Paying Tribute To A Famous Religious Symbol: LOAVES&FISHES Mosaic Chair

A miracle has a logic of its own. Elusive and mysterious, it is challenging to pin down in words, let alone to capture in one particular or far more images. But to express it as an object, in the physicality of day-to-day life is, perhaps, a near-impossibility. That is what Alessandro Zambelli attempts. He focuses on one of the greatest-identified miracles of Christian tradition the only a single recounted in all 4 gospels. The outcome is the chair LOAVES&FISHES (St. Philip).
This mosaic of rectangular panels embodies the symbols of the miraculous occasion and, at the same time, reveals its essence. The blue of the sea and the gold of the corn stand for the multiplied loaves and fishes and also recur with St. Philip. The number 5, so considerable in the gospel accounts, is traditionally this saint’s ranking amongst the apostles. Nevertheless, the chair itself seems almost ‘lifted’ from the cupola of the Pantheon in Rome. In reality that might be 1 way of hunting at LOAVES&FISHES: as an each day ‘Pantheon’ on a smaller sized, a lot more domesticated scale, like a reassuring piece of votive architecture in the house. [Photographs and data provided by means of e-mail by Alessandro Zambelli]
 




 

Alessandro Zambelli

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