Turin, at Villa della Regina over 40 shots tell the story of the dog as a true member of the family

From April 20 to June 25, 2023, Villa della Regina in Turin will host the exhibition Divas. Dog Portraits. More than forty works will be placed between the Villa’s Piano Nobile and different rooms, never open to the public before, in a path that intends to take visitors to explore known and lesser-known interiors and the Villa’s magnificent gardens.

The exhibition stems from the Cave Canem project, carried out by photographer Francesco Pergolesi (Venice, 1975) over the past three years and curated by Carla Testore with the intention of recounting the relationship between dog and master in contemporary society, focusing on the evolution of the dog’s role as an effective component of the family unit within the domestic walls.

Pergolesi’s images “photograph” exactly this situation: the total sharing of our private lives with our dogs in our homes while simultaneously restoring an idea of affluence and elegance in which we make them live. It is the dog the primactor, the star, the absolute protagonist of an individual portrait, but the final image reflects both a cross-section of an environment of the home in which he lives and, often, interests or passions of the owner, with a singular composition and deliberately excessive aesthetics. A photographic series that mixes sweetness, irony and wonder.

For info: https://www.divas-dogportraits.it/

Hours: Weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; on pre-holidays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday through Wednesday.

Tickets: Full 7 euros, reduced 4 euros for children 12 to 18, Italian school teachers (free if accompanying classes) and Ministry of Culture personnel. Free for children under 12, card-carrying journalists, people with disabilities and one accompanying person.

Turin, at Villa della Regina over 40 shots tell the story of the dog as a true member of the family

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