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The Great Beauty - Five photographers and the city of Rome

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The Great Beauty - Five photographers and the city of Rome

(March 6, 2017) Every year takes place in Rome the International Photography Festival, which commissions to a different important photographer a project on the city. Among the many who have participated, we selected four Italian photographers: Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Marco Delogu and Paolo Ventura. To them we have added a New York photographer, Leo Rubinfien, who is currently on the assignment and will give us a sample of his work. Each photographer conveyed to the project his signature style and his identity, but we felt that these particular chosen works shared a common sensitivity toward the beauty of the capital of Italy. The exhibition curated by Marco Delogu will be inaugurated on March 16 at the IIC in New York and will be open untile Aprile 13. Olivo Barbieri chooses to fly (Rome 2004 is his first areal work) to have unsettling points of view and never the same, enhanced by the use of selective focus that makes everything look like a little miniature; Gabriele Basilico travels along the Tiber River, one of the main reasons for the birth of the city, photographing the water and the two shores, and focusing mostly on the Isola Tiberina; Marco Delogu chooses the night, without people, cars, voices, artificial lights, and awaits for the full moon to enlighten, as it did thousands of years ago, monuments ancient and recent; Paolo Ventura reconstructs in a study models of his vision of Rome, inventing the journey of a out-of-time zuavo that disappears in the city. Four visions by four different eyes to which the gaze of Leo Rubenfien connects. He began his “Rome Assignment” in 2016 as a prolonged project that originates from the Eternal City into an investigation on the many visions of globalization. Rubenfin gives us a preview of his work, with three photographs released for the first time. (Red)


ABOUT / MARCO DELOGU

Marco Delogu was born in Rome in 1960. His research focuses on portraits of groups of people with common experiences and languages. In recent years his projects have become more focused on nature, in different variations of his attention that shifted from man to his surroundings. He has published over twenty books. He has exhibited in Italy and abroad (French Academy, Villa Medici in Rome, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Warburg Institute in London, Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds, IRCAM, Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Musée de l'Elysee in Lausanne, PhotoMuseum, Moscow; etc.).

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