More than one hundred photographs by Ettore Sottsass on display at Catania's Castello Ursino

by Redazione , published on 04/10/2022
Categories: Exhibitions / Disclaimer
Catania's Castello Ursino hosts an exhibition to present photographer Ettore Sottsass. On display are 111 photographs, almost all previously unpublished.

From Nov. 21, 2022 to May 21, 2023, the Civic Museum “Castello Ursino” in Catania presents the exhibition Catania mia! by Ettore Sottsass (Innsbruck, 1917 - Milan, 2007), curated by Barbara Radice with Iskra Grisogono and the artistic direction of Christoph Radl; it is produced by the OELLE Mediterraneo Antico Foundation in collaboration with the Ettore Sottsass Studio and in partnership with the Department of Tourism Sports and Entertainment of the City of Catania.

On display will be 111 photographs, in black and white and color, almost all unpublished, taken in Catania in the 1990s, through which it is intended to tell the story of photographer Ettore Sottsass, one of the lesser known and investigated aspects of the great Italian architect and designer. Conceived and realized for the spaces of the Ursino Castle, the exhibition narrates a vital Catania: the Baroque, the fish market, the streets, scenes of daily life; these are photograms of the city.

Sottsass began taking pictures when he was still a boy and never stopped, although this aspect is little known. “I was horribly curious,” he had declared himself. Photographing was a way of “stopping” life as well as a means of documenting it. That is why he could be called a “photojournalist of life.”

For collaboration, we thank Studio Sottsass in Milan, the Sottsass Fund at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris and the Bibliothèque Kandinsky for the high definitions of the negatives they hold.

Image: Ettore Sottsass. Courtesy of Studio Ettore Sottsass, OELLE Ancient Mediterranean Foundation.

More than one hundred photographs by Ettore Sottsass on display at Catania's Castello Ursino
More than one hundred photographs by Ettore Sottsass on display at Catania's Castello Ursino


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