Agorà
permanent sound installation
OPENArchival Platform
photography
Enrico Gusella
Edito da Silvana Editoriale in collaborazione con Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo
Presentazione del libro di Enrico Gusella “Sulla fotografia e oltre” in cui racconta i grandi interpreti della fotografia e le loro storie. Una narrazione di ampio respiro in una nuova edizione aggiornata
Una storia, o meglio una serie di storie sulla fotografia, sugli interpreti e i protagonisti dall’Ottocento ai giorni nostri. È questo, e molto altro ancora, la nuova edizione del libro Sulla fotografia e oltre di Enrico Gusella, pubblicato da Silvana Editoriale con la Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo, in una nuova edizione aggiornata (532 pagine, 135 immagini a colori e in bianco e nero) che sarà presentato in Sala Ketty La Rocca presso MAD Murate Art District mercoledì 10 luglio alle ore 17,30.
Critico delle arti, attento studioso della fotografia, in questo libro Enrico Gusella ci accompagna in un viaggio oltre l’immagine fotogr
Enrico Gusella
Edito da Silvana Editoriale in collaborazione con Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo
Presentazione del libro di Enrico Gusella “Sulla fotografia e oltre” in cui racconta i grandi interpreti della fotografia e le loro storie. Una narrazione di ampio respiro in una nuova edizione aggiornata
Una storia, o meglio una serie di storie sulla fotografia, sugli interpreti e i protagonisti dall’Ottocento ai giorni nostri. È questo, e molto altro ancora, la nuova edizione del libro Sulla fotografia e oltre di Enrico Gusella, pubblicato da Silvana Editoriale con la Fondazione Alberto Peruzzo, in una nuova edizione aggiornata (532 pagine, 135 immagini a colori e in bianco e nero) che sarà presentato in Sala Ketty La Rocca presso MAD Murate Art District mercoledì 10 luglio alle ore 17,30.
Critico delle arti, attento studioso della fotografia, in questo libro Enrico Gusella ci accompagna in un viaggio oltre l’immagine fotografica: un percorso narrativo lungo il quale sono indagati fatti artistici e fotografici, i rapporti fra testo e immagine, fra cultura e società. Un excursus che investe autori e contesti della fotografia, ma anche i diversi generi che costituiscono l’arcipelago fotografico: dal paesaggio all’architettura, dai corpi e i ritratti all’astrazione passando per le collezioni, la letteratura e la sociologia. Nasce così una geografia della narrazione fotografica tesa ad approfondire le diverse visioni dei protagonisti della nuova scena artistica contemporanea, ma anche di una fotografia storica e storicizzata.
Il volume si apre con un’intervista del 1995 a Mimmo Jodice – di cui è in corso una grande mostra a Firenze a Villa Bardini – dedicata, allora, alla sua mostra Tempo interiore, e alla sua città natale, Napoli. E sono proprio le città e i paesaggi a caratterizzare questo appassionato libro con la nutrita sezione dal titolo Paesaggi. Oltre duecento pagine che scandagliano i territori del nostro Paese e del mondo: dalle metropoli e le periferie di Gabriele Basilico (Milano: Ritratti di fabbriche, Beirut) alle geometrie astratte e cromatiche di Franco Fontana, il lirismo spirituale di Giovanni Chiaramonte, la “fotografia del no” in Mario Cresci. Nadar, Werner Bischof, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Berenice Abbott, Inge Morath, Luigi Ghirri, Thomas Struth, Josphef Beuys nelle fotografie di Buby Durini, Sebastião Salgado, Vittorio Storaro, Elio Ciol, Fulvio Roiter, Elliot Erwitt, Walter Niedermayr, Italo Zannier, Ugo Mulas, Luca Campigotto, George Tatge, Raffaello Bassotto, Olivo Barbieri, Maurizio Galimberti, Luca Chistè, proseguono l’intensa sequenza.
A caratterizzare questa nuova edizione di Silvana Editoriale, sono due nuovi capitoli dal titolo “fotografia e letteratura” e “fotografia e società” – quale documento e analisi delle dinamiche della nostra società come l’affaire Capa sul miliziano colpito a morte, Ronaldo Schemidt in Venezuela o le città all’epoca del coronavirus. In questa ampia sezione si indaga la fotografia quale funzione di una narratività che trova nella letteratura alcuni dei più suggestivi esempi quali Roma-Pompei di Gianni Berengo Gardin e Aurelio Amendola, Steve McCurry e le polaroid stories di Wim Wenders.
Accademia Italiana’s photographic exhibition
It’s a project by MAD Murate Art District, curated by Valentina Gensini, designed with the aim of bringing real contemporary artistic practice into schools in Florence.
The 2024 edition of the project involved 9 artists in a workshop with the students of 8 secondary schools in the city of Florence.
The second-year students of the Photography Bachelor’s Program at Accademia Italiana, under the guidance of the teacher Letizia Francini Naldi, followed the project and made a story by images. In particular, Giovanni Bandieri photographed the school buildings inserted in the context of the different districts of the city of Florence, testifying to the capillary nature of the project; Fahed Hussin, Bettina Lindblad, Nicoletta Matera-Szczesniek, Marta Meinardi, and Matteo Russo documented the workshop activities, exchanges, relationships, and emotions; Arav Watta
Accademia Italiana’s photographic exhibition
It’s a project by MAD Murate Art District, curated by Valentina Gensini, designed with the aim of bringing real contemporary artistic practice into schools in Florence.
The 2024 edition of the project involved 9 artists in a workshop with the students of 8 secondary schools in the city of Florence.
The second-year students of the Photography Bachelor’s Program at Accademia Italiana, under the guidance of the teacher Letizia Francini Naldi, followed the project and made a story by images. In particular, Giovanni Bandieri photographed the school buildings inserted in the context of the different districts of the city of Florence, testifying to the capillary nature of the project; Fahed Hussin, Bettina Lindblad, Nicoletta Matera-Szczesniek, Marta Meinardi, and Matteo Russo documented the workshop activities, exchanges, relationships, and emotions; Arav Wattal, on the other hand, devised a sort of participatory workshop with the students, inviting them to collaborate in creating their own portraits. Zuzanna Rokwisz, Gerardo Sanchez Serrano and Ward Qassem instead focused on the artists involved, creating respectively a series of portraits within the schools and interviews that reveal their poetic and educational approach. The documentation work covered the different phases and the different figures involved in the project Regenerating Territories: Artist Residencies at School project, mapping out its different specificities.
Presentazione catalogo del progetto
29 febbraio 2024 ore 17:30
Il progetto fotografico dedicato alle r/esidenze delle attività operaie manifatturiere è stato ideato da La C.I.A. Cooperativa di Comunità. Tre luoghi, tre realtà, tre visioni, un’unica importanza: la resistenza del lavoro sull’Appennino. Un lavoro corale che spiega, attraverso immagini, dall’impressione all’espressione, il visibile e l’invisibile delle attività manifatturiere ed operaie locali raccolto in un unico catalogo fotografico.
«Che cosa è la fotografia se non verità momentanea, verità di un momento che contraddice altre verità di altri momenti?», è la domanda di Leonardo Sciascia riportata alla mente da Federica Montevecchi nel catalogo di “AAA Manifatture”, una nuovo progetto dedicato alle “r/esistenze del lavoro”, nello specifico quelle delle attività operaie manifatturiere, nei paesi di Firenzuola, Marradi e Palazzuolo sul Senio.
L’iniziativa v
Presentazione catalogo del progetto
29 febbraio 2024 ore 17:30
Il progetto fotografico dedicato alle r/esidenze delle attività operaie manifatturiere è stato ideato da La C.I.A. Cooperativa di Comunità. Tre luoghi, tre realtà, tre visioni, un’unica importanza: la resistenza del lavoro sull’Appennino. Un lavoro corale che spiega, attraverso immagini, dall’impressione all’espressione, il visibile e l’invisibile delle attività manifatturiere ed operaie locali raccolto in un unico catalogo fotografico.
«Che cosa è la fotografia se non verità momentanea, verità di un momento che contraddice altre verità di altri momenti?», è la domanda di Leonardo Sciascia riportata alla mente da Federica Montevecchi nel catalogo di “AAA Manifatture”, una nuovo progetto dedicato alle “r/esistenze del lavoro”, nello specifico quelle delle attività operaie manifatturiere, nei paesi di Firenzuola, Marradi e Palazzuolo sul Senio.
L’iniziativa vede il coinvolgimento dei lavoratori di realtà quali la Copser di Firenzuola, La Fabbrica dei Marroni di Marradi, oltre alla Meccanica RC e l’Elettromeccanica Misileo di Palazzuolo sul Senio, ed è la naturale continuazione di “Archivio Appennino-R/Esistenze” (Strategia Fotografia 2020), che andava ad indagare com’è ancora esistere e resistere nei luoghi dell’Alto Mugello.
Grazie alle immagini di Giancarlo Barzagli, Ilaria Di Biagio e Franco Guardascione si vuole indagare su un altro tipo di resistenza, ossia il lavoro manifatturiero, grazie al quale i tre comuni interessati (Marradi, Palazzuolo sul Senio e Firenzuola) riescono ancora a sopravvivere.
Modera l’evento Chiara Ruberti alla presenza della curatrice del catalogo Claudia Paladini.
From September 2023 - January 2024
Nicolò Degiorgis is an artist and publisher based between Bolzano and Bozen, Italy. His works comprise books, installations, collages, photographs, videos and maps that chart conceptually the territory and the communities where he lives. He teaches visual expression at the Penitential Institute of Bolzano-Bozen and works as artistic director at Rorhof, a publishing house operating in form of a social cooperative.
He graduated from the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (2008). He was the recipient of a Fabrica scholarship, Benetton’s research and communication center in Treviso (2008-09) and a research fellowship from the Faculty of Political and Social Science at the University of Trieste (2009-10).
He was guest-curator 2017 at Museion, Bolzano-Bozen, and publisher in residence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunste in Amsterdam (2018).
His works are held in numerous private and public collections and have been exhibited international
Nicolò Degiorgis is an artist and publisher based between Bolzano and Bozen, Italy. His works comprise books, installations, collages, photographs, videos and maps that chart conceptually the territory and the communities where he lives. He teaches visual expression at the Penitential Institute of Bolzano-Bozen and works as artistic director at Rorhof, a publishing house operating in form of a social cooperative.
He graduated from the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (2008). He was the recipient of a Fabrica scholarship, Benetton’s research and communication center in Treviso (2008-09) and a research fellowship from the Faculty of Political and Social Science at the University of Trieste (2009-10).
He was guest-curator 2017 at Museion, Bolzano-Bozen, and publisher in residence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunste in Amsterdam (2018).
His works are held in numerous private and public collections and have been exhibited internationally including at Maxxi and Macro in Rome, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Mambo in Bologna and Museion in Bolzano/Bozen.
Fotografo
Daniele Ratti
Born in Milan in 1974, he lives and works in Turin.
After graduating in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin, he has dedicated himself to professional photography since 2000. The first solo show dates back to 2004 and since then his artistic career has been flanked by other curatorial activities, among which the artistic direction of “Paratissima ”, The exhibition that has been held every year in Turin since 2006.
Some works are currently found in the permanent collections of the PAN in Naples, the Bartoli Felter Foundation in Cagliari and numerous private collections.
From 2013 he embarked on a project that took him to the former Italian colonies in Africa and overseas, and ended with two exhibitions, one at Expo 2015 in Milan and the second at Lugano at the Consulate General of Italy.
There are many collaborations that have been born since 2015 with some editorial publications, INTERNAZIONALE, and photography festivals, CORTONAONTHEMOVE.
From 2020 he is represen
Daniele Ratti
Born in Milan in 1974, he lives and works in Turin.
After graduating in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin, he has dedicated himself to professional photography since 2000. The first solo show dates back to 2004 and since then his artistic career has been flanked by other curatorial activities, among which the artistic direction of “Paratissima ”, The exhibition that has been held every year in Turin since 2006.
Some works are currently found in the permanent collections of the PAN in Naples, the Bartoli Felter Foundation in Cagliari and numerous private collections.
From 2013 he embarked on a project that took him to the former Italian colonies in Africa and overseas, and ended with two exhibitions, one at Expo 2015 in Milan and the second at Lugano at the Consulate General of Italy.
There are many collaborations that have been born since 2015 with some editorial publications, INTERNAZIONALE, and photography festivals, CORTONAONTHEMOVE.
