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FOTO&PHOTO 2008
september 27th – november 9th, 2008
The International Biennale of Photography’s great
news is that since this year has involved other cities around Cesano
Maderno: Limbiate, Besana in Brianza e Bovisio Masciago. Such
wonderful sites that will host many esteemed artists and will
contribute spreading the passion for photography between their
citizens and those visitors who will come to find out the last FOTO&PHOTO‘s
proposals. The program is every year more appealing, with the
absolute great classics section and the young discoveries section
with actual themes, historical trails and innovative ideas.
Palazzo Borromeo hosts a Martin Munkacsi’s
retrospective, an absolute master’s exhibition for the first time in
Italy : recognized in the XX century as the most daring artist in
term of experimenting his studies on movement in the field of
fashion. Henri Cartier Bresson quotes him as a point of reference
and a guide towards the poetic of the decisive moment and the
capture of the ethernity in a shot. In the last years a great
retrospective of the artist has been around in the world’s most
famous museums.
In syntony with Munkacsi’s originality is the work of a legendary
name of french photography, Jacques Henri
Lartigue, that will be presented in the same Palazzo
Borromeo’s venue. As an artist he’s considerated as a reflection of
high society at the the beginning of the century and a honored
figure for the sensitivity he could catch the moment giving back an
hymn to life made of dynamism, freshness and lightness. He was much
esteemed as investigator of the possibilities of the photography
medium to freeze the movement.
Villa Mella in Limbiate receives for the first time in Italy another
worldwide known artist: the australian Max
Pam who made the travel photography his way of expressing
art, a storyteller with the camera who narrates us the Tibet’s
religious vibrations, nature and people in form of a “carnet de
voyage” , a place where he travelled a lot. In his narration texts
and images melt together to give expression to the harsh conflict so
actual nowadays.
The Chiesetta di S. Antonio e SS. Angeli Custodi in Cesano Maderno
hosts an exceptional event that will represent a turning point in
the cultural entourage: 60 important institutions divided into 5
continents will open at the same time an exhibition dedicated to the
famous mexican artist Pedro Meyer.
An eccentric project that is possible only thanks to the
contemporary technologies and the net involving the most important
collections of the masters of photographs.
Villa Filippini a Besana in Brianza welcomes the strongest images of
the iraqui project of Franco Pagetti,
a master of the italian reportage. Widely famous abroad and so much
respected he was invited to join the most exclusive photo agency at
this moment: the VII Agency with centre in New York. He is the only
phtographer to be constantly on the iraqui territory since 2003. He
followed the neverending war situation before it has started.The
exhibition presents, under his authorial mark, the heart of the
present conflict : the opposition between scites and sunnites
through amazing portraits in black and white.
Villa Erba Odescalchi Scotti in Bovisio Masciago continues the FOTO&PHOTO’s
tradition which divulge, since the beginning, the italian masters’
work. This year it’s Mario De Biasi’s
turn, unchallanged archetype of those photographers who co-operated
with the illustrated magazines during the golden age of
photojournalism. A man who got across all the continents,
documentating events and personalities, celebrating art and nature,
turning such amazing stories into images for the legendary magazine
Epoca.
The Cinema Teatro Excelsior holds “My name
is Bond, James Bond”, images taken from the archive,
gathered and selected to narrate one of the most long-lived
characters of the history of cinema. A tribute in occasion of the
centenary of the author who invented the mythical James Bond, Ian
Fleming, for the forthcoming opening of the movie. An historical
excursus among main actors, bond girls, cars, technological
inventions and action scenes.
The Agenzia per il turismo e la cultura of Cesano Maderno welcomes
the works of the young artist from Milan,
Giulia Diegoli who, inside the Brianza d’Autore’s
project, presents the result of her on the road adventure, along the
main paths of Brianza through places still in touch with the farm
world.
The collaboration with the prestigious Cervantes Institute in Milan
continues with Matías Costa’s
exhibition. This young but very appreciated Spanish photographer has
investigated the China’s pre-Olympic Games emphasizing the
aspirations and the contradictions of a nation that has just get
over the cultural isolation. This event is part of the ambitious
project “Cinco Miradas Europeas”, that has involved, apart from
Foto&Photo, many festivals in Moscow, London, Salonicco and Lodz.
