This is an exhibit for those who love the “Real photography”. The one without tricks, without artifice, without filters, without post-production. The one who does not seek the “wow effect” because she believes that the document of reality is always worth more than an interpretation. And “true photography” is the magic formula with which Gianni Berengo Gardin (henceforth GBG), the great photographer who has described Italy in the last seventy years, stamps his own autograph printsnever manipulated.
And this new, extraordinary exhibition could only start from Venice at the Maxxi in Romewith a title that says it all Gianni Berengo Gardin. The eye as a profession (from this weekend until September 18) and which serves as the perfect caption to over 200 photographs between famous images, others little known or completely unpublished which we can now see thanks to the curatorship of Margherita Guccione And Alessandra Mauro (the exhibition is produced by MAXXI in collaboration with Contrasto).
There are shots like this, pure poetry:
Let’s enter the exhibition, introduced by the black and white illustrations of the artist Martina Vandaand we follow (in a path not marked by the classic chronological order, but thematic) this so watchful eye on the world who has been able, in his seventy-year career, to focus on man, his impact (sometimes grandiose, sometimes terrible) on society and nature. Give her very famous series dedicated to the Great Ships to the “stolen” shots of kids playing on the street, only one imperative guided GBG’s research: photography is a document, photography is a mirror of reality. Yet, he can allow himself a peculiar eye: unsettling, ironic.
We said: we start from Venice.
Enjoy each image calmly, because GBG’s shots are a lesson in how to look at the world inside the lens. We see the Serenissima in the fifties, so intimate, whispered, poetic and then that of the 2000s, torn apart by the arrival of the Great Ships (perhaps the cycle of shots that, due to its incredible visual power, made GBG a photography-environmentalist icon).
NonsoloVenice. GBG loved, reciprocated, the Milan of the Sixties and Seventies: on display, among others, the portraits of Ettore Sotsass, Gio Ponti, Ugo Mulas, Dario Fo. How nice to see them all together again. This exhibition is a review of our recent history, a trip to Italy that from the lagoon passes through the Madonnina, through the rice fields of the Vercelli area arrives at Taranto and then in Sicily.
Source: Vanity Fair
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