The appointment is set for 18pm at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. 10 photographer projects they will be rewarded for the extraordinary Open Call exhibition on the landscape "Italy is a desire". The event concludes a review of the contemporaneity of the Italian territory observed and taken from the lenses of dozens of artists who participated in the selection.
The country is an evocative and complex carousel of scenarios, monuments and places that captures the interest of artists of all disciplines. Perhaps photography is the one that immanently connects the observer's curiosity and reality more than anything else.
” If your photos aren't good, it means you weren't close enough" said the father of photojournalism Robert Capa: So, you have to get close, feel what you want to photograph and the Italian landscape and environment definitely have the right appeal.
The Open Call selected "photographers immersed in the contemporary and continually seeking an active, participatory, complex and eclectic reading of the constantly changing Italian landscape" explains the Ministry of Culture.
The organization of the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity with the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Alinari Foundation wanted to pay homage to transformations of all kinds and to the relationship between the territory and its image.
Photography viva in the cities and in the known or unknown places of the peninsula, it goes beyond painting and the shades of colors. Photographers and artists are fundamental actors for reading, understanding and describing places, to the point of profoundly influencing the very idea of landscape, says the invitation to the exhibition.
The value of the landscape
The result is 180 years of representation of national experience through the Alinari and Mufoco collections. A project that placed emphasis on the most contemporary forms of vision of the landscape and on the work of the young generations of photographers and visual artists.
Six hundred images with angles and also panoramas of Rome and Florence. The strength of the shots, as always, leads us to reflect and ask ourselves questions. How much passion and strength have we put into defending, developing, loving and making people love territories that have marked the thousand-year history of modern civilization? The connections between culture, experiences, disasters and environmental rifts are portrayed without tricks - as it should be - so as not to be misleading. A street with a famous name and a compromised monument, a poetic hill and rivers without banks, a city Caput mundi and degraded alleys.
Is Italy a desire? So let's also see it in the wild accelerations, in the "aggressive interventions, dictated by economic development and globalization, which make its landscape complex and urge us to take a position". Yes, a position to make it better and with a protected environment.
