Michael Kenna

At Loreto Aprutino, the exhibition “Abruzzo” includes 80 b/w photos by Michael Kenna: a 5,700-km-journey through one of the richest mosaic landscapes in Italy.

The body of work Abruzzo was created by Michael Kenna in 2015 and 2016. During a 5,700 km journey through the landscapes of the four provinces of Abruzzo, Kenna’s photographs have ranged from peaks of 3,000 meters, the highest mountain reliefs of the peninsula, down to the coast of trabocchi, passing through one of the richest mosaic landscapes in Italy.

The exhibition includes more than 80 black and white photographs, arranged in 4 sections: rural landscapes, coastlines, mountains and villages and castles. In the first room of the exhibition there is a presentation of Michael Kenna exploring his place in the historic strand of international artists who have visited and portrayed the landscape of Abruzzo.

Approaching Clouds, Pizzoferrato, Abruzzo, Italy, 2016. Photo © Michael Kenna

Tree and Gran Sasso Mountain, Castilenti, Abruzzo, Italy, 2015. Photo © Michael Kenna

Trabocco Punta Aderci, Study 2, Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, 2016. Photo © Michael Kenna

Stone Pine Tunnel, Pineto, Abruzzo, Italy, 2016. Photo © Michael Kenna

Railway Lines in Snow, Palena, Abruzzo, Italy, 2016. Photo © Michael Kenna

Pine Trees at Dusk, Loreto Aprutino, Abruzzo, Italy, 2016. Photo © Michael Kenna

Eighty-two years after the prints of Dutch artist M.C. Escher, Abruzzo is the first large work of this scale of an internationally acclaimed artist, on the subject of the landscape of Abruzzo. The exhibition features some of the most emotionally charged images of Italy and it is the first time he has dedicated a body of work to one region of the country.

In conjunction with the exhibition a monograph is published, featuring 65 previously unpublished images. The work is curated by Vincenzo de Pompeis, Printed in 2,500 print copies, is published by Nazraeli Press. A Japanese Edition has been published simultaneously by Shuppan-Kyodosha.

8 July – 8 September 2017
Abruzzo. Fotografie di Michael Kenna
Curator: Vincenzo de Pompeis
Palazzo Casamarte, Loreto Aprutino

Michael Kenna

At Loreto Aprutino, the exhibition “Abruzzo” includes 80 b/w photos by Michael Kenna: a 5,700-km-journey through one of the richest mosaic landscapes in Italy.

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