Exhibition

Exhibition: Franziska Gilli, Barbara Bachmann – Whore or Saint — On Being a Woman in Italy

Exhibition: Franziska Gilli, Barbara Bachmann – Whore or Saint — On Being a Woman in Italy

There are few countries in Europe where such deeply entrenched stereotypes of women are as widespread as in Italy. Young women in skimpy costumes and heavy make-up have been lasciviously dancing their way through the evening TV program for the past 65 years or so, and only rare exceptions among them have not had cosmetic surgery. The mother is an icon yet on average a woman is murdered every three days in this land of cavaliers and charmers, most often by her intimate partner.

Exhibition: Jean-Pierre Maurer, Giusi D’Orsi – Così fan tutti. 1974 – 1983

Exhibition: Jean-Pierre Maurer, Giusi D’Orsi – Così fan tutti. 1974 – 1983

Così fan tutti. 1974 – 1983 is a widespread exhibition that presents two unpublished series of portraits from the private archives of Giusi D’Orsi and Jean-Pierre Maurer, which were shot between the seventies and eighties as part of the famous advertising campaign Bevo Jägermeister perché. Over the span of over ten years, the commercial communication of herbal liqueur has published over 1500 portraits of ordinary people with ironic headlines in national periodicals.

Exhibition: Luca Santese, Marco P. Valli – Realpolitik

Exhibition: Luca Santese, Marco P. Valli – Realpolitik

The Realpolitik project was born in the form of fanzines published by Cesura Publishing, the editorial brace of the internationally renowned collective of photojournalists among which Santese is one of the founders and Valli is a member, with the aim of thinking, in an ironic and grotesque way, about the iconography that the Italian political class of the so-called third Republic attributes to itself and feeds daily through images published on social media.

Exhibition: Lisetta Carmi

Exhibition: Lisetta Carmi

Lisetta was born in 1924 in Genoa and she has much in common with that city: its level-headedness, for example, as well as a dry humour, a free spirit, and the marginal position that she continues to adopt although long since an illustrious figure on the contemporary scene. For the exhibition at foto-forum Bozen, five themes were selected that happen by chance to pertain to Carmi’s native city; and they happen also to reveal to us that this photographer left little to chance, when observing reality; rather, her work is the outcome of an exacting and conscious intent.

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