Exhibition: Vincenzo Pagliuca – Bunker

Opening: 14.2.2023, 7pm
Exhibition: 15.2. – 18.3.2023

OPERA 10 – SBARRAMENTO PASSO MONTE CROCE COMELICO, 2019. © VINCENZO PAGLIUCA, Exhibition at Foto Forum 2023

About 350 bunkers were built before the outbreak of the Second World War along the border between Italy and Austria, on the disputed territory of South Tyrol. A huge system of fortifications was decommissioned by the army in 1993.
Vincenzo Pagliuca explores the educational value of this heritage, rooted in a dramatic chapter of European history, as well as its future potential metamorphoses: from the organic one, which leaves to nature the task of burying the tragedy under the vegetal oblivion of time, to the one sparked from that Promethean will that bends even bunkers to new functions, to new life, to an end that is always and entirely human; from preservation, which reveals architectural elements exalting their beauty as a heroic act, to the bunkers as they are, an image where there is no overpowering of history, just harsh memory and, therefore, reflection.
Steve Bisson

In a preview for Foto Forum Bolzano, the photographer presents a selection of 31 photographs taken in South Tyrol between 2018 and 2021.

OPERA 14 – SBARRAMENTO BOLZANO SUD, 2018. © VINCENZO PAGLIUCA, Exhibition at Foto Forum 2023

OPERA 37 – SBARRAMENTO BOLZANO SUD, 2019. © VINCENZO PAGLIUCA, Exhibition at Foto Forum 2023

OPERA 7 – SBARRAMENTO PASSO MONTE CROCE COMELICO, 2018 © VINCENZO PAGLIUCA, Exhibition at Foto Forum 2023

OPERA 7 – SBARRAMENTO MALLES – GLORENZA, 2018. © VINCENZO PAGLIUCA , Exhibition at Foto Forum 2023

OPERA 1 – SBARRAMENTO ANTERSELVA MEZZAVALLE, 2018. © VINCENZO PAGLIUCA, Exhibition at Foto Forum 2023