CARBONE 100 - The tales of a lifetime. Photographs from 1954 to 1990., Exhibition National Gallery of Cosenza, Cosenza

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CARBONE 100 - The tales of a lifetime. Photographs from 1954 to 1990.:

Art, artists, and performance

From 9 November to 15 December 2024

National Gallery of Cosenza

Via Gian Vincenzo Gravina, Cosenza

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CARBONE 100 The stories of a lifetime. Photographs from 1954 to 1990
National Gallery of Cosenza from November 9 to December 15, 2024: Art, artists, and performance
Project by Marilena Sirangelo and Archive Mario Carbone and Elisa Magri. Curated by Martina Cavallarin. Curatorial assistants Antonio Caruso and Rossella Ciciarelli. The project is in collaboration with National Gallery of Cosenza, Historical Library of the Classical Lyceum B. Telesio of Cosenza, RiMuseum – University of Calabria, MAON – Rende
From November 9 to December 15, 2024, the National Gallery of Cosenza hosts the prestigious first stage of CARBONE 100 - The stories of a lifetime. Photographs from 1954 to 1990, a project conceived by project manager Marilena Sirangelo and Archive Mario Carbone and Elisa Magri, curated by Martina Cavallarin. Mario Carbone, born in San Sosti, Cosenza, in 1924, is one of the most representative figures of Italian photography and documentary cinema of the 20th century, winner of prestigious awards, including the San Marco Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Ribbon for best black and white photography. His lens captured with sensitivity and acumen the great social and artistic changes of the post-war period, narrating the Italian reality through images with a gaze that managed to combine visual testimony with social analysis. The National Gallery of Cosenza welcomes the central core of this research titled Art, artists, and performance. The exhibition focuses on photographs and documentaries that tell the story of Carbone's relationship with artists and performers who have marked the changing artistic landscape of the 20th century. Among the most significant works are the documentation of the performances held on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of Nouveau Réalisme in Milan in 1970 and the International Performance Week in Bologna in 1977, including the iconic Imponderabilia by Abramović and Ulay. The precious testimony left by Mario Carbone begins with a series of photographs and videos taken during the First International Performance Week, held from June 1st to 6th, 1977 at the Modern Art Gallery in Bologna, an epochal event that introduced new forms of interaction between body, audience, and space. Carbone's documentation explores the tension between live action and recording, with shots and footage that amplify the performative experience of the 49 artists involved. The journey through the rooms of the National Gallery of Cosenza continues with a focus on the iconic action of Marina Abramović and Ulay, Imponderabilia. The two artists, at the time a couple in life and art, naked, positioned on either side of the entrance to the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna. The audience, to access the Museum, is invited to pass between their bodies, thus generating a direct and provocative experience of physical contact and emotional confrontation. Challenging the conventions that confine nudity to separate and idealized spaces, Abramović and Ulay bring it into reality, creating a direct and forced interaction with corporeality. The exhibition presents the short film directed by Carbone and a selection of photographic shots that, documenting the performance, immortalize these moments of intense interaction between the public and the artist. After the journey through the photographs documenting the Performance Week, in a subsequent room the visitor can come into contact with another phenomenon that marked an important transition in the international artistic scene of the 20th century, namely the Tenth Anniversary of Nouveau Réalisme – Milan, 1970. Organized by the French critic Pierre Restany and the director of the Apollinaire Gallery, Guido Le Noci, the event marks both the peak and the symbolic "end" of a movement that, with its practice of reappropriating reality, had introduced a new vision of art. With the Nouveaux Réalistes, in fact, the work of "imitation" becomes a direct "presentation" of the everyday, often through the use of common materials and objects, usually discarded by consumer society. CARBONE 100 The stories of a lifetime. Photographs from 1954 to 1990 is enriched by subsequent exhibitions at the Classical Lyceum B. Telesio, RiMuseum - University of Calabria, and MAON Museum of Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. A journey through southern Italy seen through images depicting its rituals and traditions is the experience that can be had by visiting the RiMuseum of the University of Calabria, which exhibits photos of great anthropological value, and the Historical Library of the Classical Lyceum B. Telesio. Here, the shots from the stay in Lucania made with Carlo Levi depict the places where Christ Stopped at Eboli. MAON hosts a study day on resilience and the link between art and rebirth, with a focus on photographs dedicated to the 1968 Belice earthquake and subsequent reconstruction, and the creation in Gibellina in 1990 of the installation The Mountain of Salt by Mimmo Paladino.

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