From 2020 he is represented by Visionquest 4Rosso, an art gallery in Genova
Percorso artistico
Mostre personali
2022
“Terrasanta”, Genova, galleria Vision quest 4 Rosso
2021
“terrasanta”, orto botanico di Palermo, a cura di Maria Chiara di Trapani
“fragile”, Genova , esposizione diffusa in città, a cura dell’ordine architetti di Genova
“silenzio in sala a tempo di Musica” via Dante milano, a cura dell’associazionee Amur
2020
“ma noi Ricostruiremo” , Galleria d’Italia , Milano a Cura di Mario Calabresi
2017
“ON” fotografie del sito architettonico in tripoli di Oscar Neimayer, con Luisa Porta, Torino, Davide Paludetto art Gallery
“Labbra fuori fuoco” , ritratti di labbra sensuali e fuori fuoco per FISH AND CHIP erotic festival, Torino
2016
“Geografie” un progetto fotografico, artistico e letterario con Enrico T. Deparis ed Enrico Remmert
2013
“Eritalia ” una ricostruzione fotografica dell’architettura razionale italiana nelle ex colonie d’oltremare
2011
“strade bianche”da un racconto di Enrico Remmert una trasposizione in foto di Daniele Ratti
“che dire che fare che pensare?” banca reale mutua , Torino
“cavour” Carrara, museo
“Cavour” Torino, Teatro Regio
2010
“Trapassare?” Torino, Tonin Art Gallery
“Materica” Torino, Novalis FineArts,
2004
“Accensione” Torino, Spazio Espositivo Alcoll
Principali mostre collettive
2020
“covid 19 visual project” “ next stop”. Cortona on the Move, curato da Arianna Rinaldo
2018
“ Animali notturni “ , Paratissima Bologna, presso la sede dello IAAD
“ Utopia Rurale” presentazione ,con Luisa Porta, Eglise Art, Palermo
“ Creativamente Roero , DT1“ , con Saverio Todaro, Simone Martinetto, Guarene, a cura di Patrizia Rossello
“..come se il tempo non finisse mai” con Luisa Porta, here3, Torino , Cavallerizza
“Animali Notturni” Paratissima Bologna , presso Iaad
2017
“36littlegoodthings”, Cortonaonthemove, Toscana
2016
“Deposito d’arte 01”, presso Poppi, Toscana , a cura di Alessandro Stillo
“Interpretazioni” , parco d’arte quarelli , luglio 2016, Roccaverano
2015
“Eritalia”, presso Expo Milano, cascina Triulza
“Deposito d’arte 00” , presso Poppi , Toscana , a cura di Alessandro Stillo
“Rewind rewild” studio di avvocati rossi ed associati , Torino giugno 2015, a cura di Francesca Canfora
2014
” Eritalia “, consolato generale d’Italia Lugano, con Bruna Biamino
” destinazione d’uso” , castello di Rivara, a cura di Francesca Canfora
2012
“bam” , biennale fotografia piemontese ottobre 2012
“mad” vieste ,settembre 2012, selezionato tra gli 8 finalisti per la fotografia
2011
“sun soul various” a cura di Paratissima , presso Marco Rossi associati
“KM011” a cura di Luca Beatrice, Torino, Museo di Scienze Naturali,
“150 anni dopo” a cura di Patrizia Fischer, Torino,
2010
“About the City “, a cura di Alessandra Menesini, Cagliari, Fondazione Bartoli Felter
“Paratissima 6 ” Torino
2009
“Libera”, San Sebastiano Po
“Paratissima 5.2” Torino
2008
“Finzioni” , a cura di Luca Beatrice, Torino
“Riciclo”, Cagliari, Fondazione Bartoli Felter
“011” Torino, OGR (Officine Grandi Riparazioni)
“Paratissima 4 “, Torino
2007
“Velivolo” con Lorenza Capitanio, Milano, Livingluce
“War or Words” Cagliari, Fondazione Bartoli Felter,
“ParatIIIssima” Torino, Carceri Le Nuove
“Che Scatto”, Torino, Assessorato alla cultura , a cura di Francesco Poli
Rida Tabit, a cura di Roï Saade
all'interno del Middle East Now 2021
Middle East Now, in collaborazione con MAD, presenta in anteprima il lavoro del giovane fotografo marocchino Tabit Rida, 25 anni, uno dei talenti emergenti della fotografia dal Middle East. Fotografo autodidatta, Rida è sceso in strada per documentare la sua città natale, Marrakech, in questo momento storico senza precedenti. Mentre l’industria del turismo, principale fonte di reddito per la città, è stata pesantemente colpita dalla pandemia, Rida ha colto l’occasione per fotografare i numerosi cambiamenti e osservare la realtà spesso trascurata di Marrakech, al di là del turismo e della folla. Questo progetto, tra immagini fisse e video registrati col suo smartphone, rivela incontri di vita quotidiana in tempi di quiete, ricorda che il tempo non si è davvero fermato, e che la resistenza umana è un fenomeno naturale.
Progetto e mostra a cura del fotografo e artista libanese Roï Saade. Coordinamento set design di Archivio Personale.
Middle East Now, in collaborazione con MAD, presenta in anteprima il lavoro del giovane fotografo marocchino Tabit Rida, 25 anni, uno dei talenti emergenti della fotografia dal Middle East. Fotografo autodidatta, Rida è sceso in strada per documentare la sua città natale, Marrakech, in questo momento storico senza precedenti. Mentre l’industria del turismo, principale fonte di reddito per la città, è stata pesantemente colpita dalla pandemia, Rida ha colto l’occasione per fotografare i numerosi cambiamenti e osservare la realtà spesso trascurata di Marrakech, al di là del turismo e della folla. Questo progetto, tra immagini fisse e video registrati col suo smartphone, rivela incontri di vita quotidiana in tempi di quiete, ricorda che il tempo non si è davvero fermato, e che la resistenza umana è un fenomeno naturale.
Progetto e mostra a cura del fotografo e artista libanese Roï Saade. Coordinamento set design di Archivio Personale.
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Photographer
25 years old, born in Marrakech, Morocco. Rida’s passion for photography started in 2017 with a focus on social and documentary photography. His work reflects first and foremost his primary source of inspiration, which is the Moroccan culture.
In 2020, he co-founded Noorseen collective along with 13 moroccan young photographers.
After graduating with a master degree in Economics and Social sciences in 2020, he started using the medium of photography as a tool research to deal with social and economic issues.
For Rida, photography is a means to an end that he uses for a better understanding of the world, the people around him, and his own self.
25 years old, born in Marrakech, Morocco. Rida’s passion for photography started in 2017 with a focus on social and documentary photography. His work reflects first and foremost his primary source of inspiration, which is the Moroccan culture.
In 2020, he co-founded Noorseen collective along with 13 moroccan young photographers.
After graduating with a master degree in Economics and Social sciences in 2020, he started using the medium of photography as a tool research to deal with social and economic issues.
For Rida, photography is a means to an end that he uses for a better understanding of the world, the people around him, and his own self.
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RIVA Project 2021
The research of Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen focused on the landscape marked by anthropogenic presence, in particular the relationship between the human presence and natural elements, which was investigated by Minkkinen by adding elements of surrealist irony, where the human body is the subject and object of perception, in analogy to what philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty expressed. Working specifically on the self-portrait, Arno on the Arno (2016) takes on the features of a personal challenge: Arno versus Arno, as he himself likes to say, underlining his homonymy with the river. A “game of chess that you win and lose at the same time, whose final result can only be known ex post”.
The research of Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen focused on the landscape marked by anthropogenic presence, in particular the relationship between the human presence and natural elements, which was investigated by Minkkinen by adding elements of surrealist irony, where the human body is the subject and object of perception, in analogy to what philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty expressed. Working specifically on the self-portrait, Arno on the Arno (2016) takes on the features of a personal challenge: Arno versus Arno, as he himself likes to say, underlining his homonymy with the river. A “game of chess that you win and lose at the same time, whose final result can only be known ex post”.
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RIVA Project 2021
Massimo Vitali’s lens privileges crowded places, mostly the seashores brimming with people in bathing suits. The diptych commissioned by the RIVA Project (2016) is no exception: Vitali’s focus on the Arno yields images of two places distant from one another with a common denominator, the gathering of humans. The river is a place of aggregation, both for Fishermen, locals in a moment of relaxation, engaged in pleasant fishing competitions along the banks near the Cascine Park, and for Ponte Vecchio – Marangoni, with crowds of tourists lingering on the most famous bridge in the world. It is a frame that tells of an iconic landmark from an inner and improbable perspective, distant
from traditional iconography featuring the bridge and its goldsmith shops in the city landscape.
In collaboration with Fondazione Studio Marangoni
Massimo Vitali’s lens privileges crowded places, mostly the seashores brimming with people in bathing suits. The diptych commissioned by the RIVA Project (2016) is no exception: Vitali’s focus on the Arno yields images of two places distant from one another with a common denominator, the gathering of humans. The river is a place of aggregation, both for Fishermen, locals in a moment of relaxation, engaged in pleasant fishing competitions along the banks near the Cascine Park, and for Ponte Vecchio – Marangoni, with crowds of tourists lingering on the most famous bridge in the world. It is a frame that tells of an iconic landmark from an inner and improbable perspective, distant
from traditional iconography featuring the bridge and its goldsmith shops in the city landscape.
In collaboration with Fondazione Studio Marangoni
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RIVA Project 2021
Instead of using traditional photography techniques, the American photographer Jay Wolke relied on a small portable high-resolution scanner to explore varied surfaces and plots, which he then assembled and post-produced in a kaleidoscopic synthesis. By inverting the relationship between micro and macro, the author conveyed his investigation of the small elements on an innovative and monumental format, which translated small details into large and long vertical banners. Wolke used a combinatorial system to hold together the various souls of the Arno River, ranging from postcards for sale on noted tourist bridges to lichens on the cement of the river banks, icons linked to the imagery and the history of the river, plants and flowers growing spontaneously along the banks. Five key words were chosen by the author to pinpoint the various subjects displayed in the five works: Arno flow, Arno bridge, Arno love, Arno flood, Arno restore (2016).
Instead of using traditional photography techniques, the American photographer Jay Wolke relied on a small portable high-resolution scanner to explore varied surfaces and plots, which he then assembled and post-produced in a kaleidoscopic synthesis. By inverting the relationship between micro and macro, the author conveyed his investigation of the small elements on an innovative and monumental format, which translated small details into large and long vertical banners. Wolke used a combinatorial system to hold together the various souls of the Arno River, ranging from postcards for sale on noted tourist bridges to lichens on the cement of the river banks, icons linked to the imagery and the history of the river, plants and flowers growing spontaneously along the banks. Five key words were chosen by the author to pinpoint the various subjects displayed in the five works: Arno flow, Arno bridge, Arno love, Arno flood, Arno restore (2016).
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In I Guess the River Never Knew, the relationship with the river is represented by the physical barrier of one’s home, which sets the inhabitants away from their natural environment and all the same o ers an open window that, like a diaphragm, introjects the fluvial landscape as if it were a domestic dimension, making up for this distance.
In I Guess the River Never Knew, the relationship with the river is represented by the physical barrier of one’s home, which sets the inhabitants away from their natural environment and all the same o ers an open window that, like a diaphragm, introjects the fluvial landscape as if it were a domestic dimension, making up for this distance.
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A digital processing of old archive photos of the Town of Pontassieve linked to the 1966 flood gave rise to Flow, where past and present overlap in a space and time dimension: a careful survey led the photographer around the streets portrayed right after the flood, where she was confronted with places and viewpoints that are returned to the viewer through an alienating dialogue entrusting the dramatic 1966 flood to black and white images with inlays of present-day colour pictures.
A digital processing of old archive photos of the Town of Pontassieve linked to the 1966 flood gave rise to Flow, where past and present overlap in a space and time dimension: a careful survey led the photographer around the streets portrayed right after the flood, where she was confronted with places and viewpoints that are returned to the viewer through an alienating dialogue entrusting the dramatic 1966 flood to black and white images with inlays of present-day colour pictures.
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RIVA Project 2021
Adelmo’s portrait stems from the desire to bring together the moments of a lifetime into a single image. This work is in fact made up of thousands of small photographs that tell of the places, the activities, the loved ones of Mister Adelmo, an inhabitant of the borough of San Francesco who intertwined his existence with the Sieve waterwa
Adelmo’s portrait stems from the desire to bring together the moments of a lifetime into a single image. This work is in fact made up of thousands of small photographs that tell of the places, the activities, the loved ones of Mister Adelmo, an inhabitant of the borough of San Francesco who intertwined his existence with the Sieve waterwa
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The Third Bank of the River features a double exposure photograph, printed on organza and plunged into water. The outcome reveals the river seen as a symbol of a border – a theme addressed by the photographer in several instances – as well as an opportunity o ered by a new place to be experienced and shared, in which one can imagine and build poetic stories of waterways.
The Third Bank of the River features a double exposure photograph, printed on organza and plunged into water. The outcome reveals the river seen as a symbol of a border – a theme addressed by the photographer in several instances – as well as an opportunity o ered by a new place to be experienced and shared, in which one can imagine and build poetic stories of waterways.
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Confluent Encounters (2018) is an original project conceived in partnership with Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Toscano’s interest focused on the relationship between the fluvial and urban landscapes in the area of San Francesco (Pelago) and Pontassieve, where the Sieve and Arno waterways merge and anonymous anthropogenic details distinguish the scenery. The images, often captured vertically, result in a core sampling of the stratification of the territory and, once hung from the walls of the buildings of the Le Murate Complex, bring to mind the multifaceted relationship between architecture and nature.
Confluent Encounters (2018) is an original project conceived in partnership with Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Toscano’s interest focused on the relationship between the fluvial and urban landscapes in the area of San Francesco (Pelago) and Pontassieve, where the Sieve and Arno waterways merge and anonymous anthropogenic details distinguish the scenery. The images, often captured vertically, result in a core sampling of the stratification of the territory and, once hung from the walls of the buildings of the Le Murate Complex, bring to mind the multifaceted relationship between architecture and nature.
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RIVA Project 2021
The Days of the Flood (2016) gathers the results of a workshop focusing on the Arno River that involved students and young artists under-35 active in Tuscany. The participants worked as a real editorial board, initially drawing up and then producing a photo story about the river on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1966 flood. The choice of this form of sequential storytelling, pop and démodé, uses photographs to narrate a momentous event in the history of Florence in an ironic and modern fashion.
The Days of the Flood (2016) gathers the results of a workshop focusing on the Arno River that involved students and young artists under-35 active in Tuscany. The participants worked as a real editorial board, initially drawing up and then producing a photo story about the river on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1966 flood. The choice of this form of sequential storytelling, pop and démodé, uses photographs to narrate a momentous event in the history of Florence in an ironic and modern fashion.