This year again the Festival Off’s
section offers 5 emerging photographers’ works belonging to a few
Institutes of photography in the region, this edition’s participants
are Nicolò Chiaramonte, Jacopo De Gennaro, Esther Mathis, Isotta
Mitsue Zanoli and Luca Ruberti.
Waiting for the Biennale
FOTO&PHOTO 2008
CELEBRITA’ DIETRO L’OBIETTIVO Celebrities behind the
lens
8th September – 7th October 2007
The exhibition
explores a very peculiar world: the world of celebrities who love
shooting photographs. They are all famous people accustumed to be in
front of the camera. They are men and women who have achieved success
in various fields of art, show business and culture. They are renowned
and beloved, and every single aspect of their public lives has been
scrutinized and “vivisectioned”. But they are also people of a strong
personality who have much more to say from within the multiplicity of
their ego and who share the same passion for photography as an
alternative means of expression: a perfect instrument to follow them
through their life experiences, to witness the relationship they have
with themselves, and with the world, to capture instants or to express
a different side of their creativity. This is why they have decided to
move behind that same camera that has always followed them around and
exhalted their fame.
Writers, singers, actors, film directors, artists, and poets: no one
can resist the lure of photography. This siren song seduces people of
any kind, whatever their lifestyle, their age and their fame is. And
the ambiguity of photography – a means that can satisfy remote,
opposite, and complementary needs - becomes the ideal, accessible and
irresistible communicative language.
Extraordinary names such as Renè Magritte, Jean Cocteau, Constantin
Brancusi, Luchino Visconti, Allen Ginsberg, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and
also Lou Reed, Bryan Adams, Richard Gere, Jeff Bridges, Patti Smith,
Pedro Almodovar, and Bruce Chatwin give us pieces of their world by
the means of a camera.
FOTO&PHOTO 2006
September 23d – November 19th
Foto&Photo photography festival has fully achieved its goal of
becoming an international event throughout the years, not only thanks
to the wide range of exhibitions by famous authors from many different
countries, but also because of its specific intention of drawing
together different partners on a worldwide scale. Its unique quality
is proven by the high recognition of the work on show and by the
presence of a large number of visitors of all kinds, who year after
year fill the streets of Cesano Maderno transforming the town into an
open air gallery.
Opening on September 23d and closing November 19th, this sixth edition
will feature 9 official exhibitions and 9 “Festival Off” emerging
authors, plus a full schedule of side events throughout the two months.
In the antique setting of Palazzo Arese Borromeo the stunning images
of Alberto Garcìa Alix’s “Pura Vida” will be on show in the first
exhibition area of the building, along with Ed Van Der Elsken’s “Long
Live Me!” in the other rooms, while in the annexed church of S.Antonio
e SS. Angeli Custodi visitors will have the chance to admire Eric
Klemm’s “Metamorphosis”. Further along, the porticoes of Palazzo Arese
Jacini will offer the setting for the images of Hans van der Meer’s
“European Fields”. As every year, the rooms of the Public Library will
host a retrospective on the work of an Italian master of photography:
this year it is Mimmo Jodice’s turn, with the exhibition “Teatro
silente”, while in the Palazzina Carcano the images created by
Emmanuel Mathez for the project “Brianza D’Autore” will be on display
for the first time. The headquarters of the association ‘Magister
Ludi’ will show Pierpaolo Mittica’s “Chernobyl. The Hidden Legacy”;
and the common area of the shopping mall ‘L’Orologio’ will be offering
Katharina Mouratidi’s “Other Globalisation” for customers to look at.
All 9 photographers of this year’s “Off” section were selected from
the many artists during the ‘Meeting Place’ reviewing, part of the
prestigious Houston FotoFest, held in March 2006, creating a bond
between the two photographic events. The work of these emerging
artists will be set up in various cafés and restaurants around the
centre of Cesano Maderno, giving this small city a lively atmosphere.
This year’s edition features the following partnerships: the Canadian
Embassy in Italy, the Dutch Embassy in Italy, the Goethe-Institut
Mailand and the Instituto Cervantes.
