Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Curated by Daniele Cavalli, Anita Margiotta, Federica Pirani Giuseppe Cavalli's photographs are based on the pure pleasure of vision and of wandering with one's eyes within the light. This is the pleasure of a vision of the beautiful that the photographer experimented naturally through a specific technical choice: and it could not be otherwise, as Benjamin correctly wrote "in photography the decisive element always remains the photographer's relationship with his technique". Cavalli's choice was that of so-called "higher tonalities", and hence the lighter ones, tending to white. It is in the overflowing light that this photographer looks for his goddess. This was said clearly already in 1950 by Piero Donzelli, one of the best Italian 20th century photographers, in the magazine "Ferrania": "Cavalli has a sense of contemplation and a philosophy of beauty, and few others are capable of transfusing in still lives a fleeting intangibility as he does, as well as understanding the pessimism of the sun dazzling the walls". Seeing pessimism in the "sun dazzling the walls" belonged to Donzelli's soul and he felt distant from perceiving the contradiction in his own words. How can a philosophy of beauty and a vision of "a fleeting intangibility" lead to pessimism? On this point one has the feeling - actually, I would say the certainty - that Catholic Cavalli was in this closer to Ancient Greece's pagan soul. He experienced the joy of seeing, and by seeing, what was beautiful and what was art. And he stated this clearly quoting the de Goncourt brothers: "Apprendre à voir est les plus long apprentissage de tous les artes" [Learning to see is the longest apprenticeship of all arts]. Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi Via di San Pantaleo (Piazza Navona) Roma Italia 06 67108346 www.museodiroma.comune.roma.it OPENING TIME: Tuesday-Sunday, 9 - 19 (tickets are sold until h. 18) closed on Monday TICKETS: EURO 6.20; reduced EURO 3.10 COME ARRIVARE: Bus: n. 30, 40, 46, 62, 64, 70, 81, 87, 116, 492, 571, 628 Tram: largo di Torre Argentina n.8