Ever since the experience of “Viaggio in Italia”, conceived and coordinated by Luigi Ghirri, Gianni Leone and Enzo Velati in 1984, the interpretation of the landscape has represented one of the most interesting and innovative aspects of Italian photography. Over recent years, various generations of artists have used photography to explore changes in the territory and have recoreded the breaking up of the landscape, the proliferation of poorly designed and poor quality architecture, the uncontrolled expansion of the city.

The exhibition “Ereditare il paessagio” (“Inheriting the landscape”), curated by Giovanna Calvenzi and Maddalena D’Alfonso presents work by 14 artists that with care and diligence have studied and recorded changes in the Italian landscape. Seven mentors (Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Giovanni Chiaramente, Guido Guidi, Mimmo Jodice and Massimo Vitali) have each highlighted two younger artists in this way decreeing a kind of metaphoric passage of testimony. Olivo Barbieri has chosen Tancredi Mangano and Maurizio Montagna; Gabriele Basilico: Claudio Gobbi and Claudio Sabatino; Vincenzo Castella: Alessandro Cimmino and Salvatore Porcaro; Giovanni Chiaramonte: Ricardo Francone and Franco Mascolo; Guido Guidi: Enrico Benvenuti and Andrea Pertoldeo; Mimmo Jodice: Marco Trinca Colonel/Cosimo Pichierri and Stefano Snaidero; Massimo Vitali: Marco Campanini and Domingo Milella.

6.4.2007 – 13.5.2007
Ereditare il paesaggio
Museo dell’Ara Pacis
Lungotevere in Augusta, Roma
https://www.fotografiafestival.it