Over fifty years of career told in an anthological exhibition dedicated to Ferdinando Scianna. At the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice

A major anthological exhibition will chronicle the artistic career of renowned contemporary photographer Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria, 1943): from August 31, 2019 to February 2, 2020, the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice will be open to the public with the exhibition Ferdinando Scianna. Journey Tale Memory.

Through 180 black and white works divided into the three major themes of his production, Journey, Tale and Memory, more than fifty years of his career will be traced.

Also on display for the occasion will be a series of fashion images Scianna took in Venice, evidence of his connection with the city.

Gifted with great self-mockery, Scianna chose a text by Giorgio Manganelli to summarize this exhibition of his: “An anthology is a legitimate slaughter, a carnage viewed with favor by civil and religious authorities. A clean operation of mauling the books that go around the world under the author’s name to make a stew, a timbale, a stew....”

“As a photographer, I consider myself a reporter. As a reporter my fundamental reference is that of my master par excellence, Henri Cartier-Bresson, for whom the photographer must aspire to be an invisible witness, who never intervenes to modify the world and the instants he reads and interprets of reality. I have always made a clear distinction between found and constructed images. I have always considered that I belong to the side of photographers who find images, those that tell and tell you, as in a mirror. Even fashion photographs I have always found them in the hazard of encounters with the world,” Scianna said about his work.

His shots depict places, from Bagheria to the Bolivian Andes, religious festivals, fashion, landscapes, mirrors, animals, portraits of masters of the world of art and culture such as Leonardo Sciascia, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Jorge Louis Borges. Not forgetting his reportages: since 1982 he was the first Italian to be part of the Magnum agency.

The exhibition is curated by Denis Curti, Paola Bergna and Alberto Bianda and is organized by Civita Mostre e Musei and Civita Tre Venezie and promoted by Fondazione di Venezia.

For info: www.treoci.org

Image: Ferdinando Scianna, Marpessa, Caltagirone, 1987 © Ferdinando Scianna

Over fifty years of career told in an anthological exhibition dedicated to Ferdinando Scianna. At the Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice

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