L’originalità dell’inautentico: qualche riflessione sulle dinamiche tra originale e copia nella fotografia archeologica di Elio Ciol.

This paper focuses on the topic of the “copy”, a phenomenon that – as we know – dates back to classical art, beginning with the Hellenistic workshops’ reproduction and copying practices to culminate in the flourishing production of copies in the Roman age. In particular, the paper concentrates on the relationship between the original and the documentary copy and the outcomes of their interaction with photography. An example of such an interaction is offered by the series of pictures taken by the Italian photographer Elio Ciol of the 1:1 scale copy of the fourth-century BC Tomb of Kazanlak’s pictorial decoration. Paradoxically, Ciol’s camera gives back to the wall paintings the aura they had lost being replicated and enhances their value through the positivity of a double “negation”.