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RIVA Project
In the photographic project Suspended (2018/2019), the inhabitants of San Francesco (Pelago) and Pontassieve walking near the river were invited to perform an unusual action. They were asked to jump on a trampoline specifically brought by the authors, and made a gesture that, with no manipulation or photomontage, allowed the photographers to portray them with the Sieve River in the background. The photographs taken by the authors thus relayed a perspective in which the locals, suspended in the air, are as close to as superimposed over the river, visually reconstructing a man/water relationship that goes beyond simply swimming in the river or posing in front of it.
The choice, shared with locals, to exhibit the monumental works produced by Delille and Woods for the RIVA Project on the façades of the buildings of the Le Murate Complex, including the one that houses MAD, was led by the desire to recall the strong bond between the Complex and the Arno River, since the original mona
In the photographic project Suspended (2018/2019), the inhabitants of San Francesco (Pelago) and Pontassieve walking near the river were invited to perform an unusual action. They were asked to jump on a trampoline specifically brought by the authors, and made a gesture that, with no manipulation or photomontage, allowed the photographers to portray them with the Sieve River in the background. The photographs taken by the authors thus relayed a perspective in which the locals, suspended in the air, are as close to as superimposed over the river, visually reconstructing a man/water relationship that goes beyond simply swimming in the river or posing in front of it.
The choice, shared with locals, to exhibit the monumental works produced by Delille and Woods for the RIVA Project on the façades of the buildings of the Le Murate Complex, including the one that houses MAD, was led by the desire to recall the strong bond between the Complex and the Arno River, since the original monastery was located right on the river banks, on the present Ponte alle Grazie bridge. The decision was made to enhance their project in a public framework, thinking also of the symbolic suggestion inspired by the context: Suspended and free, the protagonists stand out of the natural elements represented by water and air, and are displayed in a monumental dimension in a place that was originally conceived as a prison and that was eventually returned to the community.
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Riva Project 2021
Confluent Encounters (2018) is an original project conceived in partnership with Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Three professional photographers, entrusted with surveying the area of San Francesco (Pelago) and Pontassieve, focused on the landscape surrounding the waterways, in particular on the relationship between the river and human presence. A landscape where poetic glimpses – for instance, the point of confluence of the Sieve and Arno rivers – alternate with anthropized suburban snapshots, like the abandoned cement factory, vegetable gardens cultivated by locals, spontaneous bramble bushes, the grey viaduct covered with gra ti. The photographs taken by Marangoni, on the right, and Virdis, on the left, are displayed inside the Ketty La Rocca Hall, while the series of images taken by Toscano hang from the walls of the inner courtyard of the Le Murate complex. Some of these works were also exhibited in the towns of Pelago and Pontassieve and in the city of Florence using the spac
Confluent Encounters (2018) is an original project conceived in partnership with Fondazione Studio Marangoni. Three professional photographers, entrusted with surveying the area of San Francesco (Pelago) and Pontassieve, focused on the landscape surrounding the waterways, in particular on the relationship between the river and human presence. A landscape where poetic glimpses – for instance, the point of confluence of the Sieve and Arno rivers – alternate with anthropized suburban snapshots, like the abandoned cement factory, vegetable gardens cultivated by locals, spontaneous bramble bushes, the grey viaduct covered with gra ti. The photographs taken by Marangoni, on the right, and Virdis, on the left, are displayed inside the Ketty La Rocca Hall, while the series of images taken by Toscano hang from the walls of the inner courtyard of the Le Murate complex. Some of these works were also exhibited in the towns of Pelago and Pontassieve and in the city of Florence using the spaces reserved to public billposting, thus displaying images depicting the fluvial landscape of the Florentine metropolitan area in the urban context
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co-founder and director Black History Month Florence
Janine Gaëlle Dieudji is a bi-national French and Cameroonian graduate of Culture and International Relations from Lyon 3 University in France. She also holds a Master Degree in Political Science from Paris 2 Panthéon Assas University.
She’s been living in Florence, Italy, for the past six years, a city she has since fallen in love with. This is how Florence became home to her and the place where she started to build her career as an art professional. She considers herself as a ‘multilocal’ by believing that we belong to all the places we have lived in. Home is where the mind can create and feel rested at the same time. This is what the life journey is made for, exploring to become the person we decide to be.
Janine Gaëlle Dieudji is a bi-national French and Cameroonian graduate of Culture and International Relations from Lyon 3 University in France. She also holds a Master Degree in Political Science from Paris 2 Panthéon Assas University.
She’s been living in Florence, Italy, for the past six years, a city she has since fallen in love with. This is how Florence became home to her and the place where she started to build her career as an art professional. She considers herself as a ‘multilocal’ by believing that we belong to all the places we have lived in. Home is where the mind can create and feel rested at the same time. This is what the life journey is made for, exploring to become the person we decide to be.
co-founder and director Black History Month Florence
Justin Randolph Thompson is a new media artist, cultural facilitator and educator born in Peekskill, NY in ’79. Living between Italy and the US since 1999, Thompson is Co-Founder and Director of Black History Month Florence, a multi-faceted exploration of African and African Diasporic cultures in the context of Italy founded in 2016.
Thompson is a recipient of a Louise Comfort Tiffany Award, a Franklin Furnace Fund Award, a Visual Artist Grant from the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, A Jerome Fellowship from Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park. His life and work seek to deepen the discussions around socio-cultural stratification and hierarchical organization by employing fleeting temporary communities as monuments and fostering projects that connect academic discourse social activism and DIY networking strategies in annual and biennial gathering, sharing and gestures of collectivity.
Justin Randolph Thompson is a new media artist, cultural facilitator and educator born in Peekskill, NY in ’79. Living between Italy and the US since 1999, Thompson is Co-Founder and Director of Black History Month Florence, a multi-faceted exploration of African and African Diasporic cultures in the context of Italy founded in 2016.
Thompson is a recipient of a Louise Comfort Tiffany Award, a Franklin Furnace Fund Award, a Visual Artist Grant from the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, two Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants, A Jerome Fellowship from Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park. His life and work seek to deepen the discussions around socio-cultural stratification and hierarchical organization by employing fleeting temporary communities as monuments and fostering projects that connect academic discourse social activism and DIY networking strategies in annual and biennial gathering, sharing and gestures of collectivity.
Evento speciale di punta di questa edizione di Middle East Now festival
The works of 7 talented young Middle Eastern photographers – Myriam Boulos, Sina Shiri, Abdo Shanan, Amir Hazim, Reem Falaknaz, Erdem Varol, Mouad Abillat – brought together to provide a personal visual perspective of their city – Beirut, Tehran, Algieri, Baghdad, Dubai, Istanbul, Marrakesh – on a specific day of the week.
The result, SEVEN BY SEVEN, is a collective voice and vision, and at the same time a set of personal and highly original points of view on the life of people in the Middle East, a visual narrative alternative to the media representation of these cities, very often negative and linked to the facts of news and geopolitics.
As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
SEVEN BY SEVEN is also presented through a special online platf
The works of 7 talented young Middle Eastern photographers – Myriam Boulos, Sina Shiri, Abdo Shanan, Amir Hazim, Reem Falaknaz, Erdem Varol, Mouad Abillat – brought together to provide a personal visual perspective of their city – Beirut, Tehran, Algieri, Baghdad, Dubai, Istanbul, Marrakesh – on a specific day of the week.
The result, SEVEN BY SEVEN, is a collective voice and vision, and at the same time a set of personal and highly original points of view on the life of people in the Middle East, a visual narrative alternative to the media representation of these cities, very often negative and linked to the facts of news and geopolitics.
As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
SEVEN BY SEVEN is also presented through a special online platform – 7×7.middleastnow.it – which allows visitors to digitally explore the work of the 7 photographers and their visual account of the cities in which they live.
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Original project produced by Middle East Now Festival, conceived and curated by Roï Saade and co-produced by Murate Art District.
"In this era of revolutions, unrest, exclusion and individualism, photography can play a fundamental role in building bridges between communities in the Middle East and North Africa. The objective of this project is to explore the differences and similarities found in each city and celebrate their diversity and complexity". , Roï Saade.
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Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Myriam Boulos. Born in Beirut in 1992, she graduated in photography from the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in 2015. She has taken part in international group exhibitions including Photomed, Beirut Art Fair, Berlin PhotoWeek, Mashreq to Maghreb (Dresden, Germany), Beyond boundaries (New York), C’est Beyrouth (Paris) and 3ème biennale des Photographes du monde arabe (Paris), and received the Byblos Bank Award for Photography in 2014. He uses his camera to interrogate the city and its people, and his photos are a mix of documentary and personal research.
Myriam Boulos. Born in Beirut in 1992, she graduated in photography from the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in 2015. She has taken part in international group exhibitions including Photomed, Beirut Art Fair, Berlin PhotoWeek, Mashreq to Maghreb (Dresden, Germany), Beyond boundaries (New York), C’est Beyrouth (Paris) and 3ème biennale des Photographes du monde arabe (Paris), and received the Byblos Bank Award for Photography in 2014. He uses his camera to interrogate the city and its people, and his photos are a mix of documentary and personal research.
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Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Sina Shiri. He was born in Rasht, Iran in 1991. He started photography at the age of 16 and has since worked in various Iranian press agencies and magazines as a photographer. Today he is a freelancer and focuses on social issues and themes.
Sina Shiri. He was born in Rasht, Iran in 1991. He started photography at the age of 16 and has since worked in various Iranian press agencies and magazines as a photographer. Today he is a freelancer and focuses on social issues and themes.
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As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
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Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Abdo was born in 1982 in Oran, Algeria, to a Sudanese father and Algerian mother. He studied engineering at the University of Sirte, Libya, until 2006. In 2012 an internship at Magnum Photos Paris gave him the opportunity to reflect on his photographic approach and produce his first short story for the magazine “Rukh”. His photographs have been published in numerous international magazines and newspapers. In 2015 he received a nomination for the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, in 2019 he won the CAP (Contemporary African Photography) award for his project “Dry”, in the same year he was selected for Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo.
Abdo was born in 1982 in Oran, Algeria, to a Sudanese father and Algerian mother. He studied engineering at the University of Sirte, Libya, until 2006. In 2012 an internship at Magnum Photos Paris gave him the opportunity to reflect on his photographic approach and produce his first short story for the magazine “Rukh”. His photographs have been published in numerous international magazines and newspapers. In 2015 he received a nomination for the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, in 2019 he won the CAP (Contemporary African Photography) award for his project “Dry”, in the same year he was selected for Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo.
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As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
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Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Amir Hazim is an artist and photographer based in Baghdad. He graduated from Baghdad College of Fine Arts and began his professional career in 2019, publishing in Arab News, The National and many others.
Amir Hazim is an artist and photographer based in Baghdad. He graduated from Baghdad College of Fine Arts and began his professional career in 2019, publishing in Arab News, The National and many others.
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As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
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Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Reem Falaknaz documents with his artistic work the social and physical landscape of the United Arab Emirates and its inhabitants. In 2014 he took part in the prestigious Arab Documentary Photography Program, and his international participations include the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 and the Lahore Biennale in 2020.
Reem Falaknaz documents with his artistic work the social and physical landscape of the United Arab Emirates and its inhabitants. In 2014 he took part in the prestigious Arab Documentary Photography Program, and his international participations include the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 and the Lahore Biennale in 2020.
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As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
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Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Erdem Varol. Born in 1988, he lives in Istanbul. In 2017 Erdem published his first book “Free Fall” together with two fanzines, published in 2018 and 2019 respectively. He has held solo and group exhibitions in Turkey, Italy, France and elsewhere.
Erdem Varol. Born in 1988, he lives in Istanbul. In 2017 Erdem published his first book “Free Fall” together with two fanzines, published in 2018 and 2019 respectively. He has held solo and group exhibitions in Turkey, Italy, France and elsewhere.
The works of 7 talented young Middle Eastern photographers on a specific day of the week
Erdem Varol | Saturdays in Instanbul
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7X7 Transcultural narratives from the Middle east and North Africa. Curated by Roi Saade
Mouad Abillat is a Moroccan photographer and director. He has a degree in Audiovisual Technician and has also studied photography and screenwriting, which has influenced his style and led him to develop an interest in storytelling. By photographing young people on the streets of Marrakech with a unique and original style, he strives to portray the contradictions and fight against the stereotypes faced by the new generations today.
Mouad Abillat is a Moroccan photographer and director. He has a degree in Audiovisual Technician and has also studied photography and screenwriting, which has influenced his style and led him to develop an interest in storytelling. By photographing young people on the streets of Marrakech with a unique and original style, he strives to portray the contradictions and fight against the stereotypes faced by the new generations today.
The works of 7 talented young Middle Eastern photographers on a specific day of the week
Mouad Abillat | Sundays in Marrakesh
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As an integral part of the project, the curator has created, exclusively for the festival, 7 newspapers that can be browsed in the exhibition: 7 newspapers in whose pages the story is developed through images of every day of a hypothetical week in the Middle East.
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Photographer
Peter Bialobrzeski vive e lavora ad Amburgo. Ha studiato fotografia e design alla Folkwangschule di Essen e al London College of Printing. I sui lavori sono stati esposti in Europa, Stati Uniti, Asia, Africa e Australia. Ha vinto numerosi premi tra cui due World Press Photo Award, nel 2003 e nel 2010. Dal 2002 è professore di fotografia alla University of the Arts di Brema, Germania. È rappresentato dalla Laurence Miller Gallery di New York e da LA Galerie di Francoforte. Ad oggi ha pubblicato più di diciotto libri fotografici, tra cui Neon Tigers (2004), Lost in Transition (2007), Paradise Now (2009), Case Study Homes (2009), The Raw and the Cooked (2011).
