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June 15 2005, Wednesday,
11am-6pm (continues until September 4 2005, Sunday, 12pm-5pm)
We are grateful
to receive a press release about, “Viewpoints; Italy in Black and
White,” an exhibition curated by photography historian, Antonella Russo
(Leece University), which opens today at the Islington-based Estorick
Collection of Modern Italian Art. The press release introduces us to the
“what and when of the, ‘around 100,’ works on show, ‘The photographs
have been selected from Prelz Oltramonti Collection, an outstanding
private archive of work by the most important modern and contemporary
Italian photographers. Spanning 50 years from the early 1930s to the
beginning of the 1980s, the wide range of powerful and evocative images
includes street scenes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes and art
photographs.’ The release continues, ‘Viewpoints: Italy in Black and
White offers a rare opportunity to admire and explore lesser-known
examples of Italian photography such as the modernist imagery of Antonio
Boggeri, the work of Mario Gabinio, Ugo Mulas, Giorgio Avigdor and Mimo
Jodice, the photograms of Luigi Veronesi and the extraordinary series of
seascapes and landscapes of southern Italy taken by Giuseppe Cavalli –
the mentor of Mario Giacomelli. A number of vintage and contemporary
prints by the latter will be displayed alongside the work of Cavalli in
order to underline the creative tension that existed between these two
great masters.’ Taking a quick biographical look at just one of these
photographers – possibly our favourite, the press release later states,
‘Giorgio Avigdor was born in Turin in 1932 and still lives there and in
New York.
He began taking
photographs in the early 1950s and a good selection of his work in the
exhibition features people caught unawares in the their daily activities, such
as Southerners in Turin, taken in a cafe on the Corso Vittorio in 1958.’ It
shows three seated women, at a table, and man in the foreground, with other
people – including children, standing and mainly facing away from the
photographer, in the midground and background. Details of this and all the other
pictures in the exhibition can be found in the illustrated catalogue, priced
£19.95. All in all, the exhibition sounds as if it is well worth attending!
MENU A: £3.50
B: 271
C: £2.50 (or free, for under 16s & NUS cardholders)
E: (see website)
F: 020 7704 9531
L: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London, N1
N: 020 7704 9522
T: Highbury & Islington (Victoria line/Silverlink Metro)
W:
http://www.estorickcollection.com/
X:
http://www.howtoenjoy.co.uk/countries/italy.htm
http://www.howtoenjoy.info/interests/photographic.htm
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