In Modena, an autumn enlivened by the exhibitions of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, under the banner of photography

On September 13, 2019, the opening day of the nineteenth edition of the philosophy festival (running until September 15 in Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo), Fondazione Modena Arti Visive inaugurated a series of exhibitions and initiatives that will involve the venues of Palazzo Santa Margherita, Palazzina dei Giardini, MATA ex-Manifattura Tabacchi, Museo della Figurina and AGO Modena Fabbriche Culturali.

The exhibition program of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, created ad hoc on the Person theme of the 2019 philosophy festival, is the result of a collaboration that has been going on for years, and which in 2019 is further strengthened with the choice of three artists who investigate the leitmotif of the festival through different points of view.

At the spaces of MATA, the Solo exhibition by photographer Luisa Menazzi Moretti (Udine, 1964) offers, until November 17, 2019, 28 photographs from the Solo cycle, in which the artist, through filters, superimpositions, out-of-focus, portrays faces of men, women, children, all suspended in an a-temporal and poetic dimension, conceived as a journey to the elsewhere, the unknown, the ineffable. They are portraits of people of whom nothing we know, different from each other in origin, age, condition, and who do not seem to have any connection with each other except belonging to the human species. The imaginary thread that unites them is a projection by the photographer of their fates and of a mysterious moment that since the dawn of time man has been trying to figure out, that of the thin border between life and death. Between their gaze and that of the viewer are barriers that ideally preserve between us and them a bond of brotherhood, but mark at the same time an impossibility of sharing. Through these portraits of men, women and children, the dimension of death has nothing tragic but that of a journey into the unknown.

At the Palazzina dei Giardini, in the exhibition Where are we now?, also through Nov. 17, the Neapolitan artist Vittorio Guida (Naples, 1957) narrates through a series of works (2 videos, 6 photos, 1 sculptural installation) the contemporary world with a universal language, questioning what we are today or, rather, “where” we are today, in what world, in what culture, in what relationships, in what space. What results is a portrait of a society that is losing its sense of community, dominated by fear, resentment and hostility. Vittorio Guida is a photographer who has worked in various fields and made images in many parts of the world, with a particular focus on two areas considered central to the future development of the planet: China and Africa.

AGO Modena Fabbriche Culturali, in the Church of San Nicolò, will host until Nov. 17, 2019, the exhibition R-North by photographer Tommaso Mori (Modena, 1988), one of the winners of the Call for Projects ABITARE for photographers under 35, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Milan Triennale with the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. The exhibition, curated by Matteo Balduzzi in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Milan-Cinisello Balsamo, which lent the works, presents the outcomes of the project that Tommaso Mori carried out on Modena’s R-North neighborhood, in which he analyzes the mutual influence between the building’s architecture, its transformations and its inhabitants. Over the course of an entire day, Mori took a portrait of more than 200 inhabitants of the neighborhood, who customized it by superimposing period and current images of the neighborhood, articles, documents, and original architectural and urban planning plans.

Admission to the exhibitions is free. Other initiatives can be seen on the Modena Visual Arts Foundation website. All information is also available by calling +39 059 6138098.

Pictured: Tommaso Mori, R-North, 2018. View of the installation at La Triennale di Milano. Ph. credit: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Milan-Cinisello Balsamo - Fondo Abitare

Source: press release

In Modena, an autumn enlivened by the exhibitions of Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, under the banner of photography

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