From 19 July to 31 August 2014, the SituAzioni 2 exhibition will be held at Palazzo Tovegni in Murazzano (CN), which will present the works of seven photographers, represented by as many galleries, among the most interesting and active on the Italian scene. The exhibition is the first appointment of Fotograficamente 14 - La Fotografia meets, the review which, from July to September 2014, will propose a series of initiatives related to the world of the image concentrated in the Alta Langa area, organized by the FBottari Lattes Foundation of Monforte d'Alba (CN) which is confirmed as a point of reference for the promotion of photographic culture.
“In times of severe economic crisis – says the curator Daniela Trunfio -, which risk seriously jeopardizing not only cultural programming, but also the survival of prestigious museum structures, I believe it is important to also think of new exhibition models which include, with more strength the different protagonists of artistic planning. Working in a participatory way with gallery owners and artists does not mean putting the "public" place / museum in the hands of commodification and 'private' collecting, but instead knowing how to make the most of diversified professionalism and planning to create more original and current exhibition proposals , which can dialogue more effectively with the external cultural fabric".
The exhibition itinerary begins with a mirror reflection on space. The urban one, exaggerated in its degrading modernity and imbued with painful humanity, of the two great works by Marco Maria Zanin (Spazio Nuovo Contemporary Art, Rome) is compared with that on the void and the impeccable white geometries of the pre-inhabited interiors by Luca Gilli ( Weber & Weber, Turin), recent winner of the BNL-BNP Paribas award, at the 2014 edition of MIA Fair, the first and only fair entirely dedicated to photography.
The two central rooms will present the "Heroes" by Francesco Pergolesi (Galleria Spaziofarini6, Miano), a survey of the resistance of the artisans, which rewards a social microcosm put on display thanks to the restyling work of the interiors of the workshops and the skilful use of light theater of the young Umbrian photographer.
We continue with the research on the landscape, one of Mario Daniele's favorite subjects (Paola Sosio Contemporary Art, Milan), and represented here by the series "Quel Sentiero per il Lago": it is a slow photograph, made up of expectations and returns to places, to fix that clear and dazzling light that pays homage to the vastness of the Piedmontese alpine lakes, and to an apparently uncontaminated nature.
The third section becomes the "place of the theatre". The attentive and respectful gaze of Luciano Romano (MeMus, Museum and Historical Archive of the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples) restores the complicity between photographer and artist-set designer, a fundamental element for marking the distinction between documentary photography and theater photography. The "Opera ad Arte" cycle is the result of a rare and intelligent operation that links a prestigious client (that of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples) to artists and photographers, to generate not only archival memories, but also an extraordinary enhancement of the planning art and production.
Alongside the images of Luciano Romano, there will be a series by Eva Frapiccini (Alberto Peola, Turin) freely inspired by the unfinished drama by Bertolt Brecht "The Fall of the Egoist Johann Fatzer", written between 1926 and 1930. The text tells of lives in disarray, imperialism, opportunism, ruin and the corruption of human expectations. Eva Frapiccini, one of the most rigorous and determined contemporary photographers, places the traveler Fatzer in modern-day Berlin where the still evident fracture between East and West, between decadence and modernity becomes a metaphor for the journey of our life in constant oscillation between past and future between certainties and precariousness.
The itinerary ends with the video “Homogenic” by Giuseppe Mastrommatteo (Fabbrica Eos, Milan) which lines up eight gazes that arrange themselves rhythmically while keeping the frontality of the pose fixed.
The sensation is that of witnessing the movement, and together with the transformation, of a single subject, reproduced each time with new and surprising variables. The shape of the face changes, the eyes are the same. Mastromatteo exhibits a very personal interpretation of the renewed concepts of identity, homologation and seriality, at the time of media massification and creates the conditions for a perceptive awareness.
PHOTOGRAPHICALLY 14 will continue in Monforte d'Alba in the month of September.
Conversations with important photographers will be held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September 2014 at the Conterno-Fantino cellars in Monforte d'Alba (via Ginestra 1), to bring the public closer to this form of art in a pleasant convivial atmosphere, accompanied by tastings food and wine.
The protagonists of the two meetings will be Monika Bulaj and Luciano Romano.
Saturday 6 September at 17.00 – Monika Bulaj and Uliano Lucas
Monika Bulaj is one of the most interesting photographers, reporters and documentarians on the international contemporary scene. She was born in Warsaw in 1966, she studied Polish philology at the University of Warsaw; she has always concentrated her research on the boundaries of faiths (mysticism, archetypes, divination, possession, pilgrimages, the body, cult of the dead), minorities, nomadic peoples, migrants, untouchables, the underprivileged, in Asia, Europe and Africa.
Sunday 7 September at 17.00 – Luciano Romano and Daniela Trunfio “Photography is staged”
Luciano Romano, since his inception, has investigated the relationship between photography and theatre. He has been collaborating for years with the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and with La Scala in Milan at whose Academy he teaches Photography. His works, focused on the representation of space, are present in numerous public and private collections, such as the photography collection of the MAXXI in Rome, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York. The conversation between Luciano Romano and Daniela Trunfio will focus on the intertwining of photography, art, direction and scenic space.
Sunday 14 September 2014, at the Bottari Lattes Foundation in Monforte d'Alba (via Marconi 16) the Foundation portfolio reading is scheduled. It will be a moment of study and discussion between new authors, selected by a commission, and experts in the world of images, such as critics, gallery owners, curators and photo editors.
Readers/Guests: Maria Teresa Cerretelli, Gigliola Foschi, Roberto Mutti and Riccardo Costantini.
For this edition, the portfolios will have to focus on some themes born from the photographic suggestions of Mario Lattes' novel Love is nothing, such as real landscape, virtual landscape, mental landscape; the futility of the gaze; contemporary photography and the relationship between commitment and aesthetics; the noir and the surreal in photography.
To participate in the free preselection, it is necessary to send the portfolio and the registration form to photo@fondazionebottarilattes.it no later than Sunday 31 August 2014. The registration forms can be downloaded from the website www.fondazionebottarilattes.it.
SituAzioni 2, now in its second edition, is curated by Daniela Trunfio, who has conceived the spaces intended for galleries as real 'artist's rooms'. The subjects involved are: Spazio Nuovo Contemporary Art, Rome (Marco Maria Zanin), Weber & Weber, Turin (Luca Gilli), Galleria Spaziofarini 6, Milan (Francesco Pergolesi), Paola Sosio Contemporary Art, Milan (Mario Daniele), Alberto Peola , Turin (Eva Frapiccini), Fabbrica Eos, Milan (Giuseppe Mastromatteo) and MeMus, Museum and Historical Archive of the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples (Luciano Romano).
