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

48 photographys by Guido Guidi and a short story by Vitaliano Trevisan Curated by Antonello Frongia The show is the outcome of a dialogue between the photographer and the writer, who have explored the relationship between the apparent "superficiality" of our everyday landscape and the acts of appropriation made possible by our visual and verbal memory. The series of 48 photographs by Guidi (made in various locations since 1997) is a reprise of a theme that the photographer investigated at the beginning of his career in the 1970s: the domestic space as a realm of light and shadow, the home as the camera obscura of our existence. Guidi's new "voyage around my room" brings him outside, and in fact has the effect to interiorize the surfaces of the landscape by way of a meditation that is both geographical, biographical, and metaphorical. Guidi's work presents the world itself as inherently photographic: an accumulation of materials which are sensitive to action of the light and record the passage of time. His photographs show the many ways in which a ray of light can encounter a wall or the skin of a person; they interrogate the palimpsest of signs left on a pole or in a schoolroom; they evoke the presence of the body in a prison cell. In such common places Guidi reenacts an old tradition of seeing as "clarification": from the transparency of Mies van der Rohe evoked in a photograph of the IIT in Chicago to the sharp lights of Walker Evans; from the "primitives" of the early Italian 15th century to the paintings of Giorgio Morandi. The short story that Vitaliano Trevisan wrote as a response to Guidi's photographs animates the scene with a character who at the same time observes and recalls, and who acts on what he sees and recalls. An interesting aspect of this experiment between photography and literature lies in the possibility to use words and memories to reactivate our visual field. Trevisan shows how Guidi's (and perhaps all) photographs are made to be inhabited and looked at again and again. Vol. I is about photographs which are at the same time windows and mirrors, sensitive surfaces which can only be enlivened by our personal projections. The publication Vol. I is published by Electa/Jarach Gallery. Hardbound, 30x28cm, 96pp., 48 4-color photographs, with a short story by Vitaliano Trevisan and an afterward by Antonello Frongia The authors Guido Guidi (1940) started to photograph in the late sixties; his work has been widely exhibited ever since. His publications include Variants (1995), In Between Cities. An Itinerary through Europe 1993/1996 (2003) and Bunker (2006). Guidi teaches photography at the University Iuav of Venice. Vitaliano Trevisan (1960) is a writer, musician, screenplayer, and actor. He has published, among others, The Fifteen Thousand Steps (2002), Standards vol. I (2002), A Wonderful World (2003), Wordstar(s). Trilogy of Memory (2004), and Shorts (2004). He is the co-writer and the protagonist of Primo amore, a film directed by Matteo Garrone (2003). The gallery Jarach Gallery is a new venue for contemporary photography in Venice. The aim of the gallery is to establish a link between the city and the international scene through a program of exhibitions, events, publications, cultural activities and collaborations with local institutions. In a space of 170 square meters, Jarach Gallery will present solo and group exhibitions, meetings with international artists and curators, book presentations and literary readings. In the virtual space of our website, visitors will have the opportunity to access a variety of visual and textual materials related to the gallery's events and to buy the works of the artists on show.