Photographer Maurizio Frullani honored in Iter in Fabula exhibition in Trieste

In Trieste, from May 31 to August 31, 2019, AIM - Alinari Image Museum presents the photography exhibition Maurizio Frullani - Iter in fabula, promoted by Fratelli Alinari. Foundation for the History of Photography, curated by Annamaria Castellan and Giacomo Frullani.

The exhibition is a tribute to Isonzo photographer Maurizio Frullani (Ronchi dei Legionari, 1942 - 2015), and to his soul as a great traveler who made photography “a tool for the search for knowledge.” Shy, reserved and silent but with a limpid and discreet gaze Maurizio Frullani investigates the people he photographs with entirely peculiar empathy. From his passion for music he has learned the endless variations with which to write and rewrite his stories and those of the men he has met in his long travels especially in the East along the Silk Road. His travel reports tell of still untouched countries such as Afghanistan, Yemen, and India, where the author collects glances and stories of the men he met and with whom he always sought contact.

In India he approached Indian classical music, was initiated to the study of sitar and, from this experience, portraits of Indian masters, musicians, luthiers were born. In Venice he will resume the study of this instrument and will continue in Italy the photographic project begun in India, portraying local musicians contextually with contemporary artists from Friuli Venezia Giulia. His archive counts more than three hundred portraits of painters, sculptors, photographers, writers and filmmakers, made in almost forty years of continuous and constant work.

Today, Maurizio Frullani’s portraits are considered one of the most important historical documentations of the cultural life of the Friulian territory, a photographic geography that documents not only faces and environments but also stops in the image the soul and thought that each of these personalities holds.

During the years spent in Massawa (1993-2000), Frullani photographed the human condition of war-scarredEritrea, respectfully approaching men, women and children by entering their homes, courtyards and workshops imbued with a rarefied poverty, never degrading, where the subjects look directly into the camera, creating that moment of suspension that holds the magic proper to the photographic medium, the foundation of Frullani’s work. Returning to his Ronchi dei Legionari, Frullani created the large-scale photographic project Santi, Miti e Leggende, a work in which the artist reinterprets the myths and legends of different peoples, with subtle and intelligent irony, making large-scale paintings and creating fantastic postmodern and aestheticizing visions. The retrospective dedicated to Maurizio Frullani brings to the general public the photographic themes dear to him such as Sherazade, On the Raga Road, Massawa, Saints, Myths and Legends, and Portraits of the Artists of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

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Photographer Maurizio Frullani honored in Iter in Fabula exhibition in Trieste

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