Les Recontres d’Arles 2024, under the surface
Les Recontres d’Arles 2024, under the surface by Ilaria Abbiento
Exhibitions
LORENZO CASTORE
Alla Spot Home Gallery di Napoli la mostra dal titolo “Turning Point” con fotografie di Michael Ackerman, Martin Bogren, Lorenzo Castore, Richard Park e Ander Petersen. Luca Sorbo ha intervistato Lorenzo Castore.
“The beginning of the future” – Giulia Ticozzi about Arcipelago-19 and the exhibition in Lucca
An “Archipelago” of photographers from all over Italy and the narration of the pandemic through images: different but connected works, an extraordinary documentation on display at Villa Bottini. We talk with the curator about the exhibition and the birth of a group with several projects for the future.
Richard Mosse – “Displaced”. On unreal documents
At MAST in Bologna an anthological exhibition by the Irish photographer, whose work tackles urgent social, geopolitical and environmental issues by subverting the narrative of conventional media through the use of technology, often of military derivation.
An interview with Aurelio Amendola: “Michelangelo, Warhol and the others…”
The portraits and friendship with great contemporary artists. Sculptures, architecture and the “chisel light”. A chat with a master photographer, about art, beauty and the great anthological exhibition with which his city, Pistoia, has paid tribute to him.
True Fictions – At the edge of reality
Staged photography, a genre that has revolutionized the language of photography since the 1980s, is at the heart of the exhibition now open again to the public in Reggio Emilia. Over one hundred works that, through staging, parallel realities, inventions inspired by cinema, show that pivotal moment that opened the doors of art to photography.
The imprint of reality – William Henry Fox Talbot. At the origins of photography
A broad retrospective dedicated to a pioneer of the photographic process, the exhibition in Modena compares Talbot’s work with that of other photographers, artists and scientists, tracing the experiences that led to the birth of a new form of representation of reality: photography, “the art of fixing a shadow”.
“Resilients 2020”. Everyday heroes of the pandemic in the ephemeral exhibition in Parma
“Behind the mask, beyond the virus”. An outdoor exhibition, in the streets of Parma, dedicated to those who fought the epidemic every day. A project between reportage, serial communication and artistic installation. A visual message that, in addition to offering hope, intends to make us feel part of the same battle
“Ren Hang, photography” – In praise of the nude. Beauty, poetry and provocation
The Fondazione Sozzani in MIlan hosts a retrospective dedicated to the Chinese photographer, who tragically passed away in 2017. Considered as a challenge to a repressive regime, his images are “a hymn to the body, to sexuality, to vulnerability”.
Marco Marucci – “Apollo” and the memory of a wandering and vanishing universe
Through photographic tangibility, Marucci offered the substance of a vanishing memory; the disappearance of the world of Italian circus: stories of nomadism, magic and backstage, unexpected visions and moods that are mutable and eternal to what happens on the stage, under the spotlight of the circus.
The Pioneers, Arles 2020 – Interview with Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
Through the gaze of authors capable of exploring the world in unpredictable ways, “Les Pionniers” invites us to reflect on current and urgent themes. Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, president of the MRO Foundation, told us something about the exhibition and the Foundation’s new projects.
Carmelo Bongiorno – “Tagli”
In the Sicilian photographer’s latest work, collected in a book and displayed in an exhibition, the images tell us about lacerations and contrasts. A deep reflection on the theme of pain, on the world and on photography itself.