The inauguration of Luce della Montagna will be held on Friday 24 March , the major exhibition that Fondazione Brescia Musei and Skira are staging to explore, with three absolute protagonists of 20th-century photography and a contemporary master, the iconographic universe of the mountain, the flagship projects of the sixth edition of the Brescia Photo Festival, the initiative promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and the Brescia Museums Foundation, in collaboration with Ma.Co.f – Center of Italian photography.

The exhibition will be open from 24 March 2023 to 25 June 2023 at the Santa Giulia Museum

“Four photographers, four different interpretations of the mountain that flow through time from the last decades of the 19th century to the present day. Four authors who use photography to get to know the world around them, returning gazes and visions that have changed from one century to the next in step with the awareness that photographic art was conquering itself. The exhibition [...] is a temporal excursion through images that leads us from the Alps to the Caucasus mountain system in Eurasia, and from there to the Karakorum and then extends up to Sikkim, on the border with Bhutan, Tibet and Nepal. From the Himalayan to African peaks, on Ruwenzori [...], and again in the American West of large spaces, inside the Yosemite National Park in California, to finally descend to South America and end up in the Peruvian Andes.

Filippo Maggia, curator of the exhibition

Friday 24 March 2023 at 11:00 , Santa Giulia Auditorium, Via Piamarta 4, Brescia

Press conference and opening of the exhibition Vittorio Sella, Martin Chambi, Ansel Adams, Axel Hütte. Light of the Mountain

Speakers:

Emilio Del Bono, Mayor

Laura Castelletti, Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Brescia

Francesca Bazoli, President of the Brescia Museums Foundation

Massimo Vitta Zelman, President of Skira

Renato Corsini, curator of the Brescia Photo Festival

Filippo Maggia, curator of the exhibition

Angelica Sella, President of the Sella Foundation

Roberto Chambi, President of the Martin Chambi Association

In the presence of photographer Axel Hütte

The exhibition will open to the public from 2.30pm to 6.00pm (last admission at 5.15pm)

Free and free event subject to availability of seats.

Friday 24 March 2023 at 5.30 pm , White Room, Via Musei 81/b, Brescia

Conference to present the work of Martin Chambi

by the Martin Chambi Association

Afterwards, conference participants will be able to visit the exhibition free of charge.

Event by reservation.