Florence, here's an exhibition of Massimo Pacifico's photos of museum visitors, at the Marino Marini Museum

From January 21 to February 24, 2019, the Marino Marini Museum in Florence will hold the exhibition EFFECT MUSEUM. Instant Intrusions into the Places of Art, a review of photographs by photojournalist Massimo Pacifico.

Selected from the countless photographs that populateMassimo Pacifico’s archive, the shots in the exhibition offer a gaze that “looks at who looks at” the works of art, the visitor who “inhabits” the Museum. As observers, through the privileged lens of Massimo Pacifico, we can thus look undisturbed at the emotions that run through the people who visit museums: laughter and emotion, joy, sometimes expressed in dance steps (the one to which, for example, a young mother and her child indulge in while visiting the Victoria & Albert Museum in London) the boredom and torpor that seem to seize some university students perched on a couch at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt or the visitor intent on sleeping lying down on the seats of a room in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

Massimo Pacifico thus insinuates himself into the lives of visitors he meets on his travels by capturing, sometimes with irony and always with great discretion and sensitivity, their gestures and expressions as they are intent on observing, ignoring or mimicking statues and paintings around them: if in the Glyptoteca in Munich the drama of the monumental classical sculptures seems to be ignored by the man absorbed in reading a book, of a completely different intensity is the involvement of a very young visitor to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, who, at the sight of the painting in which the deceased nun Geertrury Haeck is kneeling in adoration of St. Agnes, reacts with tears of emotion. From the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart, from the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai to the Museums of Modern Art in Barcelona, Leipzig, and Milan, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Pacifico’s shots add visual experience, allowing for a completely original and engaging museum “visit.”

Massimo Pacifico was born in 1951 in Sulmona, Abruzzo, the birthplace of the Latin poet Ovid. After classical studies, he graduated in political science from theUniversity of Florence. A professional photographer and journalist since 1977, he has always directed his lens on the people he came across during his frequent travels around the world.

Author of numerous books and articles, Pacifico has exhibited in numerous international museums and edited magazines such as VERVE (2006/2010) and BOGART (2011); he is currently editor of the online magazine BARNUM. The exhibition is curated by Claudio Di Benedetto. For all information you can call +39 055.219432, email info@museomarinomarini.it or visit www.museomarinomarini.it.

Florence, here's an exhibition of Massimo Pacifico's photos of museum visitors, at the Marino Marini Museum

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