In Pistoia the most comprehensive anthology ever of Aurelio Amendola, interpreter of ancient and contemporary

Until July 25, 2021 Fondazione Pistoia Musei welcomes in its two venues of Palazzo Buontalenti and Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi about three hundred shots taken by one of the greatest photographers of our time, Aurelio Amendola (Pistoia, 1938), on the occasion of the exhibition Aurelio Amendola / An Anthology. Michelangelo, Burri, Warhol and the Others. Ananthology where images of theancient (his shots of Michelangelo’s sculptures in the New Sacristy are famous), theavant-garde and the contemporary retrace Amendola’s photographic activity, but also the happenings of the 1970s, the ateliers, the big exhibitions, the friendships and collaborations and the small museum realities.

The exhibition is intended to be a true tribute to the career of a photographer whose images are expressions of great intensity and the passion of a lifetime. Numerous are his shots: Aurelio Amendola is in fact one of today’s most active and prolific photographers, capable of rendering through his lens the subject matter of the works and subjects he portrays. Although oriented toward the Tuscan cultural context, especially of his Pistoia, he actually makes himself an interpreter of Italian and international art.

More than sixty years of activity are retraced here thanks to his splendid images, as well as shown his ability to range in all genres, even experimenting, from the ancient to the contemporary. These in fact constitute the two major sections into which the exhibition is divided, linked by continuous figurative references. Because of its vastness, the exhibition can be considered as the first exhibition that brings together almost the entirety of Amendola’s production, giving visitors the opportunity to understand the photographer’s figurative coherence, as well as his connection with the classical tradition, with the history of art and photography, and with the great contemporary masters.

A great interpreter, as already stated, of the work of Michelangelo, he has also dedicated famous shots to masterpieces by artists such as Antonio Canova, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jacopo della Quercia, Donatello, Giovanni Pisano, to name a few protagonists of ancient and modern art, and has portrayed many artists of contemporary art, including Alberto Burri, Giorgio de Chirico, Andy Warhol, Giacomo Manzù, Emilio Vedova, Mario Ceroli, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jannis Kounellis. Through his images he is able to converse with the spirit of the artists, restoring their style and intensity.

Aurelio Amendola’s photography is never an aesthetic object, but a poetic act, in which the atmospheric and sensory quality of his shots, which do not stop at a mere documentary level, is clearly visible. A world-renowned author, he has photographed at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Uffizi, the Vatican Museums, the Vittoriale degli Italiani, for FMR magazine and many other national and international museum institutions.

The exhibition is produced by Fondazione Pistoia Musei - Pistoia Eventi Culturali S.c.r.l, with the contribution of Fondazione Caript. Sponsor Fondazione Caript | Media partner Sky Arte | Partner UnicoopFirenze | Under the patronage of Comune di Pistoia

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Hours: Monday through Friday from 2 to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Wednesdays.

Tickets: Full 10 euros, reduced 7 euros. Free for children up to 6 years old.

Pictured: Aurelio Amendola, Michelangelo’s Giuliano de’ Medici, Medici Chapels (1992).

In Pistoia the most comprehensive anthology ever of Aurelio Amendola, interpreter of ancient and contemporary

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