MILANO | SCALO LAMBRATE FROM 25 MARCH TO 24 APRIL 2022 INAUGURATES THE EXHIBITION Fotografia Italiana Contemporanea GALLERIA INDICE COMES TO LIFE

MILAN | SCLAO LAMBRATE

FROM 25 MARCH TO 24 APRIL 2022

INAUGURATES THE EXHIBITION

Contemporary Italian Photography

COMES TO LIFE

GALLERIA INDICE

The exhibition offers an overview of the new Italian photography, through the works of sixteen artists: Mattia Balsamini, Fabio Barile, Fabrizio Bellomo, Silvia Bigi, Alessandro Calabrese, Marina Caneve, Nicolò Cecchella, Giorgio Di Noto, Rachele Maistrello, Silvia Mariotti, Allegra Martin, Jacopo Rinaldi, Alessandro Sambini, Caterina Erica Shanta, Jacopo Valentini, Emilio Vavarella.

The new digital platform of Galleria Indice (www.galleriaindice.com) aims to promote the research of artists who include photography in their projects.

Curated by Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala

 

From 25 March to 24 April 2022, the Scalo Lambrate space in Milan (Scalo Lambrate, via Saccardo 12)hosts the exhibition Fotografia italiana contemporanea.

 

The exhibition, curated by Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala, organised and promoted by State Of and supported by FINER Finance Explorer and the Italian Institute of Photography, explores the landscape of contemporary images, through the works of sixteen authors: Mattia Balsamini, Fabio Barile, Fabrizio Bellomo, Silvia Bigi, Alessandro Calabrese, Marina Caneve, Nicolò Cecchella, Giorgio Di Noto, Rachele Maistrello, Silvia Mariotti, Allegra Martin, Jacopo Rinaldi, Alessandro Sambini, Caterina Erica Shanta, Jacopo Valentini, Emilio Vavarella.

 

The initiative inaugurates the new digital platform Galleria Indice (www.galleriaindice.com), dedicated to contemporary Italian photography. The project was born as an onlinereality whose purpose is to reveal the new Italian photography through exhibitions, comparisons, conversations, various initiatives, and become the point of reference for this language that is currently undergoing an important transformation.

 

The exhibition features sixteen works, one for each artist, and collects projects that document the fragmentary nature of the Italian creative landscape, ranging from a diary-like relationship with photography, such as in Allegra Martin’s Arcadia, with small-format landscape photographs telling of an intimate association with the image, up to Alessandro Sambini’s work, in which the artists first selected a series of iconic – or at least widely known – images; he then divided, as would do an algorithm, the visual rectangle into different portions, assigning a name to each. .

 

It is within these two poles that the artists of Galleria Indice develop their research. In Mattia Balsamini’s Isoai, the memory of the childhood landscape becomes a receptacle for recurring forms. Fabrizio Bellomo offers an analytical investigation of habitable and inhabited ruins in the village of Ksamil in Albania. Nicolò Cecchella dives into a baroque dimension, testing the potential of the material. Silvia Mariotti follows the viewer in a forest on the edge of informality. Jacopo Rinaldi overlaps, in a single image, the faces of a class of forty-one children, among which appear those of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and of Adolf Hitler.

 

Fabio Barile observes the landscape investigating the concept of threshold and border. With her project Entre chien et loup, Marina Caneve tackles the monumental and imaginative dimension of the mountain. Silvia Bigi filters the memory of the dream through an algorithm, resulting in grayscale, jagged shapes. Alessandro Calabrese carries on his careful ‘metaphotographic’ work by printing on the ‘wrong’ side of the photographic paper, achieving a liquid and unstable image. Giorgio Di Noto, with his project Matrix, subjects some iconic images from the history of photography to the algorithm’s re-encoding. In Stella Maris, Rachele Maistrello modifies the landscape bordering a nursing home to give shape to the imagination and perceptions of the residents living there.

 

Caterina Erica Shanta examines the iconographic fragments left after a climate disaster, intersecting two dramatic moments such as the storm Adrian in 2018 and the 1966 flood of the Arno in Florence. Jacopo Valentini explores the visual culture of the Campania territory of Vesuvius, moulding a metaphysical character between architecture and nature. Emilio Vavarella’s project Double Blind explores the relationship between memory and image, through the testimonies of the inhabitants of Santa Maria di Leuca and their emigration during the fifties.

