Gianni Berengo Gardin in Udine, the only stop in northern Italy. Last month to visit the exhibition

There is still just under a month, until September 15, 2024, to visit the exhibition Gianni Berengo Gardin in Udine, in the Salone del Parlamento and the rooms of the Galleria d’Arte Antica of the Castle. The eye as a craft, curated by Margherita Guccione and Alessandra Mauro, promoted by the Municipality of Udine, and realized by MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts in collaboration with Contrasto and the Civic Museums of Udine.

The exhibition offers a chronological, topological and thematic journey through Italy as seen and photographed by Gianni Berengo Gardin throughout his career. The exhibition traces seventy years of the celebrated photographer’s work, with a special focus on the cities that had a significant impact on both his private life and his professional development. There are 192 shots on display: an integral collection of original vintage prints from the photographer’s personal archive and MAXXI. The aim of the exhibition is to rediscover and reread the Ligurian photographer’s long career through a new perspective, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in his extraordinary artistic journey and explore Italy through his unique and sensitive gaze.

From Venice, where Berengo Gardin first approached photography, to Milan, the city of industry, workers’ struggles and intellectuals, from Sicily to the rice fields of Piedmont to the Monfalcone Shipyards.

One of the most poignant sections of the exhibition is then dedicated to psychiatric hospitals: on display are images from the 1968 volume Morire di classe (Dying in Class), the result of a collaboration between Gianni Berengo Gardin and Carla Cerati. These photographs, which document conditions in Italian psychiatric institutions before the approval of the Basaglia law in 1978, constitute a powerful act of social denunciation, a theme often addressed by the celebrated photographer.

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Gianni Berengo Gardin in Udine, the only stop in northern Italy. Last month to visit the exhibition

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