In Gorizia the first Italian anthology of Sergio Scabar

Obscura camera (1969-2018) by Sergio Scabar (Ronchi dei Legionari, 1946) is the exhibition that will be hosted from June 28 to October 13, 2019 at Palazzo Attems Petzenstein of the Provincial Museums of Gorizia.

This is the first anthological exhibition in Italy dedicated to the artist who made the snapshot a true tool of reflection and investigation, who became famous for The Theater of Things in 1999, a work focused on poetic research and the essentiality of objects.

Nearly three hundred photographs will be on display in the exhibition to chronologically trace Sergio Scabar’s artistic journey, which can be divided into two phases: one en plein air based on reportage and the other more experimental and reflective. In reportage, the framing remains fixed while objects and people flow in front of the lens: an example is fifty photographs depicting the interior of a psychiatric hospital in Gorizia taken in 1976.

The series devoted to everyday objects in 1986 is an anticipation of the change in Scabar’s art, where macro details attract his attention. His artistic production becomes more conceptual, focusing on the value of the cut in photography, understood both as framing and as material cropping of the photographic print. Scabar focuses in particular on thematerial aspect of subjects, investigated both in black and white and in color, with a series of still lifes: in this case he investigates the “silence of light,” that is, the dim illumination of his works.

Since the late 1990s, in fact, still life has been central to his production: he develops a special alchemical shooting and printing technique that allows for dark opaque tones, between dark brown and black. The frames of the photographs themselves are made by the artist himself.

The objects depicted can be single, in pairs or in groups and belong to kitchen utensils, the world of arts and crafts, the photographer’s tools of yesteryear, printing and antique books, and a recent series, from 2017, is devoted entirely to vegetables and vegetables. Recurring are glass bottles and objects for their responsiveness to light.

The exhibition is curated by Guido Cecere and Alessandro Quinzi.

For info: www.musei.regione.fvg.it

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 6 euros, reduced 3 euros for 18 to 25 year olds.

Image: Sergio Scabar, The Silence of Things (2001)

In Gorizia the first Italian anthology of Sergio Scabar

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