"20 years with Pino" edited by Roberta de Fabritiis, more than a photographic exhibition on Pino Daniele (too immense to enclose him in an exhibition) is a tribute to a friend, with whom Alessandro d'Urso shared twenty years of his personal and professional life and for whom he created 8 covers and many videos.
So the exhibition tells not only Pino Daniele, but also the emotions and dreams of that young photographer who one fine day found himself professionally confronted with one of his legends, a sacred monster of music. A friendship was born from that meeting.
"Addòve" it's a "big catchphrase" that Daniele often repeated to his friends and that d'Urso wanted to jokingly add to the title. The images on display, most of which are unpublished, tell Pino Daniele from 1990 to 2008 in the public and private spheres. The professionally most intense period for the musician who collaborated in those years with important international artists of the caliber of Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Peter Erskine, Rachel Z, Jimmy Earl and with many Italian artists, realizing some memorable concerts and publishing the two most successful albums:
Don't trample on the flowers in the desert and tell me what happens on earth.
These are photos taken on film, which therefore have a different flavor, because they know how to tell the moment and the emotion behind the shot.
With film, imperfection becomes language because the grain, the light, the exposure… everything contributes to creating an image that is sometimes not perfect, but unique and therefore poetic.
For this reason, the exhibition opens with an enlargement of a "contact sheet", a contact sample, which also bears the marks of the photographer's pencil, on the selected image.
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