Foto&Photo is a member of Festival Of Light and PhotoFestivalUnion
FOTO&PHOTO 2005
24 settembre - 20 novembre
Posto che la fotografia continua a mantenere il primato dell’arte che
meglio interpreta il nostro tempo, occasioni come il festival
Foto&Photo si trasformano in un momento supremo di scoperta e
riflessione. Per gli autori presentati e per i temi affrontati anche
la quinta edizione della manifestazione cesanese andrà ad arricchire
le anime in cerca di emozioni.
Inoltre, la storia
del festival di fotografia di Cesano Maderno sta consolidando sul
territorio una cultura dell’immagine che, partendo dalle sedi
espositive istituzionali, passando per i luoghi alternativi delle
mostre del festival off, si espande ormai verso iniziative che si
perpetueranno nel tempo. Il progetto “Brianza d’autore” va ad
aggiungersi alle numerose attività collegate a Foto&Photo, ma con uno
spirito maggiormente rivolto al futuro. Quest’anno infatti verrà
avviata una collezione di immagini volta a documentare l’area della
costituenda Provincia di Monza e Brianza, della quale la Città di
Cesano Maderno farà parte e ne diventerà il “polo della cultura
fotografica”. Foto&Photo incaricherà ogni anno a un autore, sensibile
alla trasformazione dei luoghi e con lo sguardo aperto sull’evoluzione
della società, di realizzare immagini sul territorio che andranno a
costituire un archivio iconografico in progress. Il
risultato verrà esposto nell’edizione successiva del festival.
Il programma delle
mostre si sviluppa come da tradizione su coordinate internazionali per
creare una relazione tra la nostra e le diverse storie della
fotografia. A Palazzo Borromeo, per esempio, nella mostra inedita
Soldati/Soldiers si affronta un tema assai delicato, specialmente
in questo momento storico, quello dell’identità di chi appartiene a un
esercito. E si affronta con testimonianze lontane e opposte tra loro,
portate da fotografi di paesi diversi che hanno documentato guerre
d’ogni genere. Più che di una mostra collettiva si tratta di sei
esposizioni personali, che andranno a comporre un mosaico di sguardi:
specchio di vita, scelte e percorsi. Una riflessione sull’essere umano
che c’è dentro la divisa e si trova per ragioni diverse a combattere,
uccidere, morire. Farà da contraltare a questa galleria di ritratti
una mostra del fotoreporter di guerra per eccellenza:
James
Nachtwey con alcune immagini dall’11 settembre alla guerra in Irak
e un video che ripercorre tutta la carriera di colui che è tuttora
considerato il miglior narratore dei conflitti mondiali. Come da
consuetudine in Biblioteca troverà spazio un maestro italiano: quest’anno
Gabriele Basilico. Al Teatro Excelsior una tematica
cinematografica: quest’anno Marilyn Monroe fotografata dal grande
Douglas Kirkland in una notte tutta speciale. Alla Magister Ludi
un nuovo contatto con terre lontane: quest’anno il popolo degli Inuit
fotografato negli anni da Eugenio Manghi. A Palazzo Arese
Jacini un omaggio all’arte della fotografia: quest’anno gli intriganti
dittici dello spagnolo Rafael Navarro. Mentre nella Palazzina
Quattrocentesca una nota di allegria con le immagini della collezione
Voller Ernst che racconta lo humor, spesso involontario, del
nostro quotidiano. Nella chiesetta presso Palazzo Borromeo troveranno
spazio le monumentali immagini di Chris Jordan che scavano
nella società del consumo, attraverso la documentazione dei nostri
rifiuti da smaltire.
Il
Festival Off darà di nuovo respiro alle tendenze della fotografia
attraverso le 8 mostre di fotografi emergenti. I partecipanti a questa
edizione sono: Gianluca Bucci, Carolina Donzelli, Giorgio Ghisolfi,
Alan Maglio e Gabriele Pesci, Sirio Magnabosco, Agnese Micheluzzi,
Attilio Tripodi e Ilaria Turba.
FOTO&PHOTO 2004
25th September - 21st November
Since its first edition in 2000, Foto&Photo Festival has grown and
confirmed itself as an international meeting-point for photography:
this year, more than ever, the festival has done a big step
further in this direction.
