Against the background of the Giudecca Island, the House of the Three Oci, a splendid example of Venetian architecture from the early 900s created by the artist Mario De Maria, restored last year and owned by Polymnia Venezia, an instrumental company of the Foundation of Venice, hosts the Maestro's largest anthology Gianni Berengo Gardin. The care of the exhibition is entrusted to Denis Curti, artistic director of the Casa dei Tre Oci, and he sees well 130 black and white images which retrace his work as a great reporter.
For this exhibition Berengo Gardin he wanted to review all of his production, the exhibitions, the books and all the experiences of the past, to choose the images that best told his story. An exhibition designed specifically for this Venetian place, which he met as a young man and which welcomes him back many years later with today's modern and contemporary gaze.
Photographs that take us back to Venice and Milan, to asylums and the Basaglia law, the Venice Art Biennale and the gypsies, the fundamental report entitled Inside the houses and New York, Vienna, Great Britain and the experience with the TCI which pushes him further, fixing the shot in sensational works, some of which have remained unpublished and presented here in Venice for the first time.
His passion for the people he met on the streets expresses his great interest in social investigation, a rediscovering of himself, his history and memories and only works that become archetypes of the Italian imagination, real, concrete images that evoke simple lives that through fields and squares, tell the story of life.
This exhibition is produced by Civita Tre Venezie with the support of Veneto Banca and the Veneto Region opened last February 1, will remain open until May 12, 2013.
The link between Veneto Banca, Venice and art – be it painting, architecture or photography – has highly successful precedents: among all we recall the collaboration with Chorus for the restoration of Venetian churches or again, in the renovated Magazzini del Sale by Renzo Piano, the exhibition space dedicated to the works of Emilio Vedova curated by Germano Celant. Initiatives of great appeal, capable of combining, with perfect balance, international scope and proximity to the territory. A combination that the bank shares and promotes with great commitment.
Gianni Berengo Gardin, was born in Santa Margherita Ligure, 10 October 1930. In 1954 he began to deal with photography, first as a photojournalist - in 1965 when he worked for Mario Pannunzio's Il Mondo and then years with the major national and international newspapers such as Domus, Epoca, Le Figaro , L'Espresso, Time, Stern. His characteristic way of photographing, his attentive eye to the world and to the different realities, from architecture to the landscape, to everyday life, have decreed his international success and make him a photographer in great demand also in the image communication market. Berengo Gardin has exhibited his photos in hundreds of exhibitions in different parts of the world such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the National Library in Paris, the International Meetings in Arles, the Mois de la Photo of Paris, the FNAC galleries.
