Fratelli d'Italia

From September 13 to October 12, to coincide with the Architecture Biennale, large one-metresquare prints of Matthias Schaller's photographs will be on show at the Fondazione Cini.

For his most recent project, which lasted 3 years, from 2005 to 2008, Matthias Schaller travelled all over Italy, photographing 150 opera houses. “My initial intention was to create a portrait of Italy, not in an empirical way but rather metaphorical,” explains the German artist. The theatres were architecturally similar, also because they were all built around the same time. Gathered under the show’s ironic title “Fratelli d’Italia” (Italian Brothers), the theatres are used as a metaphor to underline the inequalities that have characterised Italy’s cultural, social and political reality from the 19th century until today. From September 13 to October 12, to coincide with the Architecture Biennale, large one-metresquare prints of the photographs will be on show at the Fondazione Cini (www. cini.it), on the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Elena Sommariva

www.matthiasschaller.com

Fratelli d'Italia

From September 13 to October 12, to coincide with the Architecture Biennale, large one-metresquare prints of Matthias Schaller's photographs will be on show at the Fondazione Cini.

Latest on Art

Latest on Domus