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The show

From 22 June to 31 October Senigallia Città della Fotografia presents an exhibition by Paolo Ventura, a site specific project created by the artist inspired by the city in the Marches, from which it takes its title, and exhibited here for the first time. About thirty works to discover the poetics of Ventura, a photographer and artist who has been analyzing and studying the urban landscapes on which he builds his original dreamlike and timeless images for over twenty years.

The works on cities and their landscapes are one of the strands addressed by Paolo Ventura's research and poetics, landscapes that are unrecognizable if not sometimes for haggard details, architectures and buildings that are isolated from the context and which serve as a background for the his imaginative reconstructions, recreating what could be ideal Italian views, devoid of characterization yet always familiar and which could be found in any city. It is not the reality that already exists that interests the artist, but the infinite possibilities of being able to create and tell what does not exist.


Also in the past Ventura's research has focused on individual cities, as in the series dedicated to Milan which began in 2021 and is still ongoing, and this new work set in Senigallia fits into this vein. The artist's gaze has focused on less touristy but no less fascinating scenarios of the city: what takes interest for him is not the canonical beauty of the places that uniforms the city views, but rather their contradictions such as the overlapping of styles and eras that often produce an architectural hiatus. Thus we find buildings from the 60s that mix with others from the 70s, hotels on the seafront juxtaposed with fishermen's houses, tollmen's houses and chicken coops. The eye lingers on the stratifications of the landscape without any desire to denounce, but rather with the desire to learn more about the context in order to be able to use and modify it and thus give life to new places that acquire an additional value and vision, almost metaphysical and outside the time.

Paolo Ventura's modus operandi starts from photography on which he then intervenes with acrylic paint, working by subtraction: from the real data recorded by the photographic shot he creates an artificial but at the same time fascinating and timeless scenography.

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Via Fratelli Bandiera, 11
60019 Senigallia

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