Italy between 1960 and 1975 told in an exhibition at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

Until Oct. 16, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere is hosting the exhibition Interesting Years. Moments of Italian Life 1960 - 1975, which, thanks to a careful selection of photographs and visual documents from theIstituto Luce, is presented as a journey for the eyes, intense and revealing of a period of national history, from 1960 to 1975, that indelibly marked the face and identity of the country.

The exhibition is an ideal continuation to the previous fruitful collaborations between Roma Capitale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and Istituto Luce represented by the War is Over exhibitions that recounted theItalyof Liberation and Il Sorpasso a fresco of Italy at the dawn of modernity.

Interesting Years borrows, and pays homage to, the title of the autobiography by Eric J. Hobsbawm, the great historian of the short century, and describes with similar rapidity of synthesis and gaze, the sprint of a pivotal period, experienced by Italians as a race toward modernity. 124 images, all in black and white, from the first, the completion of the construction of the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, to the last depicting a Free Radio born in 1975, in a non-didactic itinerary that prefers associations a sign of the temperaments of a season of antinomies and lively contradictions.

The photos come from some of Italy’s most historic photo agencies: the VEDO and DIAL, whose funds are preserved in the great Archivio Luce; Publifoto Roma, and Archivio Farabola. Alongside the images of the great artists of reportage such as Gianni Berengo Gardin, Pino Settanni, Carlo Cisventi, and Caius Mario Garrubba, one can see the work of photographers who have gone down in history proverbially as the paparazzi, authors capable of catching society by stealth and surprise and of making scoops and at the same time costume criticism of refined aesthetics, but also of anonymous photographs of the highest quality.

The exhibition is completed by a catalog, edited by Enrico Menduni, published by Electa, with texts by the curator and Chiara Sbarigia, president of Cinecittà, which reproduces all the images in the exhibition, with a description of the Photographic Archives and a valuable Regest.

For all information, you can visit the museum’s official website.

Italy between 1960 and 1975 told in an exhibition at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

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