The official section starts with two important authors hosted in
Palazzo Arese Borromeo, the main venue. Born in two different
generations, the well-known American artist Duane Michals and the
Spanish Chema Madoz are in some way similar in their humour and
wit. Both of them choose to make pictures far away from the
“decisive moment” principle, re-creating reality using subtle
irony and great imagination.
The series of exhibition of famous Italian masters continues at
the Biblioteca Civica with Ferdinando Scianna and two of his main
works on Sicily.
The Magister Ludi venue hosts a touching story told by Paula
Luttringer, a woman that was personally involved in the
Argentinian tragedy of desaparecidos.
Cinema Excelsior shows Pedro Almodóvar’s pictures taken during the
shooting of Hable con Ella, a sort of personal diary of the
director.
With this edition of Foto&Photo a new venue opens to photography,
the little church of S. Antonio part of Palazzo Arese Borromeo: it
hosts the Italian photographer Maurizio Galimberti and his travel
throughout Italy with Polaroid pictures.
In Palazzo Arese Jacini the Swiss artist Anna Halm Schudel shows,
in her first Italian exhibition, some amazing images of flower
details.
Ferdinando Moleres is protagonist at Palazzina Carcano, another
new venue, with his work about child labour in the world: this
theme is also discussed in a conference organized by UNICEF.
The parallel events’ program is particularly rich this year: an
educational laboratory about photography for children; the third
edition of a series of conferences about Photograph Collecting; an
evening dedicated to Almodovar and Spain; the projection of a
documentary movie, Quelli di Bagheria, by Ferdinando Scianna and
Paolo Jannuzzi; a meeting with the photographer Maurizio
Galimberti and an evening with Giancarlo Maiocchi on digital
photography; an encounter with the curators of the website Images
against War.
In the Festival Off section, spread all around Cesano in
non-conventional venues such as bars, restaurants and shops, 11
exhibitions of young artists are presented. In 2004 the selected
authors are: Fausto Foddai, Marianna Cappelli, Matteo Lavazza,
Federica Palmarin, Giancarlo Zaninelli, Valerio Panizza, Massimo
Pisati, Alfredo Falvo, Asli Türker, Boris Missirkov e Georgui
Bogdanov and the group La Macelleria dei Perdenti.
FOTO&PHOTO 2003
September - 2nd November 2003
Now in its third year, Foto&Photo Festival continues to grow,
presenting ever-increasing numbers of prestigious exhibitions and
innovative offerings.The unprecedented exhibit
“Le stagioni della fotografia russa”
(The Seasons of Russian Photography) offers an exceptional selection
of images from the rich collection of the Moscow House of Photography.
It includes evanescent nineteenth-century photographs, pictorialism,
constructivism, socialist realism, reportage from the 1950s, romantic
photography from the 1960s and contemporary photography presented
through the best images of Moscow’s most important photo collection.
“Gli Ultimi” (The Last Ones)
shows us the little known cinematographic side of Father David Maria
Turoldo. Elio Ciol, the Friulian
photographer par excellence, was by chance involved in this adventure
when the priest and poet was looking for Friulian images, places and
people to make his film more veracious. The meeting between these two
spirits, similar to one another in certain respects, produced a
masterpiece of Italian cinema and an exhibition of rare poetry and
beauty.
Enzo Pellegrini has developed a
surprisingly refined technique through constantly testing and putting
himself to the test. He has visited the most diverse cities, giving an
account of them in images in which light and color dominate over form
in a language that is completely personal, one that seeks the essence
of those cities. With the exhibit
“Controluce” (Backlighting), Cesano Maderno inaugurated
a new venue, the recently restored Palazzo Arese Jacinti.
In 2003, too, FOTO&PHOTO hosts a famous name in Italian photography,
in a place now reserved for the masters of the lens, the Civic Library.
Following Luigi Ghirri and Mario Giacomelli, it is the turn of
Franco Fontana. Along with his
celebrated Italian landscapes, a selection of his series “Sorpresi
nella luce americana” (Caught in the American Light) is exhibited,
which is also devoted to landscapes but this time to the urban and
human ones in large cities.
“Eternal Light” is the name
of a Harlem gospel choir, a choir that is also a true community,
sharing its music, its faith and its daily life.
Arlene Gottfried began to photograph the choir and
almost inevitably became part of it, using her splendid voice to its
best. The photographs shown are the result of five years of shared
life and convey a lively, intense and intimate image of the choir and
the people who are part of it.
