Do you like an opera? If you call Palazzo Magnani, one of their experts will explain it to you over the phone

From November 11, 2020, the Magnani Foundation kicks off an alternative and original way to talk about the works on display in the True Fictions exhibition, now closed as a result of the new anti-Covid19 restrictive measures: every Wednesday, from 5 to 7 p.m., until December 23, 2020, Opere al telefono will be held. In the wake of the fairy tales told on the phone by Gianni Rodari, whose birth centenary falls this year, by the way, participants will literally be able to chat on the phone with one of the Foundation’s experts, to whom they can ask questions about the techniques used, the artists’ lives and their projects, and talk about the anecdotes related to the images, the ideas behind each work, and all the truths and fictions that these photographs conceal.

It is a format that was invented, just during the first wave of the Covid pandemic, by a Dutch museum, the LAM Museum in Lisse, which during the first lockdown offered its audiences an efficient art-on-the-phone service.

True Fictions is the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to staged photography, which has revolutionized the language of photography since the 1980s. The exhibition presents the more imaginative side of photography through the inventions of some of the greatest authors of the last 30 years and through the experiments born of digital technology. Among the great masters, such as Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, James Casebere, Sandy Skoglund, Yasumasa Morimura, and Laurie Simmons, will be exhibited images by artists such as Erwin Olaf, David Lachapelle, Nic Nicosia, Emily Allchurch, Joan Fontcuberta, Julia Fullerton Batten, Paolo Ventura, Lori Nix, Miwa Yanagi, Alison Jackson, Jung Yeondoo, Jiang Pengyi, and by authors rarely exhibited in Italy, such as Bernard Faucon, Eileen Cowin, Bruce Charlesworth, David Levinthal.

To participate in Works on the Phone simply browse the catalog on the website, choose the image that intrigues you most and call 0522/444446, with the certainty that on the other end an expert will lead you into another reality, that of the work you choose.

For info: palazzomagnani.it

Pictured is Sandy Skoglund, Fox Games (1989).

Do you like an opera? If you call Palazzo Magnani, one of their experts will explain it to you over the phone

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