Passaggi is an exhibition of contemporary Italian photography that introduces new work by seven artists. They are all concerned with the sphere of the visible and the mechanisms of seeing - especially the 'colonization' of people's looks in order to control the act of seeing in our everyday life. Now the wide, redolent space of the Arcate dei Murazzi hosts the works of well-known, widely acknowledged artists next to the works of young emerging artists. The idea is to provide an insight into the most recent trends in photography. Among the exhibited works we find Electricity comes from another planet by Maurizio Vetrugno, one of the leading figures of the young Turin scene and now widely acknowledged on a national level.
The choice of Murazzi, a space that is non traditional but also popular, especially with young people, helps encourage as much involvement as possible from the city, thereby extending the prospective public, who can get to know the most recent trends in contemporary art outside the closed space of museums and institutional spaces.
"Photography, with its uniform surface, showing no clots or accumulations of matter, reflects exclusively and always the absence of the artist or, in the words of Barthes, the death of the author: the photo image always produces silences. [...] All the works selected for Passaggi contribute to formulate and mirror a part of the Italian contemporary photographic culture. They reflect images drawn from the specific photographic vernacular that surrounds us and shapes our unconscious". (Antonella Russo)
Exhibited artists
Francesco Bernardi, Luisa Lambri, Stefania Levi, Paola De Pietri, William Guerrieri, Marco Signorini, Turi Rapisarda
Other venues
Maison de l'Italie of Paris
October 18 - November 5 1996
Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Bellinzona
December 7 1996 - February 2 1997
