Waiting for European Photography. A photographic autumn in Reggio Emilia with four exhibitions

In anticipation of the European Photography Festival, which will be held in spring 2021, the Palazzo Magnani Foundation and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia will present four photography exhibitions in Reggio Emilia from October 10, 2020 to January 2021, which will be held at Palazzo Magnani, Palazzo da Mosto, Spazio Gerra, and the Panizzi Library.

Palazzo Magnani will host from Oct. 17, 2020, to Jan. 10, 2021, the exhibition True Fictions - Visionary Photography from the 1970s to Today, curated by Walter Guadagnini: this is the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to staged photography, which, since the 1980s, has revolutionized the language of photography. Produced by Fotografia Europea, 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, and David Levinthal. With more than 100 works, the exhibition shows the spread and longevity of this language.

On the other hand,Palazzo da Mosto will host from October 17, 2020 to January 10, 2021 a group exhibition entitled Atlases, Portraits and Other Stories - 6 Young European Photographers. The exhibition brings together the solo shows of the three winners of the open call launched by European Photography 2020, along with three other projects selected by the jury. On display will be Alessandra Baldoni (Perugia, 1976) with her Atlas, a map of analogies for images in diptychs and triptychs; Alexia Fiasco (Paris, 1990) who with The Denial takes the public on a photographic journey to discover their origins. Francesco Merlini (Aosta, 1986) with Valparaiso in which the artist confronts his own family memories and the places of his childhood; Manon Lanjouère (Paris, 1993) who, with Laboratory of Universe, shows a series of images that tell the origin of the Universe; Giaime Meloni (Cagliari, Italy, 1984) with Das Unheimliche, which is a metaphor for the condition of contemporary living; and finally Denisse Ariana Pérez (Dominican Republic, 1988) with Albinism , Albinism II, a series focused on albinism.

And again, from October 10, 2020 to January 10, 2021, Spazio Gerra will host Under the same roof: exhibiting the work of 33 young European authors between the ages of 15 and 18. Under the guidance of a team of peers and operators of the Space, the young artists have analyzed their own family condition using imagination: the result is still lives charged with symbolic power, bizarre rebuses in which every detail is studied, inviting the viewer to identify with the experience and vision of the young authors.

Finally, from October 31, 2020 to January 10, 2021, the exhibition entitled Who Am I? Representation of Childhood between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Photographs and photobooks from the Panizzi Library collections curated by Laura Gasparini, Monica Leoni and Elisabeth Sciarretta. The exhibition project proposes a selection, from photographic and bibliographic funds, of authors who have been interested in the representation of childhood: photographers, professionals, artists and amateurs, but also writers, who have been able to tell childhood with different eyes.

The exhibitions will be further enriched by the projects of Circuito Off, an independent section of Fotografia Europea consisting of small other exhibitions set up in stores, restaurants, courtyards, galleries and historic venues in the historic center.

All exhibitions are part of the Reggio for EMILIA 2020 - 2021 project “Culture will not stay in its place.”

Also reconfirmed is the network created by Fotografia Europea with some of the most important regional cultural institutions, which are now recovering exhibitions that should have been set up in the spring.

From Oct. 4, 2020 to May 16, 2021, Collezione Maramotti presents Mollino/Insides, an exhibition featuring paintings by Enoc Perez and photographs by Brigitte Schindler and Carlo Mollino. At Linea di Confine per la Fotografia Contemporanea in Rubiera (RE), it will be possible to visit, from Oct. 17 to Dec. 6, 2020, Guido Guidi’s exhibition Lunario, a 30-year-long photographic journey on the theme of the moon, and Luca Nostri’s exhibition entitled Quattro cortili, consisting of four photographic series, two archival and two authorial. In Modena, two photographic exhibitions in dialogue with each other: the solo exhibition by Mario Cresci, entitled La luce, la traccia, la forma, promoted by Fondazione Modena Arti Visive at Palazzo Santa Margherita and L’impronta del reale. W. H. Fox Talbot at the Origins of Photography, which the Estensi Galleries is dedicating to the inventor of photography on paper and the processes of image reproduction.

Image: Manon Lanjouère, Figure de l’observateur #1, The Laboratory of the Universe (2017 - 2019) ©Manon Lanjouèr

Waiting for European Photography. A photographic autumn in Reggio Emilia with four exhibitions

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