The "Festival Off" venues – bars, restaurants and other non-conventional
spaces that during the festival host exhibits of emerging
photographers – have increased to the number of 10, spreading the
festival also in the near suburbs. “10
vetrine per 10 fotografi” (10 Showcases for 10
Photographers) includes: Umberto Armiraglio, Raffaele Bonuomo,
Salvatore Corso, Alex Fakso, Ico Gasparri, Mattia Insolera, Sara
Munari, Marco Pasini, Roberto Ponti, Matteo Varsi.
The festival is completed by various events; an evening with the
photographers and gospel choir
singer Arlene Gottfried and “Professione Fotografo” (Photography as a
Profession), lectures and projections with
Uliano Lucas and Giorgio Lotti.
FOTO&PHOTO
2002
22nd September – 3rd November 2002
For its second edition, Foto&Photo
amplified its offerings to the public, increasing its
institutional exhibits and opening off-spaces for the presentation
of six new talents in the photographic field. The multiplication
of exhibits and exhibition spaces transformed the entire city into
a large gallery where one could breathe the air of photography at
every street corner.
Palazzo Arese Borromeo hosted two major events, the exhibit
“Europa anni Cinquanta”
(Europe in the 1950s) by Giancolombo,
which revoked the continent’s atmosphere of ferment and optimism
during its post-war renaissance, and "Photo
League, New
York 1936-1951”. At the Library, in the cycle devoted
to the masters of Italian photography, we had
Mario Giacomelli
while
Jonathan Torgovnik displayed his
photographs and met the public at the Magister Ludi Association.
With “La storia in tempo reale”
(History in Real Time), Foto&Photo offered a moment of reflection
on the present which is becoming history before our very eyes,
thanks to the work of large agencies such as
Reuters.
A new Foto&Photo initiative in 2002 was
“6 vetrine per 6 fotografi” (Six Showcases for
Six Photographers) which exhibited in alternative spaces the works
of Daniele Bonfanti, Alessandro Castiglioni, Manuel Dallerba,
Bruno d’Andrea, Mauro Olgiati and Federica Zucchi. This was an
opportunity to peek into the future of photography through the
lens of six emerging artists.
Events were also more numerous in this second edition. They
included Jonathan Torgovnik’s
conference and the “Professione fotografo” (Photography as a
Profession) meetings with Guido Harari
and Romano Cagnoni. In
addition, the subject of Photograph
Collecting returned in a convention organized by Fabio
Amodeo, which involved artists and photographers such as Silvio
Wolf and Ferdinando Scianna, the gallery owner Raffaella Cortese,
Roberto dell’Acqua of Sotheby’s, the historian Giuseppe Pinna and
the restorer Silvia Berselli.
FOTO&PHOTO
2001
22nd September – 4th November 2001
Begun in 2001 to expand the already rich exhibits at Cesano
Maderno, which had already seen the achievement of great shows
such as Sebastiao Salgado and Cuba: 100 Years of Photography at
the Palazzo Arese-Borromeo, Foto&Photo
debuted with four quality proposals that immediately propelled the
Festival into the center of the Italian photographic scene.
Unprecedented for Italy was Franco Pinna’s
show, which reflected Fellini’s universe in a spectacular
arrangement, enriched by precious and rare materials, such as
Fellini’s signed sketches and original film posters.
"Immagini per la Dignità" (Images
for Dignity) brought together pictures taken by 39 internationally
famous news photographers to document the dignity of the human
being, precisely in places where it is often negated. The
explanatory texts were done by 25 non-governmental agencies active
in the places photographed.
Phil Borges, with the
Spiriti Indomiti (Enduring
Spirits), also explored the ‘human landscape’ of the world. This
project had the aim of showing ethnic and cultural diversity so as
to understand it, appreciate it and therefore preserve it. The
exhibit concluded with an Amnesty International meeting.
Il profilo delle nuvole (The
Profile of the Clouds), finally, paid tribute to the work of
Luigi Ghirri.
Alongside its exhibits, Foto & Photo 2001 had meetings, such as
the conference directed by Fabio Amodeo
on Photograph Collecting or
the projection of 3d images by
Claudio Domini, who traced the parabola of this real
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