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April 2023

foto.sintesi

On December 30, 2019, from 11:30 am to 3:30 pm, on the island of Ventotene, Aniello Barone photographs a geological wall, reading the Earth's history and its stratification of different epochs through it. He notices a shadow, a silhouette, and imagines seeing a constantly evolving human profile that "questions" him. The highlighting of the human shadow becomes nature and cannot be otherwise: Man is Nature! "The gaze rests for a brief moment on a prehuman or perhaps posthuman world. The place

November 2021

Mayflies

After the loss of her mother, the artist experiences the interruption of her own timeline on one end while having to fulfill her own role as a mother to the other end. In that end, motherhood in Dede’s universe is not connected only to warmth or joy but to cold, ice surfaces that need to stand the pressure of an overheated world. ‘Mayflies’ dramatises the creative process of mourning. Through multiple chirographic mutations of

November 2019

ALPS – AOSTA VALLEY

The work of Paolo Pellegrin is part of the exhibition "Montagne of Magnum Photographers", the result of a co-production between Forte di Bard and Magnum Photos Paris. Images concern to Mont Blanc and its glaciers. To take the photos Pellegrin had to go over and over again, looking for those lights that he prefers. "The images that Paolo has drawn from his journey in the mountains, and which he proposes with delicacy but sometimes also with violenc

April 2020

FULL SCALE FALSE SCALE

Four years after 'Statement and Counter-Statement' (2015), Experimental Jetset returns with their second paperback for Roma Publications. Whereas the previous publication had a more overall monographic scope, 'Full Scale False Scale' focuses on a single project: the large, site-specific installation that the studio recently created for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, commissioned to coincide with the museum’s reopening in October 2019. Part reader, part collage, the book forms a subjective archive of research material, just as

April 2020

SCRAPBOOK OF THE SIXTIES

Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono — Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first experimental films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded his daily observations. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, starting in 1958 he

April 2020

WHY EXHIBIT? POSITIONS ON EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHIES

This publication offers a spectrum of views on how the myriad forms of exhibiting photographies can increase our understanding of how images operate today, as well as what they do to us when we interact with them. In the Digital Age, “photography” is best described with adjectives connoting a medium in constant flux: liquid, fluid, flexible, unstable. As such, there is no primary format for displaying photographs. By drawing upon the diverse perspectives of a g