Peter Bialobrzeski vive e lavora ad Amburgo. Ha studiato fotografia e design alla Folkwangschule di Essen e al London College of Printing. I sui lavori sono stati esposti in Europa, Stati Uniti, Asia, Africa e Australia. Ha vinto numerosi premi tra cui due World Press Photo Award, nel 2003 e nel 2010. Dal 2002 è professore di fotografia alla University of the Arts di Brema, Germania. È rappresentato dalla Laurence Miller Gallery di New York e da LA Galerie di Francoforte. Ad oggi ha pubblicato più di diciotto libri fotografici, tra cui Neon Tigers (2004), Lost in Transition (2007), Paradise Now (2009), Case Study Homes (2009), The Raw and the Cooked (2011).
Photographer
Adji Dieye is an ItaloSenegalese photographer born in Milan in 1991. She graduated in New Technologies for Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. Over the past years she has been traveling between Milan and Dakar, focusing her research on the influence of advertisement in the African visual culture. Her work explores different facets of West African societies; the influence of advertising in the construction of a national identity and the syncretic spirituality that remains central to African communities.
Adji Dieye’s artistic practice pushes the boundaries of photography in an attempt to investigate the archetypes that constitute African visual cultures. In her research, the continent is never considered an end in itself; instead, it represents a bridge towards further investigations into broader social and geopolitical realities.
Adji Dieye is an ItaloSenegalese photographer born in Milan in 1991. She graduated in New Technologies for Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan. Over the past years she has been traveling between Milan and Dakar, focusing her research on the influence of advertisement in the African visual culture. Her work explores different facets of West African societies; the influence of advertising in the construction of a national identity and the syncretic spirituality that remains central to African communities.
Adji Dieye’s artistic practice pushes the boundaries of photography in an attempt to investigate the archetypes that constitute African visual cultures. In her research, the continent is never considered an end in itself; instead, it represents a bridge towards further investigations into broader social and geopolitical realities.
Black History Month Florence 2020
An exhibition that examines the implementation of social obligations towards dirty work, the shortcomings of cultural assimilation, the silencing of histories and the politics of respectability.
The artists in the exhibition each draw upon experiences of a periods of permanence in Italy that pushes them to engage the cities of Rome, Umbertide, Milan and Florence as sites for cultural production with the need to engage history while not falling victim to it.
Activist Pape Diaw, in a 2013 interview spoke of “…sporcarsi le mani per fare un lavoro pulito “, literally getting our hands dirty to do a clean job. This contradiction is at the core of a social context where dirty work is engaged in to maintain a status governed by the politics of respectability and social policing.
The exhibition, curated by Black History Month Florence, as part of the 5th edition of BHMF, in collaboration with Villa Romana (Florence), Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Umbertide) and Galleria Continua (San Gim
An exhibition that examines the implementation of social obligations towards dirty work, the shortcomings of cultural assimilation, the silencing of histories and the politics of respectability.
The artists in the exhibition each draw upon experiences of a periods of permanence in Italy that pushes them to engage the cities of Rome, Umbertide, Milan and Florence as sites for cultural production with the need to engage history while not falling victim to it.
Activist Pape Diaw, in a 2013 interview spoke of “…sporcarsi le mani per fare un lavoro pulito “, literally getting our hands dirty to do a clean job. This contradiction is at the core of a social context where dirty work is engaged in to maintain a status governed by the politics of respectability and social policing.
The exhibition, curated by Black History Month Florence, as part of the 5th edition of BHMF, in collaboration with Villa Romana (Florence), Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Umbertide) and Galleria Continua (San Gimignano), presents the work of 6 international artists who have used the Italian context as a place of artistic production. A series of transversal works leads to a reworking of stereotyped notions of Made in Italy that tend to exclude Afro-descendents, revealing colonial attitudes and inviting and breaking preconceptions.
An insistence on personal narratives as an override to the flattened projections of Blackness, the construction of bridges between a colonial past and a neo-colonial contemporary reality and the ethereality of monumentality all infuse these works with a meditation on the past as a marker of what’s to come.
Together they form a harmonic melody that is discordant with the prescribed, centralized, consumed narrative but finds just enough alignment to relay its power to enrich the age-old tune
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Photographer, video artist, performer
Sasha Huber (CH/FI) is a visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage, born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975. She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Huber’s work is primarily concerned with the politics of memory and belonging, particularly in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Sensitive to the subtle threads connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Huber is also claiming the compressed-air staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics. She is known for her artistic research contribution to the Demounting Louis Agassiz campaign, aiming at dismantling the glaciologist’s lesser-known but contentious racist heritage. This long-term project (since 2008) has been concerned with unearthing and redressing the little-known history
Sasha Huber (CH/FI) is a visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage, born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975. She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Huber’s work is primarily concerned with the politics of memory and belonging, particularly in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Sensitive to the subtle threads connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Huber is also claiming the compressed-air staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics. She is known for her artistic research contribution to the Demounting Louis Agassiz campaign, aiming at dismantling the glaciologist’s lesser-known but contentious racist heritage. This long-term project (since 2008) has been concerned with unearthing and redressing the little-known history and cultural legacies of the Swiss-born naturalist and glaciologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), an influential proponent of “scientific” racism who advocated for segregation and “racial hygiene”. Huber has had solo exhibitions such as at the Hasselblad Foundation (Project Room) in Gothenburg and participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the 56th la Biennale di Venezia in 2015 (collateral exhibition: Frontier Reimagined), the 19th Biennale of Sydney in 2014, and in the 29th Biennial of São Paulo in 2010.
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Delio Jasse was born in 1980 in Luanda, Angola and lives and works in Milan. In his photographic work, he often interweaves found images with clues from past lives (found passport photos, family albums) to draw links between photography – in particular the concept of the ‘latent image’ – and memory.
Jasse is also known for experimenting with analogue photographic printing processes, including cyanotype, platinum and early printing processes such as ‘Van Dyke Brown’, as well as developing his own printing techniques.
Recent exhibitions include: MAXXI, Rome (2018); Villa Romana, Florence (2018); Biennale dell’immagine, Lugano (solo, 2017); Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm (2017); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2017); Bamako Encounters, Bamako (2017); Lagos Biennial, Lagos (2017); Tiwani Contemporary, London (solo, 2016); Walther Collection Project Space, NY (2016); Dak’art Biennale international exhibition (2016); and the Angolan Pavilion, 56th Venice
Delio Jasse was born in 1980 in Luanda, Angola and lives and works in Milan. In his photographic work, he often interweaves found images with clues from past lives (found passport photos, family albums) to draw links between photography – in particular the concept of the ‘latent image’ – and memory.
Jasse is also known for experimenting with analogue photographic printing processes, including cyanotype, platinum and early printing processes such as ‘Van Dyke Brown’, as well as developing his own printing techniques.
Recent exhibitions include: MAXXI, Rome (2018); Villa Romana, Florence (2018); Biennale dell’immagine, Lugano (solo, 2017); Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm (2017); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2017); Bamako Encounters, Bamako (2017); Lagos Biennial, Lagos (2017); Tiwani Contemporary, London (solo, 2016); Walther Collection Project Space, NY (2016); Dak’art Biennale international exhibition (2016); and the Angolan Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale (2015). He was one of three finalists in the BES Photo Prize (2014) and won the Iwalewa Art Award in 2015.
Fotografo, video artista, scultore
Nari Ward (nato nel 1963 a St. Andrew, Giamaica; vive e lavora a New York) è noto per le sue installazioni scultoree composte da materiale di scarto trovato e raccolto nel suo quartiere. Ha riutilizzato oggetti come passeggini, carrelli della spesa, bottiglie, porte, televisori, registratori di cassa e lacci delle scarpe.
Ward ricontestualizza questi oggetti trovati in giustapposizioni stimolanti che creano significati metaforici complessi per affrontare questioni sociali e politiche che circondano la razza, la povertà e la cultura del consumo. Lascia intenzionalmente aperto il significato del suo lavoro, consentendo allo spettatore di fornire la propria interpretazione.
Mostre personali del suo lavoro sono state organizzate presso l’Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017); SocratesSculpture Park, New York (2017); The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2016); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2015); Savannah College of Art e Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2015); Museo d’ar
Nari Ward (nato nel 1963 a St. Andrew, Giamaica; vive e lavora a New York) è noto per le sue installazioni scultoree composte da materiale di scarto trovato e raccolto nel suo quartiere. Ha riutilizzato oggetti come passeggini, carrelli della spesa, bottiglie, porte, televisori, registratori di cassa e lacci delle scarpe.
Ward ricontestualizza questi oggetti trovati in giustapposizioni stimolanti che creano significati metaforici complessi per affrontare questioni sociali e politiche che circondano la razza, la povertà e la cultura del consumo. Lascia intenzionalmente aperto il significato del suo lavoro, consentendo allo spettatore di fornire la propria interpretazione.
Mostre personali del suo lavoro sono state organizzate presso l’Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017); SocratesSculpture Park, New York (2017); The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2016); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2015); Savannah College of Art e Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2015); Museo d’arte della Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (2014); The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2011); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (2011); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2002); e Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2001, 2000).
Justin Randolph Thompson, co-founder and director Black History Month Florence
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Black History Month Florence 2020
A Villa Romana project in collaboration with Black History Month Florence
Black Archive Alliance brings an unusual perspective to Florence: that of nine students searching for signs of an African presence in the city. The project, which resulted from the collaboration between the Villa Romana and Black History Month Florence and which is now in its second edition, interweaves different areas and time periods. The narratives that emerged from this excavation exercise are fragments of a little-known, if not completely unknown Florence and its political, social and economic entanglements with Africa, Africans and the Diaspora since the 15th century.
The work ranges from research centres par excellence, such as the Biblioteca Laurenziana and the Archivio del Risorgimento, to study centres known mainly to specialists, such as the Istituto Agronomico dell’Oltremare (now one of the headquarters of the Italian Agency for International Cooperation) and the Istituto Geografico Militare, to pri
A Villa Romana project in collaboration with Black History Month Florence
Black Archive Alliance brings an unusual perspective to Florence: that of nine students searching for signs of an African presence in the city. The project, which resulted from the collaboration between the Villa Romana and Black History Month Florence and which is now in its second edition, interweaves different areas and time periods. The narratives that emerged from this excavation exercise are fragments of a little-known, if not completely unknown Florence and its political, social and economic entanglements with Africa, Africans and the Diaspora since the 15th century.
The work ranges from research centres par excellence, such as the Biblioteca Laurenziana and the Archivio del Risorgimento, to study centres known mainly to specialists, such as the Istituto Agronomico dell’Oltremare (now one of the headquarters of the Italian Agency for International Cooperation) and the Istituto Geografico Militare, to private collections in Palazzo Pitti with the treasure of the Grand Dukes. The second edition of Black Archive Alliance was carried out as a tutoring format with teachers and scholars in tandem with students, guiding their research. The project collaborated with scholars from Università degli Studi Firenze, Studio Arts College International, NYU Florence, Villa I Tatti, Syracuse University Florence, Santa Reparata International School of Art and ISI Florence.
The exhibition at Murate Art District presents a selection of the research results and links to the exhibition format of Black Archive Alliance’s first edition, which used information stands at various locations and institutions in the city to reveal the unknown or forgotten stories of moments of contact and encounters between Florence and Africa.
Curated by Justin Randolph Thompson, BHMF and Agnes Stillger, Villa Romana
Photographer
Mohamed Keita was born in Côte d’Ivoire in 1993. At the age of 14, he left his country in the middle of a civil war to travel alone between Guinea, Mali, Algeria and Libya, where he embarked to cross the Mediterranean. After landing in Malta, he managed to reach Italy in 2010. When he arrived in Rome, at the age of 17, he lived on the street for a few months and began to attend the Civico Zero day care centre for minors in Savethechildren, where he was given his first camera.
He lives and works in Rome where he teaches photography at the Civico Zero center. In 2017 he opened a workshop for street children in Mali.
Main exhibitions and awards:
“Piedi, scarpe, bagagli”, Camera dei Deputati, Roma, 2012
“Ritratti”, XII Festival Internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Roma, 2014
Premio ‘young/old photographer’ PHC Capalbio fotografia, 2015
“Desperate crossing” mostra di Mohamed Keita e Paolo Pellegrin, Istituto italiano di cultura di New York, 2016
“Par l’errance”, Centro d
Mohamed Keita was born in Côte d’Ivoire in 1993. At the age of 14, he left his country in the middle of a civil war to travel alone between Guinea, Mali, Algeria and Libya, where he embarked to cross the Mediterranean. After landing in Malta, he managed to reach Italy in 2010. When he arrived in Rome, at the age of 17, he lived on the street for a few months and began to attend the Civico Zero day care centre for minors in Savethechildren, where he was given his first camera.
He lives and works in Rome where he teaches photography at the Civico Zero center. In 2017 he opened a workshop for street children in Mali.
