Turin, from Mazzoleni the third stage of the exhibition for the 80th birthday of Oliviero Toscani

After Palazzo Reale in Milan and Palazzo Albergati in Bologna, the Mazzoleni gallery is hosting in its Turin location, until Jan. 14, 2023, the third and final stage of the cycle of exhibitions celebrating Oliviero Toscani’s 80th birthday.The Toscani chez Mazzoleni exhibition brings together a wide selection of shots curated by the photographer, from his most iconic and well-known images to the previously unseen body of photographs of Burri’s Great Cretto of Gibellina, presented for the first time using the innovative technique of printing on cement. The exhibition route opens on the ground floor of the gallery with an anthology of more than 100 images that trace the creative power of Oliviero Toscani spanning his entire career.

Going up to the main floor, the exhibition path winds through a series of shots imprinted for the first time with a special technique on large concrete slabs, which gives the images body and three-dimensionality. Iconic works by an artist who used visionary ability, provocation and transgression to counter racism, inequality and abuse. These include the famous Jesus Jeans poster ’Who Loves Me Follow Me,’ Kiss Between Priest and Nun from 1992, the Three Hearts White/Black/Yellow from 1996.

Using the same technique, the series on the Cretto of Gibellina, created by Toscani for the Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye project, will be exhibited. The works, declined in prints on cement of monumental dimensions, will dialogue with Burri’s Cretti from the Mazzoleni collection.

Finally, two large-scale wallpapers take the visitor on a concentrated journey through the 10-year project Razza Umana, with which Oliviero Toscani has ploughed hundreds of squares around the world to photograph anyone who wished, creating the largest existing photographic archive on the morphological and social differences of humanity, with more than 10,000 portraits, some of which were taken during the last edition of the Kappa Future Festival in Turin.

For all information, you can visit Mazzoleni’s official website.

Turin, from Mazzoleni the third stage of the exhibition for the 80th birthday of Oliviero Toscani

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