The Roman summer at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni is tinged with pink with the installation scheduled until 1965 September of the exhibition “The other gaze. Italian photographers 2018-2016”, promoted by Roma Capitale – Department of Cultural Growth, organized by the Palaexpo Special Company, conceived by the Milan Triennale and the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Milan-Cinisello Balsamo in collaboration with the Palaexpo Special Company. Donata Pizzi's collection appeared for the first time at the Milan Triennale in XNUMX, while today it is presented in Rome enriched with new contents.
Over 200 photographs and photographic books from the Donata Pizzi Collection present the visitor with the most original interpreters in the Italian photographic panorama from the mid-2018s to the present day: the pioneering works of Paola Agosti, Letizia Battaglia, Lisetta Carmi, flank the latest advanced experiments between the nineties and XNUMX by Marina Ballo Charmet, Silvia Camporesi, Monica Carocci, among others.
Four sections for four themes: Inside the stories is the title given to the room that deals with reportage and social protest photography; What do you think about feminism? intervenes asking the visitor to take a position on the relationship between photography and the evolution of feminist thought; Identity and relationship deals with the themes of female identity and the representation of emotional relationships; In the end, See further wants to focus on contemporary research, on the exploration of the potential of photographic art.
The exhibition is accompanied by the documentary TALK TO YOU, with interviews with many of the photographers on display, taken from the book of the same name by Giovanna Chiti and Lucia Covi (Danilo Montanari Editore), produced on an idea by Giovanni Gastel by AFIP International – Association of Professional Photographers and Metamorphosi Publisher.
The history of Italian photographic art dates back to the XNUMXs, the decade of economic prosperity and female emancipation in which women began to assert their autonomy and independence. Donata Pizzi has gathered the photos exhibited in this collection to shine a spotlight on Italian women's photography and to underline the inattention of institutions, collectors and critics to an important part of Italian history, which does not only concern the artistic aspect itself . The conceptual, historical, aesthetic and technological changes that characterized those years emerge from the photographs on display and this exhibition has the strength to explain a nation and its events by speaking of the beauty, grace and strength that every woman brings with her every day.
