VESPA | ALESSANDRO SORCI

Alessandro Sorci approaches the Vespa the way a sculptor studies a finished form. The scale shifts constantly. Tiny scooters orbit a giant wheel. A helmet becomes a monument. Details of chrome and bodywork fill the frame like abstract architecture. Sorci finds new geometries in an object that has barely changed in seventy years, and that is precisely the point. The Vespa has been a design icon since 1946. What Sorci understands is that timelessness is not about standing still. Shot against pale, minimal backgrounds, his images give one of the world's most recognisable silhouettes the visual language of contemporary photography. Ancient and absolutely current.