The album of “Roman Portraits” by Elisabetta Catalano is a kind of metaphor which leaves nobody out – leading figures from Italian politics such as Giulio Andreotti, Bettino Craxi and Massimo D’Alema, intellectuals such as Natalia Ginzburg and Thomas Maldonado; masters of the art of cinema such as Federico Fellini and architects and designers such as Costantino Dardi and Stefano Giovannoni.

Elisabetta Catalano particular favours the artists however, to whom she dedicates a series of black and white pictures. Done simply in a way that immediately captures characters and behaviours including Alighiero Boetti, Gilbert & George, Josef Beuys and Luigi Ontani. L.B.

Until 5.9.2004
Elisabetta Catalano. ‘Action Portrait’
Galleria Minini, via Apollonio 68, Brescia
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