Exhibition: Piero Martinello – Radicalia

Opening: 8.9.2015 7 pm
The artist will be present.
Duration of the exhibition: 9.9. – 17.10.2015

‘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.

Fools, ravers, criminals, devouts and cloistered nuns: Martinello’s subjects come to life in a series of portraits in which the photographic medium appears at times in its pure form, at others embedded in items of vernacular iconography (passport pictures, holy pictures, mug shots).

Everything comes together in a concept album where the face becomes a prism through which to investigate the human need to undertake extreme and unconventional life paths.

Radicalia was made possible by the LUZ Fellowship that LUZ Photo Agency granted Martinello in November 2012.