The rooms of the Viscontea Tower will host the photographic exhibition "Elio Luxardo and the cinema" from 25 June to 31 July.

The exhibition, promoted by the Municipality of Lecco , SiMUL - Lecco Urban Museum System and 3M Foundation , celebrates the artist known for being the photographer of the divas and stars of Cinecittà between the fifties and sixties.

Elio Luxardo established himself as an author of documentaries, learning a lot from his father as a photographer. When, in 1932, he moved to Rome, he enrolled in the Experimental Center of Cinematography with the dream of becoming a director. Intolerant of discipline, however, he leaves school to enter the studio of the photographer Sem Bosch and almost immediately takes over his activity, quickly establishing himself as a portraitist . In his atelier in via del Tritone 197 Luxardo experiments with a particular use of lights that will prove to be highly innovative for the world of photography , but which in reality the author had learned on film sets, applying a brightness system that enhanced faces and made them particularly plastic. This is how Luxardo brings out the characteristics of each of his subjects - from the gaze, to the posture, to the smile - and prefers shots in which the face or body occupies the space diagonally , so as to convey a sense of plasticity . And it is thanks to this capacity for synthesis in the search for beauty that Luxardo's portraits of cinema retain their very current classicism.