The natural and social landscape shared between Sardinia and Molise in Lisetta Carmi's shots. On display in Termoli

The MACTE Museum of Contemporary Art in Termoli is hosting until January 16, 2022, the exhibition Lisetta Carmi. Voci allegre nel buio, curated by Luigi Fassi and Giovanni Battista Martini, in collaboration with the Lisetta Carmi Archive. Seventy shots taken by one of the most important Italian photographers of the twentieth century, Lisetta Carmi (Genoa, 1924), between 1962 and 1976 in Sardinia, along with previously unpublished archival materials, are on display. A project witnessing a common feeling and a shared natural and anthropological landscape between Sardinia and Molise.

“Thanks to this exhibition we build a metaphorical bridge between Sardinia and Molise,” emphasizes Caterina Riva, director of MACTE, “made possible by the extraordinary images created by Lisetta Carmi and the careful curatorship of Luigi Fassi and Giovanni Battista Martini. I am delighted that a new audience can discover the work of a central figure of the Italian twentieth century, and embrace with their gaze a common natural, social and anthropological landscape.”

The exhibition has been reconfigured for the MACTE spaces with an emphasis on those traits in common that characterize the landscape of Southern Italy: the landscape changing with human intervention, waterways, pastoralism and mountains are accompanied by portraits of social life, work and celebrations. It is thus a reinterpretation of the exhibition produced by the MAN in Nuoro in 2020, recounting that natural and social landscape shared by Sardinia and Molise, which has almost disappeared today.

Two rooms at MACTE host a selection of works from the museum’s permanent collection that offer different interpretations of landscape, as in the works from the Termoli Prize Collection by Elisa Montessori, Luca Patella, Bianca Santilli, Mario Schifano, Giulio Turcato and Lisetta’s brother Eugenio Carmi.

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Image: Lisetta Carmi, Orgosolo (exit from church), 1964

The natural and social landscape shared between Sardinia and Molise in Lisetta Carmi's shots. On display in Termoli

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