Body Mandala FLLL16 by Fede Bianchi
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Medium: Archival pigment print on Metallic Paper
Dimensions: 101.6 x 101.6 cm
Edition production year: 2013
Edition of 10
Price: $4800.00 USD
Status: available
Light Skin / Dark Skin Two parallel series celebrating the diversity of the human body through the language of sacred geometry. Each work begins as a studio photograph, then is transformed using the Body Mandala technique: the figure is precisely mirrored and rotated into a symmetrical, mandala-like structure where anatomy becomes pattern and presence becomes architecture. Light Skin and Dark Skin explore variations of body type, shape, ethnicity, and skin tone—revealing how different forms carry light, texture, and contrast in distinct ways while remaining part of the same universal geometry. Together, the series honors individuality and shared harmony, turning the body into a timeless, meditative composition.
Why collect this work?
A single figure is reorganized into a radial structure, making bodily recognition compete with an insistent geometric order.
- Bianchi describes his Body Mandalas as joining bodily vulnerability with archetypal geometry. In this work, exposed limbs remain identifiable even as repetition subordinates the individual pose to a larger pattern.
- In the photograph, overlapping legs spiral from a shadowed centre against a black field. Alternating knees, calves and pointed feet establish a visual rotation, while tonal transparency complicates where one repeated figure ends and another begins.
- The catalogue documents a studio photograph mirrored and rotated into a composite, then produced as an archival pigment print on metallic paper. The supplied image demonstrates the sharp light-dark structure, but not the print’s surface or reflectivity.
- Encountered between figurative photography and geometric abstraction, the work tests how quickly a body can become a modular unit while its anatomical specificity persists.
About the Artist
Fede Bianchi
Fede Bianchi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: photography. Based in Miami, United States.
Nationality: Argentine
My practice navigates the space between symmetry and chaos, exploring how order, emotion, and meaning emerge through visual experience.
