Seeing the Baroque through photography: an exhibition at CAMERA in Turin

On the occasion of the ongoing exhibition Sfida al Barocco (Challenge to Baroque ) at the Reggia di Venaria until September 20, 2020, CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia di Torino presents the exhibition Vedere (il) Barocco: lavori in corso, curated by Barbara Bergaglio and Pierangelo Cavanna. The exhibition can be visited from June 19 to August 30, 2020 and will be set up in CAMERA’s Project Room.

Through seventy photographic images one will have the opportunity to understand how some photographers have looked at the Baroque, especially its architecture, in twentieth-century Turin. These include Paolo Beccaria, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Giancarlo Dall’Armi, Pino Dell’Aquila, Giuseppe Ferrazzino, Giorgio Jano, Mimmo Jodice, Aldo Moisio, Riccardo Moncalvo, Ernani Orcorte, Augusto Pedrini, Giustino Rampazzi, Daniele Regis, and Roberto Schezen.

The exhibition aims to draw attention to the different ways of photographically describing Baroque architecture. A look that has changed over the years: from the simple descriptive intention for documentary purposes to the elaboration of refined interpretative tools, marking the transition from simple “baroque photographing” to an effective “baroque seeing.” “The project and the challenge of this exhibition,” declare the curators, “arise from the need to understand how and to what extent the dialogue with Baroque architecture, in which Turin is rich, has urged the most sensitive photographers to test and field descriptive solutions that, going beyond the documentary intention, have gradually taken on a different, more interpretative and critical meaning.”

“Photographs that are only apparently bizarre,” the curators continue, “momentarily unrecognizable and incommensurable from our established way of seeing. Photographs that live by a baroque multiplication of escapes, foreshortening, and consequent projective deformations to retain and transmit the excitement induced in the eye of the observer.”

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Image: San Lorenzo. Ph.Credit Pino Dell’Aquila

Seeing the Baroque through photography: an exhibition at CAMERA in Turin

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