“We have worked on a heterogeneous proposal to restore a linguistic and thematic breadth – underline Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala. The curatorship has simply conducted a coring on the new Italian photography, without confining the field or raising ideological barriers. The term photography has become often limiting: paradoxically, we want to remain faithful to this category in order to take it to its extreme consequences, and therefore overcome it.”

 

Galleria Indice – continue Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala – aims to gather under one roof the best expression of Italian contemporary photography”.

 

Galleria Indice aims to promote, grow, and convey the research of artists who include photography in their project, without excluding technical and linguistic contaminations.

 

The platform is characterised by an in-depth critical analysis, so as to become a point of reference not only for collectors, but also for an audience made of curators, researchers, professionals or simple enthusiasts.

On the website galleriaindice.com, the artists’ work come with interviews and critical analyses which provide context and an explanation to the various projects selected.

 

Galleria Indice is a Benefit corporation that has committed to donate a percentage of each sale to Associazione Praevenus, which is dedicated to the research and prevention of breast cancer.

STATE OF

After a fruitful season with the high fashion showroom Aretè, State ofleaves the space of Porta Romana to settle in multiple spaces in the city of Milan. The multidisciplinary artistic and cultural platform State of draws inspiration, like its nature and tradition, from the structure that hosts it, exploring the multiple languages of contemporary art, from painting to emerging experimental research, mirroring the study and the training of the two coordinators of the project, Manuela Nobile and Luca Zuccala.

 

The exhibition planning unfolds on these two parallel tracks, offering on display a homogeneous, multidisciplinary miscellany in constant dialogue between the two driving forces. A proposal constantly receiving contaminations, perpetually welcoming external curatorial contributions, that are invited to converse from time to time with the programs and the space, thus guaranteeing a formal and conceptual reading on multiple levels, in constant dialogue with the hosting space.

 

The name State of stems from something broad and suspended, from a fluid and coherent contamination between the mediums. An openness that is emphasised by the logo which takes the form of a space bar on a keyboard, a visual invitation to complete the sentence and to depict the project and the space each time.

 

 

FINER FINANCE EXPLORER

 

Since its creation, FINER Finance Explorer has combined a particular attention to the world of culture and humanities with its commitments in market research in the financial field – driven by the belief that interdisciplinary dialogues are increasingly essential in the study of a sector.

 

Art is part of these dialogues and FINER, also faithful to its vocation as a think tank, intends to explore the many connections and dynamics that have always linked it to the world of finance.

 

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI FOTOGRAFIA

Istituto Italiano di Fotografia (Italian Institute of Photography), a constant in the panorama of professional photographic training for the last 30 years, is a multifunctional school, an innovative and experimental space where photography is experienced as an expressive language, with style and innovation. IIF is a school fit to transfer to its students the sensitivity and techniques necessary to develop their own personal style, capable of capturing reality and conveying its meaning.

 

In addition to a complete and professional training, IIF provides its students with an opportunity for visibility both in the artistic world, by organising exhibitions and events, and in the commercial one, through partnerships with companies and agencies.

 

SCALO LAMBRATE – MILAN (Via Saccardo 12)

 

An urban regeneration project born from the collaboration between Associazione Formidabile and FS Sistemi Urbani, a company of the FS Italiane Group – owner of the asset – with the patronage of Municipo 3 of the Municipality of Milan.

 

The Space was born from the ashes of an early twentieth-century train depot, which had not been used for years and was in a state of absolute decay. Scalo Lambrate has now been completely restored, respecting the principles of environmental sustainability, and made available to the community through a series of activities and services.

 

Sustainability is one of the cornerstones of Scalo Lambrate’s vision: in fact, the space aims to generate a positive impact on the environment through the selection of products and materials, through the reduction of consumption and the elimination of plastic. Furthermore, the furniture and supplies come from waste materials according to the principles of the circular economy.

 

Milan, February 2022

 

Fotografia Italiana Contemporanea

Milan, Scalo Lambrate (Via Saccardo 12)

25 March – 24 April 2022

 

Curated by Andrea Tinterrie Luca Zuccala

 

Open hours:

From Wednesday to Sunday, from 3.30pm to 8pm (Saturday and Sunday from 12pm to 8pm)

 

Opening: Thursday 24 March, from 5 pm to 9 pm

Free admission

The Super green pass is required to access the exhibition.

Website:www.galleriaindice.com

 

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