Main exhibitions and awards:
“Piedi, scarpe, bagagli”, Camera dei Deputati, Roma, 2012
“Ritratti”, XII Festival Internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Roma, 2014
Premio ‘young/old photographer’ PHC Capalbio fotografia, 2015
“Desperate crossing” mostra di Mohamed Keita e Paolo Pellegrin, Istituto italiano di cultura di New York, 2016
“Par l’errance”, Centro d’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, 2018
“Rothko in Lampedusa”, mostra collettiva organizzata da UNHCR, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Venezia, 2019
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Photography exhibition by Mohamed Keita
Mohamed Keita’s residence at MAD Murate Art District focusing on images of institutional integration and volunteering in the media. The project took shape through visits to reception centres based in the Florence area. There, Mohamed Keita took the shots on display in this exhibition, which offer a different representation of otherness; a divergence that is not only the subject of our gaze and thoughts, but also leads us to a different way of thinking and looking.
_ Nowadays the images are so many and widespread to be unquantifiable. The speed that characterizes the visual and cognitive fruition in digital media makes their approach increasingly detached and fleeting. Starting from this observation, the exhibition is designed with the aim of creating a time for the image, citing the composition of the medieval and renaissance altarpieces. The exhibition, without captions, wants to show itself as a visual story, in which the viewer’s thought can find space to explore.
_ The first wo
Mohamed Keita’s residence at MAD Murate Art District focusing on images of institutional integration and volunteering in the media. The project took shape through visits to reception centres based in the Florence area. There, Mohamed Keita took the shots on display in this exhibition, which offer a different representation of otherness; a divergence that is not only the subject of our gaze and thoughts, but also leads us to a different way of thinking and looking.
_ Nowadays the images are so many and widespread to be unquantifiable. The speed that characterizes the visual and cognitive fruition in digital media makes their approach increasingly detached and fleeting. Starting from this observation, the exhibition is designed with the aim of creating a time for the image, citing the composition of the medieval and renaissance altarpieces. The exhibition, without captions, wants to show itself as a visual story, in which the viewer’s thought can find space to explore.
_ The first works on show are a series of shots that frame architectural details; the spaces introduce the story, capturing the look with a simple chromatic effect. But the man immediately begins to be evoked with the presence of some objects such as clothes stretched out in the sun. The exhibition continues with a dialogue between portraits of the guests and details of the places where they live, ending with a diptych of portraits. Mohamed avoids producing pietistic or stereotyped portraits, he prefers to portray people in their individual humanity and he doesen’t want to tell their stories. You need to go beyond piety to accept otherness.
_ The relationship between geometric structures and portraits is a stylistic and narrative choice of the photographer, who create the composition to capture the gaze, to push it to pause and to take time. This shots activates a thought that does not stop at the surface but is able to savor the message of the image, to discover its true content.
In the residency survey were also created two ‘tales’, here exposed, which try to look from inside the world of SPRAR and volunteering, accompanied by images of Aboubacar Kourouma, guest of a reception centre.
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Fotografa
Lucia Baldini vive a San Giovanni Valdarno, punto di partenza del suo viaggio fotografico. Fin dai primi anni di lavoro, facendo parte della casa discografica Materiali Sonori, attraverso mostre, copertine di dischi e collaborazioni con testate musicali, le sue immagini sono divenute un’importante testimonianza della scena underground musicale degli anni Ottanta. Lavora come fotografa di scena per molte compagnie e festival di teatro e danza. Dal 1990 trova una forte affinità con la cultura del tango argentino. Nel 1997 pubblica il libro fotografico “Giorni di Tango” che diviene il catalogo della mostra omonima. Entra in contatto con le più interessanti realtà legate al tango argentino e nel 2001, in collaborazione con la giornalista Michela Fregona, realizza il volume “Anime Altrove – luoghi e genti del tango argentino in Italia”. Nel 1996, con lo spettacolo “Omaggio a Nijinsky”, diretto da Beppe Menegatti, inizia la collaborazione con Carla Fracci, che durerà per
Lucia Baldini vive a San Giovanni Valdarno, punto di partenza del suo viaggio fotografico. Fin dai primi anni di lavoro, facendo parte della casa discografica Materiali Sonori, attraverso mostre, copertine di dischi e collaborazioni con testate musicali, le sue immagini sono divenute un’importante testimonianza della scena underground musicale degli anni Ottanta. Lavora come fotografa di scena per molte compagnie e festival di teatro e danza. Dal 1990 trova una forte affinità con la cultura del tango argentino. Nel 1997 pubblica il libro fotografico “Giorni di Tango” che diviene il catalogo della mostra omonima. Entra in contatto con le più interessanti realtà legate al tango argentino e nel 2001, in collaborazione con la giornalista Michela Fregona, realizza il volume “Anime Altrove – luoghi e genti del tango argentino in Italia”. Nel 1996, con lo spettacolo “Omaggio a Nijinsky”, diretto da Beppe Menegatti, inizia la collaborazione con Carla Fracci, che durerà per oltre 12 anni. Nel 2003 pubblica per la Materiali Sonori il libro fotografico: “Banda Improvvisa, cinquanta angeli musicanti sospesi su un cielo di note “. Nel 2005 i libri vengono pubblicati due nuovi progetti editoriali: “Carla Fracci – Immagini”: una monografia fotografica che testimonia la lunga collaborazione con la Fracci, e “Tangomalìa”, i due libri divengono mostre che vengono accolte in Italia e all’estero.
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Mostra fotografica di Lucia Baldini
Il progetto fotografico “In Cartoons”, promosso da Baleri Italia e ispirato alla collezione Cartoons di Luigi Baroli (Compasso d’Oro 1994), ha raccontato in ventotto scatti un viaggio alla scoperta di Firenze e di chi quotidianamente vive la città, fianco a fianco con il celebre paravento. I protagonisti sono professionisti di ambiti differenti, persone che con le loro attività rappresentano modelli positivi e la vera identità del territorio (da Andrea Ferrara direttore di ricerca della Normale di Pisa allo scrittore Vanni Santoni, a Fuad Aziz artista riconosciuto a livello internazionale, alle Dragon Boat, donne impegnate nella ricerca contro il cancro, Sergio Staino in dialogo con il suo Bobo, una stele in omaggio al poeta Mario Luzi e ancora molti altri interessanti personaggi).
Ogni scatto ha raccontato dell’incontro tra Cartoons e un diverso personaggio, ritratti insieme nell’ambiente più emblematico per lo stesso. Cartoons diventa così un interlocutore
Il progetto fotografico “In Cartoons”, promosso da Baleri Italia e ispirato alla collezione Cartoons di Luigi Baroli (Compasso d’Oro 1994), ha raccontato in ventotto scatti un viaggio alla scoperta di Firenze e di chi quotidianamente vive la città, fianco a fianco con il celebre paravento. I protagonisti sono professionisti di ambiti differenti, persone che con le loro attività rappresentano modelli positivi e la vera identità del territorio (da Andrea Ferrara direttore di ricerca della Normale di Pisa allo scrittore Vanni Santoni, a Fuad Aziz artista riconosciuto a livello internazionale, alle Dragon Boat, donne impegnate nella ricerca contro il cancro, Sergio Staino in dialogo con il suo Bobo, una stele in omaggio al poeta Mario Luzi e ancora molti altri interessanti personaggi).
Ogni scatto ha raccontato dell’incontro tra Cartoons e un diverso personaggio, ritratti insieme nell’ambiente più emblematico per lo stesso. Cartoons diventa così un interlocutore con cui ognuno è chiamato a interagire, raccontandosi anche attraverso questo versatile oggetto di design. Omaggio al padre di Cartoons, uno scatto con lo stesso Luigi Baroli, che si aggiunge ai volti toscani e alle loro storie Lavorare trasversalmente su mondi paralleli per creare, grazie ad un fil rouge comune, un racconto inedito, è il modus operandi di Lucia Baldini – riscontrabile anche in altri suoi lavori (come Tangonalìa o il percorso di 12 anni insieme a Carla Fracci).
“Cartoons l’ho scoperto in un bel negozio di design a Firenze. Per questo ho pensato fosse bello far partire il viaggio con Cartoons proprio da questa città” afferma Lucia Baldini “Il progetto In Cartoons è stato esso stesso un viaggio, in cui Cartoons è stato un compagno complice e ludico”.
La mostra “In Cartoons” faceva parte del progetto “Reading in the Square” ed è stato uno degli eventi dell’Estate Fiorentina 2019.
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Promoted by the MUS.E Association under the artistic direction of Valentina Gensini
In 2018, the RIVA Project resumed its collaboration with Pelago and Montelupo Fiorentino, involving both the historic centre and the outskirts of Florence. Its action paid special attention to environmental issues, as well as the economic, political, and social context. One of the principal events was Paolo Masi’s solo show QUI with a display of twelve new site-specific artworks produced during his six-month residency at MAD Murate Art District. Montelupo Fiorentino was the centre of activity for Yuval Avital and the ConFusion migrant choir directed by Benedetta Manfriani, for Tempo Reale and its Sentieri del silenzio (Paths of Silence) project carried out at the former psychiatric hospital, and for Radio Papesse with Storie dell’Arno a Montelupo (Histories of the Arno in Montelupo). The other town crossed by the Arno, Pelago, hosted photographer Davide Virdis (who presented an exhibit in a public space and held a workshop in collaboration with Fondazione Studio Marangoni) and Stud
In 2018, the RIVA Project resumed its collaboration with Pelago and Montelupo Fiorentino, involving both the historic centre and the outskirts of Florence. Its action paid special attention to environmental issues, as well as the economic, political, and social context. One of the principal events was Paolo Masi’s solo show QUI with a display of twelve new site-specific artworks produced during his six-month residency at MAD Murate Art District. Montelupo Fiorentino was the centre of activity for Yuval Avital and the ConFusion migrant choir directed by Benedetta Manfriani, for Tempo Reale and its Sentieri del silenzio (Paths of Silence) project carried out at the former psychiatric hospital, and for Radio Papesse with Storie dell’Arno a Montelupo (Histories of the Arno in Montelupo). The other town crossed by the Arno, Pelago, hosted photographer Davide Virdis (who presented an exhibit in a public space and held a workshop in collaboration with Fondazione Studio Marangoni) and Studio ++ collective art group.
The Murate Art District was the venue for lectures and Italian and English classes held by LWCircus and the Department of Architecture from the University of Florence. The 2018 edition of the RIVA Project opened to the Far East thanks to a partnership with Zhong Art International, and offered a residency at MAD to three Chinese artists, who were invited to provide their specific vision of the Arno River.
Photographer, video artist
Mohammad Alfaraj’s (b. 1993 in Al Hassa, KSA, where he lives and works), practice centers around his exploration of the relationship between forms and concepts, is visible through superimposed stories in his photographic collages, regrouping and contrasting fiction and non-fiction subjects. Alfaraj’s work also often uses natural materials found in his hometown and combines them with children games and stories from people working the land, as an attempt to create states of co-existence between man and nature with an undertone of hope. A socio-environment activist at heart, his short documentary Lost, 2015 (which was awarded first place in the student category at the Saudi Film Festival), captures the latent state of the notion of temporality for the stateless Arabs living as refugees in their place of birth, and the dehumanizing effect this plays. This “un-homely” context portrays the poisonous beauty of nature when lived as a nemesis under political paralysis.
Alfaraj g
Mohammad Alfaraj’s (b. 1993 in Al Hassa, KSA, where he lives and works), practice centers around his exploration of the relationship between forms and concepts, is visible through superimposed stories in his photographic collages, regrouping and contrasting fiction and non-fiction subjects. Alfaraj’s work also often uses natural materials found in his hometown and combines them with children games and stories from people working the land, as an attempt to create states of co-existence between man and nature with an undertone of hope. A socio-environment activist at heart, his short documentary Lost, 2015 (which was awarded first place in the student category at the Saudi Film Festival), captures the latent state of the notion of temporality for the stateless Arabs living as refugees in their place of birth, and the dehumanizing effect this plays. This “un-homely” context portrays the poisonous beauty of nature when lived as a nemesis under political paralysis.
Alfaraj graduated with a BA in mechanical engineering from KFUPM in 2017. His recent solo show; Still Life and Plastic Dreams, Athr Gallery, Jeddah KSA (2020), and group shows include I Love You Urgently, 21,39 SAC, Jeddah, KSA (2020), Durational Portrait; A brief overview of video art in Saudi Arabia, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, KSA (2020), Sharjah Islamic Festival, Sharjah, UAE (2019). His work has also been shown at the Sharjah Art Foundation; Le Murate Pac, Florence (2019); Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2018); 21,39 Jeddah Arts (2017, 2019); Saudi Film Festival, Dammam (2015) and Dubai International Film Festival (2014). Alfaraj worked as a programmer in both the Saudi Film Festival and the poetry house festival in Dammam.
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Top exhibition of Middle East Now Festival 2019
Mohammad Alfaraj’s first solo exhibition, The Glass Between Us, is an experimentation on sound and image, viewing life through the lens of a child. His new body of work searches for the surprising and the unexpected in daily life, creating a huge mosaic formed by humans and their peers. Presenting works prepared in advance by the artist in Saudi Arabia, alongside new work made with children in Florence during a series of workshops, the exhibition presents a sensory and visual experience that may be simple in form, but depends on a fundamental and important subject around which it tried to create a dialogue.
Middle East Now, MAD Murate Art District and Crossway Foundation Residency in collaboration with PIA Palazzina Indiano Arte della Compagnia Virgilio Sieni.
Mohammad Alfaraj’s first solo exhibition, The Glass Between Us, is an experimentation on sound and image, viewing life through the lens of a child. His new body of work searches for the surprising and the unexpected in daily life, creating a huge mosaic formed by humans and their peers. Presenting works prepared in advance by the artist in Saudi Arabia, alongside new work made with children in Florence during a series of workshops, the exhibition presents a sensory and visual experience that may be simple in form, but depends on a fundamental and important subject around which it tried to create a dialogue.
