Exhibition

The exhibition Return to Beirut. 1991 – 2011 presents photographs by Gabriele Basilico made in his four trips to Beirut in 1991, 2003, 2008 and 2011

As the title suggests, the aim of this exhibition is not merely to present different approaches and practices within documentary photography related to war, but also to reflect on the intrinsic conflict that image making involves, particularly when coupled with the depiction of suffering and pain.

40 examples from contemporaries document the experience of transience, and are however documents of a sensual dialogue with our reality that is ever more strongly retreating from the immateriality of visual communication.

‘Radical’ is something ‘acting in depth; concerning an issue beginning with its essential principles’, according to Salvatore Battaglia’s definition in the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana. With this as his starting point, photographer Piero Martinello travelled around Italy in search of women and men who – each in their own way and for different reasons – have embraced radical choices and lifestyles.

Kurt Caviezel has been strolling around the networked world via webcams in public and private spaces for fifteen years now, selecting still images from the incessant data stream with a mouse click. Caviezel’s archive today contains more than three million photographs covering all aspects of life. In ‘The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel,’ all series that emerged during those years are put into alphabetical order.

The exhibition at the foto-forum in Bolzano shows some selected photographs from “Anderswo” [“Elsewhere”], a book of photographs that was recently published. The film Der Fotograf vor der Kamera [“The Photographer in Front of the Camera”] by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel documents Erich Lessing’s process of selecting images for just this book project.

The gallery foto-forum presents the solo exhibition “… a volte esco di casa con il cielo sotto braccio” by the artist Camen Mitrotta.

Using historical photographic documents that were discovered in the 1980s in Genoa by the collector Riccardo Sezzi, this exhibition is directed at specialists, researchers and lovers of the forensic sciences, police investigations and crime scenes.

This exhibition launches a new project series at gallery foto-forum that critically engages with the cultural technique of documentary photography. During the course of two years and through multiple stages, outstanding exponents of documentary photography will be asked to exhibit on a whole array of issues.

In his large-format photographs, Giancarlo Lamonaca concerns himself with in-depth research related to space/time situations. In so doing, he superimposes or wipes out photographs, thus creating illusions that take our perception to the very limits of its possibilities.

We will be showing a series on the trail to the highest mountain hut in Europa and a portrait of Elena Runggaldier, ski jumper from Gherdëina. Both works deal with an individual protagonist’s search for tranquillity as well as their striving for physical and mental isolation at a great height.

For about five years, I have been documenting the housing problems of the city of Rome in my photographic work; this has led me to explore the fringe zones and hidden places within the city’s urbanised territory ever more extensively.

(de) Das Künstlerkollektiv Luoghicomuni (Alessandro Calabrese, Simone Mizzotti, Milo Montelli) lenkt sein Augenmerk auf das Teilstück des Gebiets um das sich die Stadt Mailand mit seinen Tentakeln Tag für Tag erweitert, während die Lombardische Ebene langsam verschlungen wird.

In collaboration with the South Tyrol Provincial Archive, Foto Forum is showing the exhibition “Alberto Melloni (1888-1967) Travel Memories in 3D” with historical photos from the 1920s and 1930s captured by the author on his numerous trips. The stereoscopic photographs from South Tyrol, the Alps, Italy and Europe are presented in the form of anaglyphs.

(de) Die Galerie foto-forum präsentiert in der Ausstellung „Transsilvanien“ Arbeiten von Horatiu Sava, die nach über zwanzig Jahre nach der Flucht aus seiner Heimat Rumänien entstanden sind.

(de) Die Galerie foto-forum präsentiert mit Closed Cities das neueste Fotoprojekt des Tiroler Künstlers Gregor Sailer (1980 in Schwaz geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Innsbruck und Vomp). In Closed Cities beschäftigt sich Sailer mit dem Phänomen geschlossener, von der Außenwelt hermetisch abgeriegelter Städte – künstlich geschaffene urbane Zonen, die weitab jeder Zivilisation liegen, von unwirtlichster Natur umgeben sind oder von hohen Zäunen umschlossen werden.

(de) Die Galerie foto-forum zeigt Werke der Mitglieder der Gruppe Rodolfo Namias, die sich den sogenannten Edeldruckverfahren, also dem Fotodruck mit Verfahren aus dem 19. Jahrhundert verschrieben haben. Diese Verfahren sind eine Kunst, die von jedem einzelnen sowohl Leidenschaft, wie auch handwerkliche Fähigkeiten und einen starken Willen zum Experimentieren abverlangt.