This is a very special occasion, upon which Sotheby's iinvites you to focus attention. Because this exhibition (14 -30 January 2015) in Milan, in the Palazzo Broggi headquarters, is in fact a cultural project aimed at presenting Ciam's work, highlighting the essential aspects of a fascinating research conducted through photography by 1969 to 1996. But the focus dedicated to this important author also aims to be a moment of dialogue on Italian art, its quality and its beauty. It is therefore significant that the 48 works on display come from numerous private collections as well as from the artist's archive, creating a choral vision and also offering the starting point for an in-depth study that starts from the poetics of Giorgio Ciam.
Through a wide selection of works called for this presentation, the curatorial idea of the exhibition is precisely that of "entering" Ciam's work and traveling through it in its multiple facets. By photography Giorgio Ciam (1941-1996) he deeply analyzed his own existential dimension. And so, the exhibition intends to tell the story of an author who was part of international Body Art in the '70s and who in the '80s and '90s did not stop using the photographic medium, pursuing the search for his own identity with always new and highly anticipated results. The exhibition therefore presents photographic works that are "icons" of Ciam's work, and also offers important works - sometimes unpublished - where photography leaves room for drawing, collage and sculpture. So much so that the exhibition can be transformed into a real discovery, into a place full of novelties, in which to rediscover an all-round climate of experimentation, an experience between art and life.
The exhibition is enriched by a collection of original documents (artist's books, publications, manuscripts, invitations, documentary photographs) from the Giorgio Ciam Archive.
