Until June 4th at Palazzo Fruscione, Tempi Moderni presents the great photographic exhibition and the VII edition of Racconti del Contemporaneo.
The great exhibition “SGUARDI. Lelli and Masotti” continues until June 4th, inhabiting the rooms and halls of Palazzo Fruscione (Salerno). Organized by the association TEMPI MODERNI and curated by Silvia Lelli with Tempi Moderni, SGUARDI includes the works resulting from over 40 years of career by Silvia Lelli and Roberto Masotti, the couple – in life and work – of photographers born in Ravenna and adopted in Milan, who have been able to tell the world of performing arts and music through the sensitivity of their gaze.
As the scientific director Alfonso Amendola writes, photographic works that are born for specific occasions or events or happenings but that over time condense into a space of vision that truly has the ability to challenge the horizons of time. A powerful and tireless work, that of Lelli and Masotti, which has given rise to an archive of images so extensive, rich and important that it has induced the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to declare it, in 2018, a "good of historical interest".
The SGUARDI exhibition is divided into three sections: Musiche/Kontakthof-Kontrapunkt/Nucleus which will be displayed on the three floors of Palazzo Fruscione:
Musiche (photographs by Lelli and Masotti). In this section we delve into the archive of Lelli and Masotti which, as Domenico Piraina, director of Palazzo Reale in Milan which hosted the great exhibition in 2019, wrote, is an inexhaustible mine of knowledge and memory that allows us to reconstruct and relive almost half a century of history of theater, music, dance, performing arts, to see thousands of personalities “at work”, to have a precise vision also of the social and cultural changes that have occurred. A section composed of 109 photographs and a video installation entitled Musiche Revisited.
Kontakthof – Kontrapunkt (photographs by Silvia Lelli). The section is composed of 20 photographic works and traces the history of 3 performances in 30 years, of the famous work dedicated to the complexity of male-female relationships by the German choreographer and director Pina Bausch. Leonetta Bentivoglio describes Lelli’s work as follows:
The photos that represent the fruit of Silvia's journey through the three "Kontakthof", defined by an essential and vigorous beauty, never affected or glossy, give us an additional perspective on the substance of that kind of monument to dance theatre that is Pina's show born in '78. The photographer's gaze does not limit itself to recording the moment, but makes us see it through the filter of a sensitivity so to speak "additional".
Nucleus (photographs by Roberto Masotti). The section is a tribute to the work of Roberto Masotti and his long-term relationship, professional and human, with the singer-songwriter from Catania Franco Battiato, who passed away in May 2021. The exhibition is an international preview and consists of 16 shots, which, as Carlo Maria Cella writes, are a journey through time, from the early 70s, when Battiato was formed and established in the world of music, up to 1997 of the great concerts, in which fans of almost three generations, including some not even born when certain songs were written, raised him to the sky of fixed stars
SGUARDI – Musiche / Kontakthof-Kontrapunkt / Nucleus e Racconti del Contemporaneo VII Edizione, are conceived, curated and organized by the Associazione Tempi Moderni and promoted and financed by the Campania Region, the Municipality of Salerno, the Chamber of Commerce of Salerno and private sponsors, with the patronage of the Campania Region, the Municipality of Salerno, the University of Salerno, the Alma Mater Studiorum University- DAMS- of Bologna, the Ebris Foundation and in collaboration with the Teatro Verdi.
The exhibition is in collaboration with Marta Cannoni and Livia Corbò – Photo Op, Milan.
Article published on 20 April 2023 - 11:00
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