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closed Paolo Pellegrin. An anthology

The show

Curated by Germano Celant

The exhibition stems from an intense two-year work on the photographer's archive and traces through over 150 images, including numerous unpublished and some video contributions, twenty years of his work, from 1998 to 2017. The exhibition represents an opportunity precious to learn about his creative and documentary path and to deepen the themes that animate his work, where the reporter's vision and the artist's visual intensity intertwine and become one.

The path, immersive and engaging, is divided between two extremes: darkness and light .
The initial part is dark. The black color dominates, populated by the story of a suffering humanity: war, tensions, destruction, but also the intimate beauty of the human being in the expression of his deepest emotions. The second part is instead characterized by a luminous space in which images of a nature prevail which, in its majesty and remoteness, seem to remind us of the fragility of the human condition.

This story of the human being, fallen into the dark, is counterbalanced by the immersion in a suddenly bright environment, of an evanescent light where the real data seems to sublimate itself in the whiteness of the Antarctic ice, protagonist of a recent reportage made for the NASA, in the gaze of a young Roma woman, in the power of the elements of nature, in the spirituality and depth of man's ancestral relationship with it, as happens in the bathroom of two young Palestinians in the Dead Sea

The two parts of the itinerary are connected by a passage that projects the visitor behind the scenes of Pellegrin's visual research: drawings, notebooks, notes, small photographs, give an account of the complexity of a creative process that is based on research, knowledge and preparation. Pellegrin considers photography as a language made up of rules and instinct at the same time. It finds its roots in years of study around the image, vision, gaze: all aspects that the photographer has trained since the beginning of his work through his interest in literature, art history, architecture. , cinema and, of course, the work of great photographers.

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