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The Dante Project was the opportunity for four creative thinkers to challenge their skills and visually “translate” one of the most influential writers of all time, Dante Alighieri.

The collaborators, Peter Cannings, Giancarlo Leggio, Laurent Andrzejewski and Tomasz Wysota (London College of Communication tutor, alumni and students) interpreted the Divina Commedia - Inferno, Canto no. XXVI and produced their own 48 images/translations; one for each verse. The project demanded no restrictions; a free flow of ideas and thoughts directed only by Dante’s verses.

The 48x4 images are arranged to create an interactive, screen based, space where visitors can choose their own method of viewing the exhibition:

• Linear – one translation per time
• Mixed – across interpretations following the order of the versus 1 to 48
• Random

Through the interaction of various disciplines (fine art, photography, computer manipulation) Dante Project created a complex work of visions and life blueprints of individuals from four European regions (UK, Italy, France and Poland).

  
   
verse 1
 Rejoice, O Florence, since thou art so great,
That over sea and land thou beatest thy wings,
And throughout Hell thy name is spread abroad!
  
 
© Giancarlo Leggio
  
   
   
verse 2
 Among the thieves five citizens of thine
Like these I found, whence shame comes unto me,
And thou thereby to no great honour risest.
 
 
© Tomasz Wysota
  
   
   
verse 4
 And if it now were, it were not too soon;
Would that it were, seeing it needs must be,
For 'twill aggrieve me more the more I age.
 
 
© Giancarlo Leggio
  
   
   
verse 5
 We went our way, and up along the stairs
The bourns had made us to descend before,
Remounted my Conductor and drew me.
 
 
© Laurent Andrzejewski
  
   
   
verse 13
 For with his eye he could not follow it
So as to see aught else than flame alone,
Even as a little cloud ascending upward,
 
 
© Laurent Andrzejewski
  
   
   
verse 17
 "My Master," I replied, "by hearing thee
I am more sure; but I surmised already50
It might be so, and already wished to ask thee
 
 
© Laurent Andrzejewski
  
   
   
verse 18
 Who is within that fire, which comes so cleft
At top, it seems uprising from the pyre
Where was Eteocles with his brother placed."
 
 
© Tomasz Wysota
  

 

    
   
verse 19
 He answered me: "Within there are tormented
Ulysses and Diomed, and thus together
They unto vengeance run as unto wrath.
 
 
© Giancarlo Leggio
  
   
   
verse 20
 And there within their flame do they lament
The ambush of the horse, which made the door
Whence issued forth the Romans' gentle seed;
  
 
© Tomasz Wysota
  
   
   
verse 21 Therein is wept the craft, for which being dead
Deidamia still deplores Achilles,
And pain for the Palladium there is borne."
 
 
© Tomasz Wysota
  
   
   
verse 22 "If they within those sparks possess the power
To speak," I said, "thee, Master, much I pray,
And re-pray, that the prayer be worth a thousand,
 
 
© Laurent Andrzejewski
  
   
   
verse 23
 "If they within those sparks possess the power
To speak," I said, "thee, Master, much I pray,
And re-pray, that the prayer be worth a thousand,
  
 
© Tomasz Wysota
  
   
   
verse 24
 That thou make no denial of awaiting
Until the horned flame shall hither come;
Thou seest that with desire I lean towards it."
 
 
© Giancarlo Leggio
  
   
   
verse 34
 But I put forth on the high open sea
With one sole ship, and that small company
By which I never had deserted been.
 
 
© Laurent Andrzejewski