Middle East Now, MAD Murate Art District and Crossway Foundation Residency in collaboration with PIA Palazzina Indiano Arte della Compagnia Virgilio Sieni.
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Fotografo
Edoardo Delille è nato a Firenze nel 1974. Dopo gli studi in Giurisprudenza termina il corso triennale di Fotografia alla Fondazione Studio Marangoni di Firenze. Nel 2001 si muove a Milano dove inizia a collaborare con fotografi di moda e pubblicità. Dopo pochi anni inizia a scattare le prime campagne pubblicitarie e i primi editoriali per la rivista Uomo Vogue. Non abbandona mai la sua passione per il reportage sociale e nel corso degli anni le sue storie appaiono sulle più importanti riviste di settore (Sunday Times, Wired Uk, Geo Francia, Stern, Le Monde, Marie Claire USA, Neon, IoDonna Corriere, D Repubblica, Sportweek). Lavora da molti anni sul concetto di confine in quasi tutti i paesi del Medio Oriente dove ha vissuto per lunghi periodi, alternando l’attività di storytelling con quella di ritrattista su assignment per riviste internazionali. Lavora per grandi aziende private e pubbliche (Enel, Camera di Commercio di Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Edoardo Delille è nato a Firenze nel 1974. Dopo gli studi in Giurisprudenza termina il corso triennale di Fotografia alla Fondazione Studio Marangoni di Firenze. Nel 2001 si muove a Milano dove inizia a collaborare con fotografi di moda e pubblicità. Dopo pochi anni inizia a scattare le prime campagne pubblicitarie e i primi editoriali per la rivista Uomo Vogue. Non abbandona mai la sua passione per il reportage sociale e nel corso degli anni le sue storie appaiono sulle più importanti riviste di settore (Sunday Times, Wired Uk, Geo Francia, Stern, Le Monde, Marie Claire USA, Neon, IoDonna Corriere, D Repubblica, Sportweek). Lavora da molti anni sul concetto di confine in quasi tutti i paesi del Medio Oriente dove ha vissuto per lunghi periodi, alternando l’attività di storytelling con quella di ritrattista su assignment per riviste internazionali. Lavora per grandi aziende private e pubbliche (Enel, Camera di Commercio di Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) realizzando corporate e progetti fotografici dedicati. Membro del collettivo di fotografi Riverboom, negli ultimi anni usa diversi mezzi espressivi (video, stop-motion, uso di droni, collage) per raccontare le sue storie sempre impegnate da un fine sociale. Le foto dei suoi progetti sono state esposte in numerose mostre internazionali e fanno parte di collezioni private.
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Fotografo
Nato in Olanda da padre canadese e madre olandese, Paolo Woods cresce in Italia e vive a Parigi e a Haiti. Sfruttando la fotografia come strumento d’investigazione, si dedica a progetti di lunga durata dai quali nasce ogni volta una mostra, un libro e una serie di pubblicazioni nella stampa internazionale. Dopo un’indagine sul mondo del petrolio e un’inchiesta sulle guerre americane in Afghanistan e Iraq, si è interessato alla conquista cinese dell’Africa, esperienza da cui è nato CHINAFRICA, libro co-firmato con il giornalista Serge Michel e tradotto in undici lingue. Nel 2010 ha completato il progetto Walk on my Eyes, un ritratto intimo della società iraniana. Tra il 2010 e il 2014 Woods ha vissuto ad Haiti, esperienza che ha portato sia la pubblicazione (2013) di STATE e PEPE che la mostra prodotta dal Musée de l’Elysée di Losanna. Ha esposto in Francia, Italia, Stati Uniti, China, Spagna, Germania, Austria e Olanda, e i suoi lavori sono conservati in molte collezio
Nato in Olanda da padre canadese e madre olandese, Paolo Woods cresce in Italia e vive a Parigi e a Haiti. Sfruttando la fotografia come strumento d’investigazione, si dedica a progetti di lunga durata dai quali nasce ogni volta una mostra, un libro e una serie di pubblicazioni nella stampa internazionale. Dopo un’indagine sul mondo del petrolio e un’inchiesta sulle guerre americane in Afghanistan e Iraq, si è interessato alla conquista cinese dell’Africa, esperienza da cui è nato CHINAFRICA, libro co-firmato con il giornalista Serge Michel e tradotto in undici lingue. Nel 2010 ha completato il progetto Walk on my Eyes, un ritratto intimo della società iraniana. Tra il 2010 e il 2014 Woods ha vissuto ad Haiti, esperienza che ha portato sia la pubblicazione (2013) di STATE e PEPE che la mostra prodotta dal Musée de l’Elysée di Losanna. Ha esposto in Francia, Italia, Stati Uniti, China, Spagna, Germania, Austria e Olanda, e i suoi lavori sono conservati in molte collezioni pubbliche e private. Ha ricevuto vari premi fra cui due World Press Photo Awards.
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Fotografo
Giuseppe Toscano è nato a Catania nel 1976. Formatosi presso la Fondazione Studio Marangoni di Firenze, dal 2003 lavora per la stessa scuola come insegnante di fotografia, organizzatore e coordinatore delle attività didattiche.
Giuseppe Toscano è nato a Catania nel 1976. Formatosi presso la Fondazione Studio Marangoni di Firenze, dal 2003 lavora per la stessa scuola come insegnante di fotografia, organizzatore e coordinatore delle attività didattiche.
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Fotografo
Martino Marangoni si è formato presso il Pratt Institute di New York, dal 1977 al 1993 è stato docente di fotografia dello Studio Arts Center International di Firenze. Nel 1991 ha istituito la Fondazione Studio Marangoni: Iniziative di Fotografia Contemporanea, di cui è presidente. Da quella data, Marangoni affianca la sua ricerca personale alla promozione della cultura fotografica a livello internazionale attraverso attività didattiche ed espositive e l’assegnazione di premi.
Martino Marangoni si è formato presso il Pratt Institute di New York, dal 1977 al 1993 è stato docente di fotografia dello Studio Arts Center International di Firenze. Nel 1991 ha istituito la Fondazione Studio Marangoni: Iniziative di Fotografia Contemporanea, di cui è presidente. Da quella data, Marangoni affianca la sua ricerca personale alla promozione della cultura fotografica a livello internazionale attraverso attività didattiche ed espositive e l’assegnazione di premi.
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Fotografo
Davide Virdis, Sassari 1962, vive a Firenze. Si è laureato in architettura. Lavora professionalmente come fotografo di architettura e territorio, realizzando campagne di analisi ed interpretazione dello spazio e delle sue relazioni con le attività umane. Dal 1998 conduce, per conto dell’Amministrazione Provinciale di Sassari, una ricerca finalizzata alla creazione di un archivio fotografico sul paesaggio contemporaneo del nord Sardegna.
Davide Virdis, Sassari 1962, vive a Firenze. Si è laureato in architettura. Lavora professionalmente come fotografo di architettura e territorio, realizzando campagne di analisi ed interpretazione dello spazio e delle sue relazioni con le attività umane. Dal 1998 conduce, per conto dell’Amministrazione Provinciale di Sassari, una ricerca finalizzata alla creazione di un archivio fotografico sul paesaggio contemporaneo del nord Sardegna.
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Progetto RIVA
Nell’autunno 2017 i fotografi Davide Virdis, Martino Marangoni e Giuseppe Toscano hanno elaborato un progetto originale per San Francesco, Comune di Pelago, e per Pontassieve. Il tema principale di questo lavoro era il rapporto tra il fiume Sieve e la comunità. Questo gruppo di ricerca ha prodotto un lavoro originale sul territorio tra Pelago e Pontassieve presentato durante la festa del patrono a Pelago-Pontassieve il 29 settembre 2018, in una esposizione pubblica delle fotografie prodotte. L’esposizione nello spazio pubblico, sui pannelli di affissione che permeano la dimensione urbana, viene proposta dunque in una dimensione di immediata e spontanea accessibilità. I tre autori hanno inoltre condotto un workshop sul campo con quattro giovani fotografe.
Nell’autunno 2017 i fotografi Davide Virdis, Martino Marangoni e Giuseppe Toscano hanno elaborato un progetto originale per San Francesco, Comune di Pelago, e per Pontassieve. Il tema principale di questo lavoro era il rapporto tra il fiume Sieve e la comunità. Questo gruppo di ricerca ha prodotto un lavoro originale sul territorio tra Pelago e Pontassieve presentato durante la festa del patrono a Pelago-Pontassieve il 29 settembre 2018, in una esposizione pubblica delle fotografie prodotte. L’esposizione nello spazio pubblico, sui pannelli di affissione che permeano la dimensione urbana, viene proposta dunque in una dimensione di immediata e spontanea accessibilità. I tre autori hanno inoltre condotto un workshop sul campo con quattro giovani fotografe.
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Progetto RIVA
Nel 2018 i fotografi Paolo Woods ed Edoardo Delille sono stati inviati a partecipare al Progetto RIVA con un workshop dedicato a giovani fotografi sul rapporto fiume e comunità, incentrato sul territorio di Pelago e Pontassieve, a cui hanno dedicato poi anche una produzione artistica inedita, che verrà esposta in occasione della grande mostra dedicata alla triennale del Progetto RIVA.
Nel 2018 i fotografi Paolo Woods ed Edoardo Delille sono stati inviati a partecipare al Progetto RIVA con un workshop dedicato a giovani fotografi sul rapporto fiume e comunità, incentrato sul territorio di Pelago e Pontassieve, a cui hanno dedicato poi anche una produzione artistica inedita, che verrà esposta in occasione della grande mostra dedicata alla triennale del Progetto RIVA.
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Artista visiva
Lisa Mara Batacchi si forma al Polimoda di Firenze con una lurea in fashion design lavorando in seguito per vari marchi di alta moda, in particolare per Vivienne Westwood a Londra. Successivamente consegue una laurea in Arti Visive presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. Le sue opere sono state esposte in numerose mostre personali e collettive, fra cui ricordiamo: 2°Something Else Cairo Biennale, Murate Art District (personale) a Firenze, Manifesta12 evento collaterale a Palermo, Art & Globalization Pavillion durante la 57a Biennale di Venezia, Dust space gallery a Milano, 4°Land Art Mongolia Biennale a Ulan Bator, Textile Arts Center a New York, Villa Ada a Roma, Clark House Initiative (personale) a Bombay, Villa Pacchiani a Pisa, riss (e) Zentrum (personale) a Varese, Mac, n a Pistoia. È vincitrice, tra gli altri, del premio italiano Movin’up per giovani artisti italiani all’estero. Negli ultimi anni ha tenuto laboratori e collaborato a progetti educativ
Lisa Mara Batacchi si forma al Polimoda di Firenze con una lurea in fashion design lavorando in seguito per vari marchi di alta moda, in particolare per Vivienne Westwood a Londra. Successivamente consegue una laurea in Arti Visive presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. Le sue opere sono state esposte in numerose mostre personali e collettive, fra cui ricordiamo: 2°Something Else Cairo Biennale, Murate Art District (personale) a Firenze, Manifesta12 evento collaterale a Palermo, Art & Globalization Pavillion durante la 57a Biennale di Venezia, Dust space gallery a Milano, 4°Land Art Mongolia Biennale a Ulan Bator, Textile Arts Center a New York, Villa Ada a Roma, Clark House Initiative (personale) a Bombay, Villa Pacchiani a Pisa, riss (e) Zentrum (personale) a Varese, Mac, n a Pistoia. È vincitrice, tra gli altri, del premio italiano Movin’up per giovani artisti italiani all’estero. Negli ultimi anni ha tenuto laboratori e collaborato a progetti educativi con Palazzo Strozzi a Firenze, con ACAF Foundation a Shanghai, con Siena Art Institute, con Lottozero a Prato.
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Fotografa
Alisa Martynova (Orenburg, 1994) Nel 2019 si diploma nel programma triennale di fotografia professionale presso la Fondazione Studio Marangoni a Firenze. Durante i suoi studi è stata assistente per il collettivo fotografico Riverboom. Nel 2018 presenta il suo lavoro a Leica Story, nel 2019 vince la categoria fotografia del Premio Combat Prize, è seconda classificata del Premio Canon Giovani Fotografi, proietta il suo lavoro alla serata di apertura di Les Rencontres d’Arles e viene selezionata tra i finalisti del Photolux Award 2019 e del 2021 Photo Contest, categoria Portraits, di World Press Photo. È membro dell’agenzia fotografica Parallelo Zero.
Alisa Martynova (Orenburg, 1994) Nel 2019 si diploma nel programma triennale di fotografia professionale presso la Fondazione Studio Marangoni a Firenze. Durante i suoi studi è stata assistente per il collettivo fotografico Riverboom. Nel 2018 presenta il suo lavoro a Leica Story, nel 2019 vince la categoria fotografia del Premio Combat Prize, è seconda classificata del Premio Canon Giovani Fotografi, proietta il suo lavoro alla serata di apertura di Les Rencontres d’Arles e viene selezionata tra i finalisti del Photolux Award 2019 e del 2021 Photo Contest, categoria Portraits, di World Press Photo. È membro dell’agenzia fotografica Parallelo Zero.
