Thirty years later, Paul Monti, the big picture back to Figline Valdarno - Florence - in the shots of Gianni Berengo Gardin. His goal returns the image of an area that combines tradition and modernity, nature, art, culture and daily life in an exhibition to be held from February 27 to Praetorian Palace (opening 15.30) to May 1, with free admission.
Berengo Gardin Gianni is an icon of Italian photography in the world. Ligurian birth, born in 1930, began to work on photography in 1954 and his images will soon earn the pages of "The World" one of the most original and unconventional journalism after World War II. His archive contains 1,350,000 shots, many of these crops in more than 200 photography books, documents that tell the history, aspirations, impulses and frustrations, the many beauties and contradictions, the identity of a people and a entire country. Photographs by Gianni Berengo Gardin are exhibited in major museums and art galleries, such as the MOMA in New York, the National Engraving in Rome, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie and the photo collection in Paris FNAC .
His photographic language is black and white, to get things straight, because "the color always distracted: there are more colors that the image content. Black and white are just pictures of Figline gathered in this exhibition, as are black and white shots of Paolo Monti, Gianni Berengo Gardin teacher. Thirty years have passed between one another, and images of the two great photographers and the amount of change. Gianni Gardin said Berengo Figline today and it does move from his certainties: the beauty of the earth, the millennial history of a village and a people, the vitality of the economy, between old and new crafts, stories of women entrepreneurs and institutions , voluntary and third sector that weave together an effective and original network security social and cultural promotion, artistic and sporting. Tell
short of an Earth to live and was able to resume the "memory wire" with the breath of modernity, and its rhetoric, looks to the future with the knowledge of his past and with the optimism of a contact still strong and alive .
"After 30 years since the shooting of Paul Monti - said the Mayor of Figline, Riccardo Nocentini - our Figline is again immortalized by another great photographer, a kind of natural continuation of that will also allow us to understand how we have changed . In the shots of Gianni Gardin Berengo seen clearly looking for a way to provide dynamic observer Figline image that is not the classic 'postcard', but instead tell 'what are we Figlinesi' bringing out a 'strong identity that passes by, the beautiful scenery of a typical soil of Tuscany and the picturesque views of our Old Town, but also and above all the faces of us Figlinesi. The objective of Berengo Gardin Gianni was then directed to capture the faces of those who live there in Figline always there and those who arrived recently in Figline of who engages in social and sports, who in Figline, through their work, makes known to us from the boundaries of our community. "
The exhibition, organized by the city of Figline Valdarno in collaboration with the Circolo Fotografico Arno, will be open to the public with free admission from 27 February to 1 May to Praetorian Palace (Piazza San Francesco, the old town area) with the following schedule: 9-13 and 15-18.30, which is working holidays.
For more information:
Website: www.comune.figline-valdarno.fi.it
Tel: 055 9153509
