MAXXI in Rome hosts major photography exhibition by Gianni Berengo Gardin

From May 4 to September 18, MAXXI in Rome opens its doors to the exhibition L’occhio come mestiere, which will showcase the photographs of Gianni Berengo Gardin.

The exhibition unfolds along a path of more than 150 photographs, including the most famous, the lesser-known, up to unpublished ones: a unique visual heritage, from the postwar period to the present, characterized by consistency in linguistic choices and a “craft” approach to photographic practice.

From the Venice of the first images to the Milan of industry, intellectuals, and workers’ struggles; from the places of work (the reportages made for Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Pirelli, and especially Olivetti) to those of everyday life; from psychiatric hospitals (with Morire di classe of 1968), to the universe of gypsies; from the many small rural villages to large cities; from earthquake-stricken Aquila to the MAXXI under construction photographed in 2009.

Through a fluid and non-chronological path, the exhibition offers a reflection on the peculiar characteristics of Berengo Gardin’s research: the centrality of man and his place in social space; the concretely but also poetically analog nature of his “real” photography (uncut, unmanipulated); the power and specificity of his way of constructing the narrative sequence, which leaves no room for simple descriptions of space but naturally builds stories.

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

Pictured: Gianni Berengo Gardin, Rome-Milan Train (1991), detail. Photo Gianni Berengo Gardin / concession Fondazione Forma per la fotografia, Milan.

MAXXI in Rome hosts major photography exhibition by Gianni Berengo Gardin

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