The myth of Route 66 becomes an exhibition. In Colorno, more than 70 shots by Franco Fontana

From September 12 to November 8, 2020, the Route 66 exhibition by Franco Fontana (Modena, Italy, 1933) will be on display at the Reggia di Colorno (Parma). The renowned photographer presents the American myth through more than seventy images taken along the 2,248 miles joining Chicago to Los Angeles, following the legendary Route 66.

Inaugurated in 1926, at the height of the spread of the automobile, and totally decommissioned in 1984, Route 66 embodies the spirit of the deepest America, aimed at the discovery of the “new frontier” and of one’s inner self. Great photographers, such as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans and Wim Wenders, have traveled it and immortalized it in their shots, but it has also featured in famous novels of American literature, such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and in many songs. The seventy photographs on display that Franco Fontana took more than two decades ago and which were exhibited at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia in 2002, restore the very idea of the American space and the myth that came to life in gas stations, ghost villages and advertising signs. The exhibition can be visited Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.

The same venue at the Reggia di Colorno will also host an exhibition by Michael Kenna (Widnes, 1953), entitled Fiume Po, from October 16 to November 8, 2020. The renowned contemporary landscape photographer will offer a never-before-seen exhibition dedicated to places along the great river, with a strong focus on details. Kenna has conducted photographic campaigns across all continents, and particularly in recent decades in the Far East. His investigation of the Po River kicked off during a pair of trips to Italy in 2006-2007 in preparation for his 2010 anthological exhibition in Reggio Emilia, and has steadily continued through 2019, with explorations along the entire course of the river, from source to mouth. 102 images make up the monographic volume that accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition can be visited Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.

Both exhibitions are curated by Sandro Parmiggiani and are part of the ColornoPhotoLife photography festival, which runs from Sept. 12 to Nov. 11, 2020.

In addition, during the days of the festival, the Reggia’s portico will host the Color’s Light members’ group exhibition, Una donna, Maria Luigia. Investigating the Legacy Left by Maria Luigia of Austria, led by art historian Eles Iotti.

In the Mupac space of the Aranciaia, Livio Senigalliesi (Milan, 1956) is exhibiting, from Sept. 13 to Oct. 11, images from his Collateral Effects: true images intended to nurture memory and a critical consciousness against war. Photographs taken up close, being among the people suffering, sharing the dangers, the cold, the hunger and walking the same escape paths.

And again, at the Aranciaia from Sept. 12 to Oct. 11 it will be possible to observe Epiphanies: the other physics of the landscape by Tina Cosmai, who reflects on the post-human condition in which the subject is at the center of a reality pervaded by technology.

Raffaele Petralla leads visitors, with his reportage Cosmodrome, from Oct. 16 to Nov. 8 at the Aranciaia, into the lives of those who collect and recycle the wreckage of Russian rockets that fall in the snow of the tundra in Russia, bordering the Arctic Circle.

My Land, on the other hand, is the title of Camilla Biella’s exhibition, which reveals, from Oct. 16 to Nov. 8 at the Aranciaia, the small ancient world of the Po Valley, between the ancient Via Emilia and the first Apennine hills of Piacenza, with the daily rituals of small rural settlements.

Admission to MUPAC is free (Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.).

ColornoPhotoLife is made possible thanks to the Color’s Light Photography Group and ANTEA Projects and Services for Culture and Tourism and has the patronage of Destinazione Turistica Emilia, FIAF and the Province of Parma and the support of the Municipality of Colorno, the Emila Romagna Region and the Cariparma Foundation.

For info: www.colornophotolife.it

Ph.Credit Franco Fontana

The myth of Route 66 becomes an exhibition. In Colorno, more than 70 shots by Franco Fontana

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