At the Merz Foundation, the photo exhibition Only as Children, dedicated to the theme of childhood

Fondazione Merz presents, from Thursday, March 7, 2019 to Sunday, May 19, 2019, Solo da Bambini, an exhibition project curated by Maria Centonze, signed by three strongly connected artistic personalities: a couple, composed of artist Lina Fucà and director Daniele Gaglianone, and their fraternal friend, artist Paolo Leonardo.

The starting point for the composition of the exhibition is the month-long trip to Cuba made by Lina Fucà and Daniele Gaglianone with their children in 2016, commissioned by the Merz Foundation. To the visual reworking, both personal and collective, of this biographical experience are added the influences of the territory to which the three artists belong: the city of Turin with its spaces, the communities that inhabit them and the personal or other people’s experiences related to it.

The common thread that runs through this set of visual narratives is the reflection around the theme of childhood, understood as a condition common to all human beings. A phase of existence in which decisive encounters and experiences are condensed, to which we return through memory.

Only as Children develops along three distinct narratives of each author’s experience, sometimes overlapping each other or weaving alternative paths suggested by the memory of people met along the way.

Different media and languages including painting, installation, photography and video contribute to the restitution of these experiences in their physical and inner form. The selection in the exhibition includes individual productions, works resulting from collaborations between the artists or involving performers, friends, casual acquaintances.

Lina Fucà and Daniele Gaglianone’s journey was part of an AICEC project, supported by the Merz Foundation in collaboration with Brigata Doné as part of the Italian-Cuban friendship projects.

For all information you can call +39 011 19719437 or visit the official website of the Merz Foundation.

Pictured: a photo of Lina Fucà.

Source: communiqué

At the Merz Foundation, the photo exhibition Only as Children, dedicated to the theme of childhood

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