Ciclo Global Identities
Arnas Anskaitis, Ignas Krunglevičius, Andrej Polukord, Ieva Rojūtė curated by Matteo Innocenti in collaboration with Adrius Pocius, Alesia and Yuliya Savitskaya As Second episode of The GLOBAL IDENTITIES cicle, A certain identity is a project that brings together artists of different nationalities to express themselves about identity issues. The first exhibition of the project, presents the young Lithuanian artists Arnas Anskaitis, Ignas Krunglevičius, Andrej Polukord, Ieva Rojūtė. The certain , as an integral part of the title, in Italian “certa”, takes on a double meaning: as an adjective it is synonymous with certainty, the identity which we can undoubtedly recognize, as an alternative it is also an indefinite adjective, without quality or quantity, indicating an identity that is possible among many others. Four artists of a particular nationality are chosen by the curator of the project in collaboration with the museums or the Fine Arts Academy of the respective c
Arnas Anskaitis, Ignas Krunglevičius, Andrej Polukord, Ieva Rojūtė curated by Matteo Innocenti in collaboration with Adrius Pocius, Alesia and Yuliya Savitskaya As Second episode of The GLOBAL IDENTITIES cicle, A certain identity is a project that brings together artists of different nationalities to express themselves about identity issues. The first exhibition of the project, presents the young Lithuanian artists Arnas Anskaitis, Ignas Krunglevičius, Andrej Polukord, Ieva Rojūtė. The certain , as an integral part of the title, in Italian “certa”, takes on a double meaning: as an adjective it is synonymous with certainty, the identity which we can undoubtedly recognize, as an alternative it is also an indefinite adjective, without quality or quantity, indicating an identity that is possible among many others. Four artists of a particular nationality are chosen by the curator of the project in collaboration with the museums or the Fine Arts Academy of the respective countries to “represent”, according to the particular inclination of their research and culture of origin, the factor of identity through such exhibition. The history and geographic location of Lithuania makes it significant both for the question of identity and for that of the borders and relations within the continent. Since the Republic of Lithuania, like the other Baltic countries, has built itself in a dual movement of independence and annexation, between Russia and Europe – where is been a member since 2004 -. 2018 also marks the centenary of the nation’s independence, which took place in February 1918 and The constitution of the Republic. Vernissage e artists talk: 5 aprile ore 17.30. With the collaboration of Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea – Mus.e and with TUM associazione culturale (Italia/Italy), Fondazione per lo sviluppo della cultura dell’istruzione della persona (Bielorussia/Belarus), Vilnius Pataphysic Institute (Lituania/Lithuania). Con il patrocinio dell’Ambasciata della Repubblica di Lituana nella Repubblica Italiana e del Consolato della Repubblica Lituana di Firenze.
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Photographer
Alice De Almeida Machado Di origini portoghesi, ma nata e cresciuta a Firenze. Dopo gli studi classici che l’hanno coinvolta in mondi sconosciuti, considerati antichi e ormai defunti, ha intrapreso un percorso del tutto diverso dedicandosi alla grafica e alla comunicazione visiva presso l’ISIA di Urbino. La fotografia è stata una scoperta fatta su una spiaggia nel Nord del Portogallo. Ritiene che l’aspetto più affascinante della fotografia sia la luce, da utilizzare per delineare confini e scoprire dettagli nascosti.
Alice De Almeida Machado Di origini portoghesi, ma nata e cresciuta a Firenze. Dopo gli studi classici che l’hanno coinvolta in mondi sconosciuti, considerati antichi e ormai defunti, ha intrapreso un percorso del tutto diverso dedicandosi alla grafica e alla comunicazione visiva presso l’ISIA di Urbino. La fotografia è stata una scoperta fatta su una spiaggia nel Nord del Portogallo. Ritiene che l’aspetto più affascinante della fotografia sia la luce, da utilizzare per delineare confini e scoprire dettagli nascosti.
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Fotografa
Fotografa Freelance Laureata in Fotografia presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna 110/110 e Lode
Corsi e formazione
Miglianti Studio (GR)
Istituto Marangoni di Firenze
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
UPV Universidad Politecnica Valencia
Cristina Nuñez studio
MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI sec., Roma
Principali Esperienze Lavorative:
L’Immagine Ritrovata, Cineteca di Bologna, restauro filmico digitale, Bologna;
Galleria Continua, desk, accoglienza visitatori, allestimento, San Gimignano (SI);
Photolux Festival, Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Lucca;
Grofest, festival della fotografia, Grosseto;
The Self Portrait Experience, Cristina Nuñez studio, Chiasso, Svizzera Italiana;
Workshops
Antoine D’Agata
Moira Ricci
Cristina Nuñez
Joan Fontcuberta e Cristina De Middel
Luca Andreoni
Fotografa Freelance Laureata in Fotografia presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna 110/110 e Lode
Corsi e formazione
Miglianti Studio (GR)
Istituto Marangoni di Firenze
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
UPV Universidad Politecnica Valencia
Cristina Nuñez studio
MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI sec., Roma
Principali Esperienze Lavorative:
L’Immagine Ritrovata, Cineteca di Bologna, restauro filmico digitale, Bologna;
Galleria Continua, desk, accoglienza visitatori, allestimento, San Gimignano (SI);
Photolux Festival, Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Lucca;
Grofest, festival della fotografia, Grosseto;
The Self Portrait Experience, Cristina Nuñez studio, Chiasso, Svizzera Italiana;
Workshops
Antoine D’Agata
Moira Ricci
Cristina Nuñez
Joan Fontcuberta e Cristina De Middel
Luca Andreoni
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Promoted by the MUS.E Association under the artistic direction of Valentina Gensini
In 2017, RIVA launched a series of site-specific installations, workshops, exhibitions, and encounters that enjoyed the active participation of performers, visual artists, photographers, and sound artists invited to spend a period of residency in Tuscany with the goal of elaborating on new projects around the theme of the river. For the first time, the RIVA Project did not only touch on Florence but was extended to three other Tuscan towns crossed by the Arno: Pontassieve, Pelago, and Montelupo Fiorentino. Beginning with a reflection on the environmental and cultural heritage represented by the river and its bonds with the community and the territory, the artists involved in the Project (Davide Virdis, Katrinem, Adrian Paci, Radio Papesse, Studio ++) worked in these three towns collaborating with the local Councils and the communities to give rise to new artistic projects. The project that RIVA 2017 focused on was a performance along the river, followed by an exhibit of Adrian Paci hel
In 2017, RIVA launched a series of site-specific installations, workshops, exhibitions, and encounters that enjoyed the active participation of performers, visual artists, photographers, and sound artists invited to spend a period of residency in Tuscany with the goal of elaborating on new projects around the theme of the river. For the first time, the RIVA Project did not only touch on Florence but was extended to three other Tuscan towns crossed by the Arno: Pontassieve, Pelago, and Montelupo Fiorentino. Beginning with a reflection on the environmental and cultural heritage represented by the river and its bonds with the community and the territory, the artists involved in the Project (Davide Virdis, Katrinem, Adrian Paci, Radio Papesse, Studio ++) worked in these three towns collaborating with the local Councils and the communities to give rise to new artistic projects. The project that RIVA 2017 focused on was a performance along the river, followed by an exhibit of Adrian Paci held in Florence and Pelago with the contribution of Museo Novecento and MAD Murate Art District, which displayed works by Adrian Paci associated with the theme of water as a metaphor of flow, movement, and migration. Berlin artist Katrinem was hosted in Montelupo Fiorentino for her residency under the curatorship of Tempo Reale, during which she performed and recorded her personal crossing of and ‘listening’ to the soundscape.
Progetto RIVA
Federica Gonnelli (Florence, 1981) attended the Liceo Artistico and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. She lives and works on the border between Florence and Prato, where since June 2011 she opens “InCUBOAzione”. Boundary that characterizes her path materially and conceptually, implementing a research at the limit between the disciplines of visual arts. Every veil of organza or double exposure photography are decisive elements that contribute to the meaning of the work, imposing to the observers a momentum to cross the border. Since 2001 he has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions and competitions. In 2006 he graduated with a thesis entitled “L’Arte & L’Abito”. Since 2007 he has been part of the artistic collective “Arts Factory” for which he has been involved in the design and production of videos, installations and video installations. In 2013 he obtained a specialization in Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages, w
Federica Gonnelli (Florence, 1981) attended the Liceo Artistico and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. She lives and works on the border between Florence and Prato, where since June 2011 she opens “InCUBOAzione”. Boundary that characterizes her path materially and conceptually, implementing a research at the limit between the disciplines of visual arts. Every veil of organza or double exposure photography are decisive elements that contribute to the meaning of the work, imposing to the observers a momentum to cross the border. Since 2001 he has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions and competitions. In 2006 he graduated with a thesis entitled “L’Arte & L’Abito”. Since 2007 he has been part of the artistic collective “Arts Factory” for which he has been involved in the design and production of videos, installations and video installations. In 2013 he obtained a specialization in Visual Arts and New Expressive Languages, with the thesis “Videoinstallations between Body-Space-Time”. Since 2015 he has participated in various artist residencies, a practice that acquires particular importance for his research.
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Fotografo
Gabriele Galimberti (1977) Il suo lavoro consiste nel raccontare storie, attraverso ritratti e racconti brevi, di persone in giro per il mondo, narrandone le peculiarità e le differenze, le cose di cui sono orgogliosi e gli averi di cui si circondano. Si è impegnato nella fotografia documentaria dopo gli inizi come fotografo commerciale e dopo essere entrato a far parte del collettivo artistico Riverboom. Le sue foto sono state esposte in tutto il mondo, come il Festival Images a Vevey, Svizzera, Le Rencontres de la Photographie (Arles) e il V&A Museum di Londra, oltre a essere pubblicate in riviste internazionali come National Geographic, The Sunday Times, Stern, Geo, Le Monde, La Repubblica e Marie Claire.
Gabriele Galimberti (1977) Il suo lavoro consiste nel raccontare storie, attraverso ritratti e racconti brevi, di persone in giro per il mondo, narrandone le peculiarità e le differenze, le cose di cui sono orgogliosi e gli averi di cui si circondano. Si è impegnato nella fotografia documentaria dopo gli inizi come fotografo commerciale e dopo essere entrato a far parte del collettivo artistico Riverboom. Le sue foto sono state esposte in tutto il mondo, come il Festival Images a Vevey, Svizzera, Le Rencontres de la Photographie (Arles) e il V&A Museum di Londra, oltre a essere pubblicate in riviste internazionali come National Geographic, The Sunday Times, Stern, Geo, Le Monde, La Repubblica e Marie Claire.
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Exhibition in collaboration with Korea Film Fest 2017
Straniamento – Seemingly familiar or seemingly unfamiliar
7 Korean contemporary artists are showcased at MAD Murate Art District, Florence, Italy from 30 March to 29 April, 2017, featuring approximately 20 art works including Photography, Video, Performance, Painting, Sculpture. This exhibition was started by two Korean independent curators, Jiyoung LEE(Representative of Platform A) and Kko-kka LEE (former Head of Planning and the academic program for Busan Biennale 2016), who are interested in promoting Korean art abroad, and have worked in collaboration with the director of Florence Korea Film Fest, Riccardo Gelli from Taegukgi, Toscana Korea Association and the Artistic Director of Le Murate and the Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Valentina Gensini. As an extension of the Florence Korea Film Fest 2017 (23 March to 31 March), the exhibition hopes to broaden the understanding and appreciation of Korean culture in Toscana, Italy. Straniamento is an Italian word meaning Defamilarization
Straniamento – Seemingly familiar or seemingly unfamiliar
7 Korean contemporary artists are showcased at MAD Murate Art District, Florence, Italy from 30 March to 29 April, 2017, featuring approximately 20 art works including Photography, Video, Performance, Painting, Sculpture. This exhibition was started by two Korean independent curators, Jiyoung LEE(Representative of Platform A) and Kko-kka LEE (former Head of Planning and the academic program for Busan Biennale 2016), who are interested in promoting Korean art abroad, and have worked in collaboration with the director of Florence Korea Film Fest, Riccardo Gelli from Taegukgi, Toscana Korea Association and the Artistic Director of Le Murate and the Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Valentina Gensini. As an extension of the Florence Korea Film Fest 2017 (23 March to 31 March), the exhibition hopes to broaden the understanding and appreciation of Korean culture in Toscana, Italy. Straniamento is an Italian word meaning Defamilarization which expresses the curators’ intention to promote a dialogue between Italian audiences and unfamiliar Korean contemporary artworks so as to expose and explore shared feelings and common values.
Participating Artists BAE Chanhyo, GUEM Minjeong, HAN Sungpil, KANG Yiyun, KIM Jongku, WON Seoungwon, YEOM Jihye (Alphabetical Order) Curators: LEE Jiyoung, LEE Kko-Kka (Alphabetical Order) Host: Platform A Organizer: Comune di Firenze, Muse and Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Taegukgi (Toscana Korea Association) Sponsor: Arts Council Korea
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Collettivo artistico
Collettivo artistico, fondato nel 2011 da Giorgio Barrera, Andrea Botto e Marco Citron, lavora sull’immagine e sul costume dell’Italia oggi attraverso una nuova forma di racconto che attinge all’immaginariocollettivo, attivandolo e dotandolo di nuovi significati. Un ‘minestrone’ caustico e ironico di immagini e parole, che, partendo dal reale, produce libere narrazioni, incrociando politica, gossip e fatti di cronaca arrivando a nuovi contenuti, secondo criteri ispirati a quello che è stato definito ‘neorealitysmo’
Collettivo artistico, fondato nel 2011 da Giorgio Barrera, Andrea Botto e Marco Citron, lavora sull’immagine e sul costume dell’Italia oggi attraverso una nuova forma di racconto che attinge all’immaginariocollettivo, attivandolo e dotandolo di nuovi significati. Un ‘minestrone’ caustico e ironico di immagini e parole, che, partendo dal reale, produce libere narrazioni, incrociando politica, gossip e fatti di cronaca arrivando a nuovi contenuti, secondo criteri ispirati a quello che è stato definito ‘neorealitysmo’
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Progetto RIVA
Durante i giorni dell’alluvione del ’66, per la prima volta a Firenze si mise in moto spontaneamente un’enorme catena di solidarietà. Ad accorrere furono giovani provenienti da ogni parte del mondo per salvare l’arte italiana: per tutti loro fu coniato il termine ‘angeli del fango’. Fotoromanzo Italiano lavora assemblando e contaminando immagini e materiali vari; per MAD Murate Art District gli artisti hanno costituito un gruppo di lavoro che ha coinvolto studenti o giovani artisti under 35 attivi sul territorio toscano in un workshop di ricerca attorno all’Arno. I partecipanti hanno lavorato come una vera e propria redazione procedendo prima alla stesura e poi alla realizzazione di un fotoromanzo sul fiume.
