Rome has always been considered the heart of civilization. And it's over 300 fotografie of three of the most to show its greatness in three different exhibitions, one at the National Gallery, one at the Museum of XXI Century Arts and another at Palazzo Braschi.
Distant. Caius Mario Garrubba. Photos is the title of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art which, with its 100 largely unpublished shots from April 16, 2019 to June 2, 2019 it will keep Romans and tourists company. The review is curated by Gabriele D'Autilia and Enrico Menduni, organized and promoted by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and aims to (re)discover the gaze, travels and human itineraries of an author still too little known in Italy, esteemed worldwide international as an authentic master.
From Berlin to China, via Moscow, New York, Bangkok and Naples, the exhibition returns an artist of photographic reportage. Cosmopolitan by choice, an independent photojournalist among the first to cross the Iron Curtain and tell it to the Western world, the exhibition aims to highlight that tenacious and responsible will to document that characterized the production of a reporter who was little interested in events with and capital letters and still less poverty or wars, the privileged subject of reporters of yesterday and today.
The one at Palazzo Braschi in Rome it is an exhibition that has over 100 works that enrich the collections of the Photographic Archive of the Museum of Rome, giving a contemporary look at the city that fits into the narrative of historic Rome already contained in its permanent collection. The review is open from 17 April to 16 June 2019.
The exhibition has great value for the city and the Superintendence: for fifteen consecutive years the Rome Commission has entrusted the portrait of the capital to some of the greatest photographers on the international scene, who have 'narrated' it in total interpretative autonomy, in based on one's aesthetics and one's own experience. The result was a sincere dialogue, not without tough comparisons: Rome is often not recognized immediately, while the balance between its visual strength and the creative identity of the authors remains unchanged. A comparison that comes from afar, a legacy of the Grand Tour, where contemporary artists travel the city with their languages, trying to restore never-before-seen figures, unite their interiority with the most "imagined" city in history, bring their worlds, as can be read on the official page of the Palace.
Among the artists on display: Josef Koudelka, Olivo Barbieri, Anders Petersen, Martin Parr, Graciela Iturbide, Gabriele Basilico, Guy Tillim, Tod Papageorge, Alec Soth, Paolo Ventura, Tim Davis, Marco Delogu, Paolo Pellegrin, Hans-Christian Schink, Roger Ballen, Jon Rafman, Simon Roberts, Léonie Hampton.
Al Maxxi of Rome, is the exhibition curated by Giovanna Calvenzi from 17 April 2019 to 30 June 2019 to tell the capital through the shots of Paolo Di Paolo, which present a delicate, rigorous and wise story of an Italy that was reborn from the ashes of the Second World War. The photographer was an extraordinary singer of Italy between the Fifties and Sixties, who published in the weekly Il Mondo, by the famous journalist Mario Pannunzio, more than 500 photographs, portraying protagonists of the world of art, culture, fashion, of the cinema, next to ordinary people.
Among his photos, rediscovered after more than fifty years of oblivion, are those of Pier Paolo Pasolini at Monte dei Cocci in Rome, Tennessee Williams on the beach with her dog, Anna Magnani with her son on the Circeo beach, Kim Novak ironing in room at the Grand Hotel, Sofia Loren joking with Marcello Mastroianni in the Cinecittà studios. And then a family for the first time in front of the sea in Rimini and the heartbroken faces of the people at the funeral of Palmiro Togliatti.
Rome is also the one of the exhibition al WEGIL of Largo Ascianghi, 5 by Title Poets in Rome. Made superb by friendship describing Pier Paolo Pasolini, Attilio Bertolucci, Giorgio Caproni, Sandro Penna, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio Bassani, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Anna Maria Ortese, Elsa Morante, Amelia Rosselli, Natalia Ginsburg, Alfonso Gatto, Dacia Maraini, Enzo Siciliano, Dario Bellezza, Renzo Paris, just to name a few.
The exhibition, promoted by the Lazio Region, organized by AGCI Lazio in collaboration with LAZIOcrea and open to the public from 30 March to 23 June 2019, brings together over 250 original photographs that portray these writers and poets on the streets of the capital, during patrols, of presentations, dinners, house parties, up to the memory of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Idroscalo di Ostia, with shots by Antonio Sansone, Tazio Secchiaroli, Rodrigo Pais, Dario Bellini, Guglielmo Coluzzi, Francesco Maria Crispolti, Jerry Bauer , Ezio Vitale, Alberto Durazzi etc. In addition, first editions, inserts, magazines and rare recordings will be exhibited, as stated in the official note from the museum.
The exhibition, curated by Giuseppe Garrera and Igor Patruno, is the story of an entire season, of an enchanted moment in the city of Rome, between the 60s and 70s, when poets and writers, happy and eager to create, formed a sort of community of friendship.
