Fotografia europea Reggio Emilia 2007

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Ferdinando Scianna

PALAZZO CASOTTI
27 April - 10 June 2007

“I’M LOOKING YOU IN THE EYES, CITY”

Francia 1984 - Su un treno per Vichy “I come from the rough world of Sicily. A rustic world, but not a rural environment. In short, Bagheria was and still is a small town. What’s more, it is only less than 15 kilometres away from Palermo, which is a city, a capital in its own way. But since I left Sicily at the age of 23 – now 40 years ago – I have always lived in big cities. In Milan, and then in Paris for ten years. So most of my life, and almost all of my life story as a photographer, has been spent in a city and in the logic of cities. I feel like a city animal. Nevertheless, I think - I know - I am experiencing and above all looking at the cities where I live and work with a mind and with eyes greatly affected by my childhood and early youth spent in that rustic world. This mixture has shaped my idea of Europe. The 50 photographs displayed in Reggio Emilia are fragments taken from jobs that I have done in several European cities, above all of chance encounters with instants of my life in these cities that forced me to photograph them. The title I chose is a homage to Alberto Savinio and to that book of his on Milan that is one of the most beautiful I know of amongst many dedicated to a city I have read: “I Listen to Your Heart, City”. So in my case it is inevitably: “I’m Looking You in the Eyes, City”.

Information:
Palazzo Casotti
p.za Casotti – Reggio Emilia
Hours
Opening 27.4.2007 h. 18. From April 28th thru May 5th from 10-23; from may 6th thru June 10th tues-fri 18-23, sat-sun. 10-23.
Tickets
Entrance ticket to all exhibitions: 10€ (7€ reduction for students, TCI, CTS, AIB and Palazzo Magnani visitors; free entrance for children younger than 12, schools, disabled people and their guide, ICOM members).