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Fotografia Italiana was founded at the end
of 2002 as an idea of Nicoletta Rusconi, an antique art collector,
who was interested in the most creative and artistic aspects
of photography. She launched the project in the first months
of 2003: the Gallery opened to the public in May of that year,
immediately attracting the interest of artists, collectors,
journalists, critics and of all those that work in this sector.
Guide lines
The main idea of Fotografia Italiana is to
advantage Italian photographers engaged in the field of artistic
research, giving them their appropriate place on the national
and international artistic scene: a simple but ingenious and
winning idea, springing from the awareness that more can be
done for Italian photography from several points of view.
For instance the fundamental choice to present only Italian
authors, who are still at a disadvantage on the art market;
to open the market to collectors, old and new, who will feel
assured in buying a photographic work of art; to allow many
exceptional artists to invest more energies in research, offering
the younger ones the chance to emerge, to consolidate their
position on the market and propose them in an international
context. The offer of even little known works of great Italian
photographers and the launch of less known or young artists
are the guide lines of the new gallery.
Method
The operative method is based on a rigorous
selection of the artistic projects that must answer to certain
inflexible guide lines:
they must develop a serious research, not fortuitous, that
is stimulating in the field of contemporary art – Fotografia
Italiana in fact does not want to be just a photographic gallery,
but an art gallery for artists who use photography as their
means of expression;
the works offered must be made with the maximum level of technical
and productive quality to guarantee supports that do not alter
with the passing of time;
they must be produced in limited editions, normally only a
3-5 copies.
To see the various aspects of the activities
of the gallery in more detail, go to the respective pages
on this site.
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