffirmed by the presence of the floral motif. The image of beauty conveyed by the work also uses other media beyond the photographic portrait. Indeed, the written word complements the subject, rendered in Anna Ronchi's exquisite calligraphy, incorporating original poetic compositions by Lorenzo Chiuchiu. From a formal standpoint, these compositions demonstrate Mustafa Sabbagh's ability to create works of perfect balance, in the arrangement of elements, and in capturing emblematic and powerfully expressive images.

Mustafa Sabbagh was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1961 and lives and works in Italy. An Italian-Palestinian, he grew up between Europe and the Middle East, and has a cosmopolitan background and a nomadic attitude. A former assistant to Richard Avedon and a professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, after a brilliant career as a fashion photographer recognized by the world's most prestigious magazines, since 2012 he has focused his research on contemporary art through photography and video art, creating a sort of aesthetic counter-canon whose punctum is the skin, a diary of individual uniqueness.

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