Venez découvrir l'exposition collective de l'Agence coopérative Picturetank !
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Une exposition collaborative
MICHEL POIVERT, Critique :
Michel Poivert est historien d’art spécialiste de la photographie, il enseigne à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et à l’École du Louvre, il est par ailleurs directeur de la rédaction de la revue Étude photographiques, critique et commissaire d’exposition « La liberté qui m’a été donnée de parcourir l’ensemble du corpus de la coopérative de photographes PICTURETANK a rapidement ressemblé à un défi : comment passer du CORPUS à l’OPUS, comment construir...
When the idea came up of organizing a new exhibition about contemporary Italian photography, our starting point was the 2001 exhibition Tempi in scena : Moments de la photographie contemporaine italienne. This exhibition brought together both Italian and foreign artists who all had all trained at the "Fondazione Studio Marangoni" photography school in Florence where they studied within the specific framework of the Corso Triennale.
The challenge was a difficult one : it was necessary to avoid a "photocopy" exhibition, by merely reusing the same artists for example, and a new thematic thread had to be found.
While for the first exhibition we showed aspects of new artistic sensibilities of a generation of artists marked by the change of paradigm of contemporary photography in Italy, exploring inti...