Durante i giorni dell’alluvione del ’66, per la prima volta a Firenze si mise in moto spontaneamente un’enorme catena di solidarietà. Ad accorrere furono giovani provenienti da ogni parte del mondo per salvare l’arte italiana: per tutti loro fu coniato il termine ‘angeli del fango’. Fotoromanzo Italiano lavora assemblando e contaminando immagini e materiali vari; per MAD Murate Art District gli artisti hanno costituito un gruppo di lavoro che ha coinvolto studenti o giovani artisti under 35 attivi sul territorio toscano in un workshop di ricerca attorno all’Arno. I partecipanti hanno lavorato come una vera e propria redazione procedendo prima alla stesura e poi alla realizzazione di un fotoromanzo sul fiume.
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Promoted by the MUS.E Association under the artistic direction of Valentina Gensini
In 2016, on the occasion of the fiftieth commemoration of the flood of the Arno River, the RIVA Project focused on the city of Florence to raise awareness on good practices and attitudes toward the territory and the environment through art. Besides the participation of three internationally acclaimed photographers – Jay Wolke, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Massimo Vitali – under the curatorship of Studio Marangoni, the project enjoyed the contribution of several artists, including Bernard Fort with Tempo Reale, Radio Papesse, Studio ++, Francesco Pellegrino, Fotoromanzo Italiano, who were commissioned original artistic creations: site-specific installations along the banks of the river, workshops, exhibitions and conferences along the Arno and at MAD Murate Art District. Among the permanent site-specific artworks that can still be visited is the Terzo Giardino (Third Garden), designed by the Studio ++ collective art group: ten thousand square metres over the banks of the river were re
In 2016, on the occasion of the fiftieth commemoration of the flood of the Arno River, the RIVA Project focused on the city of Florence to raise awareness on good practices and attitudes toward the territory and the environment through art. Besides the participation of three internationally acclaimed photographers – Jay Wolke, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, and Massimo Vitali – under the curatorship of Studio Marangoni, the project enjoyed the contribution of several artists, including Bernard Fort with Tempo Reale, Radio Papesse, Studio ++, Francesco Pellegrino, Fotoromanzo Italiano, who were commissioned original artistic creations: site-specific installations along the banks of the river, workshops, exhibitions and conferences along the Arno and at MAD Murate Art District. Among the permanent site-specific artworks that can still be visited is the Terzo Giardino (Third Garden), designed by the Studio ++ collective art group: ten thousand square metres over the banks of the river were returned to the city; a green maze whose name reminds of the metaphor used by landscape designer Gilles Clément, who argued that abandoned vegetation in those “residual places left out of the rational organisation of man” is an extraordinary reserve of biodiversity and evolutionary potential.
Fotografo
Arno Rafael Minkkinen è un fotografo finlandese-americano. Dopo la laurea presso il Wagner College con un BA in letteratura inglese, ricopre l’incarico di copywriting in Madison Avenue. Tra i suoi scritti “Cosa succede dentro la tua mente può accadere all’interno di una macchina fotografica” (per le fotocamere Minolta) e “Jingle Bells” (per J & B Scotch). Dopo questa esperienza la sua attenzione si rivolge in maniera esclusiva alla fotografia. In un workshop con John Benson a Apeiron, Millerton, New York, nel settembre 1971 produce una serie di autoritratti nudi ispirati in parte dal lavoro della compianta Diane Arbus. Pochi anni dopo, studiando con Harry Callahan e Aaron Siskind alla Rhode Island School of Design, consegue l’MFA in fotografia. Nel corso del decennio successivo, intraprende la carriera di insegnante/curatore e di direttore creativo/copywriter. Minkkinen continua nel corso della sua vita a dedicare le sue energie e la ricerca fotografica all’autori
Arno Rafael Minkkinen è un fotografo finlandese-americano. Dopo la laurea presso il Wagner College con un BA in letteratura inglese, ricopre l’incarico di copywriting in Madison Avenue. Tra i suoi scritti “Cosa succede dentro la tua mente può accadere all’interno di una macchina fotografica” (per le fotocamere Minolta) e “Jingle Bells” (per J & B Scotch). Dopo questa esperienza la sua attenzione si rivolge in maniera esclusiva alla fotografia. In un workshop con John Benson a Apeiron, Millerton, New York, nel settembre 1971 produce una serie di autoritratti nudi ispirati in parte dal lavoro della compianta Diane Arbus. Pochi anni dopo, studiando con Harry Callahan e Aaron Siskind alla Rhode Island School of Design, consegue l’MFA in fotografia. Nel corso del decennio successivo, intraprende la carriera di insegnante/curatore e di direttore creativo/copywriter. Minkkinen continua nel corso della sua vita a dedicare le sue energie e la ricerca fotografica all’autoritratto: nello specifico la sua attenzione si rivolge alle immagini non manipolate della figura umana nuda nel paesaggio naturale. Attualmente è docente di Arte presso l’Università del Massachusetts Lowell; ricopre inoltre un incarico come docente presso l’Università di Arte e design di Helsinki e alla facoltà del Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. Ha pubblicato ed esposto in tutto il mondo, i suoi lavori sono presenti nelle collezioni del Museum of Modern Art di New York, nel Museum of Fine Arts di Boston, presso l’Addison Gallery of American Art di Andover, nel Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville di Parigi e Centre Georges Pompidou di Parigi, presso il Musée de l’Elysée di Losanna, nel Center for creative Fotografia in Tucson, al Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography in Giappone e in molti altri musei di calibro internazionale. Arno Rafael Minkkinen è stato insignito nel 1992 della medaglia di prima classe all’Ordine del Leone da parte del Governo Finlandese, e del Premio Finnish State Art in Fotografia nel 2006. Attualmente è membro del Consiglio Nazionale della Society for Photographic Education.
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Fotografo
Jay Wolke vive e lavora a Chicago, Illinois. Personali a lui dedicate sono state organizzate presso l’Art Institute di Chicago, il St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, la California Museum of Photography, e la Galleria Primo Piano di Napoli. Tra le varie collezioni permanenti che espongono sue fotografie vi sono il Museum of Modern Art, New York, il Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, l’Art Institute of Chicago e il Museo di San Francisco di arte moderna. Dal 1981 è docente di fotografia e arte in varie università. Dal 1992-1999 è stato Coordinatore della laurea in Documentary Photography presso l’Istituto di Design (IIT). Nel 1999-2000 è stato responsabile della “Art and Graduate Studies” presso Studio Art Centers International di Firenze. Attualmente è docente di Fotografia presso la Columbia College di Chicago, ha ricoperto anche la carica di presidente del dipartimento di Arte e Design anche nei periodi 2000-2005 e 2008-2014. Wolke ha ricevuto borse di stu
Jay Wolke vive e lavora a Chicago, Illinois. Personali a lui dedicate sono state organizzate presso l’Art Institute di Chicago, il St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, la California Museum of Photography, e la Galleria Primo Piano di Napoli. Tra le varie collezioni permanenti che espongono sue fotografie vi sono il Museum of Modern Art, New York, il Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, l’Art Institute of Chicago e il Museo di San Francisco di arte moderna. Dal 1981 è docente di fotografia e arte in varie università. Dal 1992-1999 è stato Coordinatore della laurea in Documentary Photography presso l’Istituto di Design (IIT). Nel 1999-2000 è stato responsabile della “Art and Graduate Studies” presso Studio Art Centers International di Firenze. Attualmente è docente di Fotografia presso la Columbia College di Chicago, ha ricoperto anche la carica di presidente del dipartimento di Arte e Design anche nei periodi 2000-2005 e 2008-2014. Wolke ha ricevuto borse di studio e premi dalla National Endowment for the Arts, l’Arts Council Illinois, Focus Infinity Fund and the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation. Wolke ha conseguito il suo B.F.A. in Printmaking / Illustrazione presso la Washington University, St. Louis, e un M.S. in Fotografia presso l’Istituto di Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Ha pubblicato alcune monografie come “All Around the House: Photographs of American- Jewish Communal Life” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), “Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway” (Center for American Places, 2004) e “Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno” (Center for American Places, 2011). Le sue fotografie sono apparse in numerose pubblicazioni tra cui il New York Times Magazine, Doubletake, Architectural Record, Newsweek, Fortune, e il Village Voice.
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Fotografo
Nato a Como, Massimo Vitali si trasferisce a Londra dopo il liceo, dove studia fotografia alla London College of Printing. Nei primi anni Sessanta lavora come fotoreporter, collaborando con molte riviste e agenzie in Italia e in Europa. In questo periodo di intenso lavoro incontra Simon Guttmann, fondatore dell’agenzia Report, fondamentale per la sua crescita come “Concerned Photographer”. All’inizio degli anni Ottanta una crescente sfiducia nella convinzione che “la fotografia abbia avuto una capacità assoluta di riprodurre le sfumature della realtà” porta Vitali a intraprendere un cambiamento nella sua carriera. Lavora come direttore della fotografia per la televisione e il cinema, tuttavia, il suo legame con la fotocamera rimane e la fotografia diviene per lui mezzo di ricerca artistica. La sua serie di panorami balneari italiani è iniziata alla luce dei radicali cambiamenti politici in Italia. Vitali osserva con attenzione le realtà italiane dipingendo una “vision
Nato a Como, Massimo Vitali si trasferisce a Londra dopo il liceo, dove studia fotografia alla London College of Printing. Nei primi anni Sessanta lavora come fotoreporter, collaborando con molte riviste e agenzie in Italia e in Europa. In questo periodo di intenso lavoro incontra Simon Guttmann, fondatore dell’agenzia Report, fondamentale per la sua crescita come “Concerned Photographer”. All’inizio degli anni Ottanta una crescente sfiducia nella convinzione che “la fotografia abbia avuto una capacità assoluta di riprodurre le sfumature della realtà” porta Vitali a intraprendere un cambiamento nella sua carriera. Lavora come direttore della fotografia per la televisione e il cinema, tuttavia, il suo legame con la fotocamera rimane e la fotografia diviene per lui mezzo di ricerca artistica. La sua serie di panorami balneari italiani è iniziata alla luce dei radicali cambiamenti politici in Italia. Vitali osserva con attenzione le realtà italiane dipingendo una “visione clinica e compiacente di normalità italiane”. Nel corso degli ultimi 12 anni sviluppa un nuovo approccio per ritrarre il mondo, “illuminando l’apoteosi della Mandria”, esprimendo e commentando attraverso le più intriganti, forme palpabili di arte contemporanea.
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Progetto RIVA
Mostra fotografica di Massimo Vitali, Arno Rafael Minkkinen e Jay Wolke A cura di Fondazione Studio Marangoni
Arno immaginario Collettivo si è configurato come un triplice lavoro fotografico sull’Arno che da settembre a novembre 2016 ha coinvolto fotografi locali, fotografi internazionali e giovani fotografi. Il progetto si sviluppa sul rapporto tra Firenze e il suo elemento naturale più importante, il fiume, e restituisce una ricostruzione collettiva dell’immaginario intorno ad esso, attraverso tre momenti espositivi distinti. La mostra conclusiva ha visto la partecipazione di tre grandi fotografi internazionali. Arno Minkkinen, Massimo Vitali e Jay Wolke hanno interpretato la città di Firenze attraverso la sua spina dorsale, l’Arno, e hanno prodotto una serie di lavori inediti. Focus della ricerca di Arno Minkkinen è il paesaggio antropomorfizzato e il rapporto tra la figura umana e l’elemento dell’acqua. Un sistema combinatorio che tiene insieme a livello visivo le div
Mostra fotografica di Massimo Vitali, Arno Rafael Minkkinen e Jay Wolke A cura di Fondazione Studio Marangoni
Arno immaginario Collettivo si è configurato come un triplice lavoro fotografico sull’Arno che da settembre a novembre 2016 ha coinvolto fotografi locali, fotografi internazionali e giovani fotografi. Il progetto si sviluppa sul rapporto tra Firenze e il suo elemento naturale più importante, il fiume, e restituisce una ricostruzione collettiva dell’immaginario intorno ad esso, attraverso tre momenti espositivi distinti. La mostra conclusiva ha visto la partecipazione di tre grandi fotografi internazionali. Arno Minkkinen, Massimo Vitali e Jay Wolke hanno interpretato la città di Firenze attraverso la sua spina dorsale, l’Arno, e hanno prodotto una serie di lavori inediti. Focus della ricerca di Arno Minkkinen è il paesaggio antropomorfizzato e il rapporto tra la figura umana e l’elemento dell’acqua. Un sistema combinatorio che tiene insieme a livello visivo le diverse anime del fiume è, invece, al centro della produzione di Jay Wolke, mentre Massimo Vitali guarda alla relazione tra i cittadini e il fiume come momento aggregazione.
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