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Gianni Ummarino. Viaggio nel tempo. Calder Adami Del Pezzo
01.2011–02.2011
Gianni Ummarino. Viaggio nel tempo. Calder Adami Del Pezzo
01.2011–02.2011
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Gianni Ummarino
Valerio Adami, '70
Paris
Valerio Adami, '70
Paris
Press Release
Gianni Ummarino
Viaggio nel tempo
Calder Adami Del Pezzo
Opening: January 18, 2011
January 19 – February 12, 2011
Viaggio nel tempo
Calder Adami Del Pezzo
Opening: January 18, 2011
January 19 – February 12, 2011
The Marconi Foundation is delighted to announce Gianni Ummarino.Viaggio nel tempo: Calder Adami Del Pezzo.
Gianni Ummarino, a longtime contributor to Studio Marconi, will present a selection of photographic works from the Seventies and from 2007 to 2010.
It’s a sort of journal of the artist's travels through France and Italy within the space of thirty years, in order to visit, portrait and meet again three important artists in their studios: Alexander Calder, Valerio Adami and Lucio Del Pezzo, all involved with Studio Marconi.
Ummarino found some old negatives and this was the starting point to sort his big archive and also to decide to complete that experience.
Getting in touch with the artists – for Calder he had to talk to the manager of Calder Foundation in Saché – planning the shooting and the travels kept the photographer and his team busy for long.
Gianni Ummarino has decided to retrace his steps and to update those stories that enchanted him so much in the Seventies.
Comparing the photos it seems that Adami’s home, as his owner, have not changed a lot, apart from his beard and glasses, an unavoidable sign of tyme.
The metaphysical atmosphere of Del Pezzo’s studio in Milan is unchanged too.
Gianni Ummarino, a longtime contributor to Studio Marconi, will present a selection of photographic works from the Seventies and from 2007 to 2010.
It’s a sort of journal of the artist's travels through France and Italy within the space of thirty years, in order to visit, portrait and meet again three important artists in their studios: Alexander Calder, Valerio Adami and Lucio Del Pezzo, all involved with Studio Marconi.
Ummarino found some old negatives and this was the starting point to sort his big archive and also to decide to complete that experience.
Getting in touch with the artists – for Calder he had to talk to the manager of Calder Foundation in Saché – planning the shooting and the travels kept the photographer and his team busy for long.
Gianni Ummarino has decided to retrace his steps and to update those stories that enchanted him so much in the Seventies.
Comparing the photos it seems that Adami’s home, as his owner, have not changed a lot, apart from his beard and glasses, an unavoidable sign of tyme.
The metaphysical atmosphere of Del Pezzo’s studio in Milan is unchanged too.
And even Saché feeling has not been altered by time, the exhibition space assigned to new artists that are periodically invited to display their works (when Ummarino visited the Foundation there were staged Thomas Saraceno works), has not changed.
Calder’s presence seems still lively and perceptible. So the result is a new encounter with old friends with whom it is possible to light up common memories in order to interpret the present: this operation is not related to nostalgia but to comparison.
The exhibition displays refined black and white and coloured photos, a perfect example of Ummarino's style: an harmonic alchemy of different techniques, as a result of his long career: reportage, portrayt, still life and also advertising.
A selection of works by the artists portrayed in the photos will be also on display, creating a further cross-reference.
On the occasion of the opening the book Gianni Ummarino Viaggio nel tempo Calder Adami Del Pezzo will be presented. It collects 187 photographs of Ummarino's journey from Paris to Milan in the studios of the three artists.
Calder’s presence seems still lively and perceptible. So the result is a new encounter with old friends with whom it is possible to light up common memories in order to interpret the present: this operation is not related to nostalgia but to comparison.
The exhibition displays refined black and white and coloured photos, a perfect example of Ummarino's style: an harmonic alchemy of different techniques, as a result of his long career: reportage, portrayt, still life and also advertising.
A selection of works by the artists portrayed in the photos will be also on display, creating a further cross-reference.
On the occasion of the opening the book Gianni Ummarino Viaggio nel tempo Calder Adami Del Pezzo will be presented. It collects 187 photographs of Ummarino's journey from Paris to Milan in the studios of the three artists.