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 The second edition of the Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea prize has attracted nearly three hundred participants who, through their practice of photography, have given substance to the view that this aesthetic activity is a form of contemporary art. The jury has carried out its long and challenging task very scrupulously in order to select ten artists representing different genres among the many that photography offers today.
Proof of this is provided by the three winners: Roberto Marossi, with his very personal investigation of the human figure and his sense of composition with its echoes of painting and cinema; Nicola Cioni, who constructs a world in miniature where, however, everything, from the sets to the toy soldiers he uses, takes on a film-like appearance; and Roberto Toja, who, in his refined black and white pictures, focuses on abandoned interiors with their subtle fascination.
The strong personalities of the seven runners-up are also very clearly evident. Emanuela Bartolotti encourages visitors to extract from a Plexiglas box photographs representing the elements of a fairy-tale that anyone can compose; Elena Bozza reconstructs the story of a family inductively through the traces it leaves in an abandoned house; Michele Buda, on the other hand, is concerned with the purity of form, creating black and white pictures characterized by geometric minimalism.
Simone Schiesari investigates the portrait, using the faces of minute toy soldiers that unexpectedly become very expressive, while, in his pictures taken in interiors, Claudio Gobbi stresses the beauty and equilibrium of architectural forms. Lastly, Camilla Micheli and Monica Tarocco have highlighted the theme of the figure and its relationship with space, the former by using colour to adapt her subjects to settings where the aspect of disguise plays a major role, the latter by resorting to black and white so as to underline the reference to memory and the past.
The juxtaposition of different forms of expression, aesthetic inquiries and thematic choices is the leitmotif of this exhibition: it will be the visitors who, as they go round the gallery, which has been carefully arranged in order to give the same prominence to all the artists, will be able to develop their own personal interpretation of the type of cultural undertaking that the Galleria Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea is seeking to offer them.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an introductory essay by Roberto Mutti, which will be available at the gallery.
Private view: Monday 15 December, from 6.30 pm until 9 pm.
The exhibition will remain open until 14 January 2009.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, from 3 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea
Corso Venezia 22, 20121 Milan
Tel +39 02 784100 |
