Palazzo Reale in Milan dedicates a major anthological exhibition to Ferdinando Scianna

From March 22 to June 5, 2022, the piano nobile of the Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the major anthological exhibition Ferdinando Scianna. Viaggio Racconto Memoria, curated by Paola Bergna, Denis Curti and Alberto Bianda, promoted and produced by Comune di Milano|Cultura, Palazzo Reale and Civita Mostre e Musei.

Through more than two hundred black-and-white photographs in various formats, arranged in an articulated narrative path in different chapters, the exhibition aims to trace the entire career of the famous Sicilian photographer. Ferdinando Scianna is considered one of the masters of photography not only in Italy. He began in the 1960s, telling through images the culture and traditions of his home region, Sicily. His production touches on various themes, such as current events, war, travel, popular religiosity, all linked by the constant search for form in the chaos of life. In over fifty years of stories, there is no shortage of suggestions: from Bagheria to the Bolivian Andes, from religious festivals (the debut of his career) to his experience in the fashion world, which began with Dolce & Gabbana and Marpessa. Also, reportages (he is the first Italian to be part of the famous Magnum agency since 1982), landscapes, his thematic obsessions such as mirrors, animals, things. Finally, the portraits of his great friends, masters of the world of art and culture such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jorge Louis Borges and in particular Leonardo Sciascia, to whom an entire and unprecedented section of the exhibition is reserved, which, with the Bibliography, dedicated to his many books, enriches and completes the exhibition itinerary.

The exhibition is divided into the sections The Memory, The Tale, Obsessions, The Journey, Portraits, Rites and Myths, and for the occasion it is also enriched with two important unpublished sections, one dedicated to Leonardo Sciascia and the other, the Bibliography, which presents a selection of Scianna’s books, from the first, Religious Feasts in Sicily to the very latest publications.

“A major anthological exhibition like this one in Milan is for a photographer like me a complex, fascinating and perhaps even arbitrary journey through sixty years of his own work and memory,” Scianna himself said. “Here are already two key words of this exhibition and the accompanying book: Memory and Journey. The third, fundamental, is Tale. More than two hundred photographs divided into three large bodies, divided in turn into twenty-one thematic sections. This attempts to be this exhibition, a Tale and a Journey in Memory. The story of a photographer in over half a century of photography.”

In the exhibition, in addition to the presence of some of his most important books that can be browsed on monitors, visitors are accompanied by an audio guide, in which Ferdinando Scianna talks in the first person about his understanding of photography, stories and anecdotes from his career as a photographer and his life.

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Image: Paris, 1989 © Ferdinando Scianna

Palazzo Reale in Milan dedicates a major anthological exhibition to Ferdinando Scianna

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