MARCELLO GRASSI
Born in Reggio Emilia in 1960, he has been interested in photography since he was a small boy. After visiting several exhibitions scheduled for Anno degli Etruschi in 1985, he designed and executed a work of “visual excavation” in the places, cities and necropolises of the Etruscan civilisation (in Emilia Romagna, Latium, Tuscany and Umbria). In 1999, Federico Motta Editore published the book Etruria on the occasion of the exhibition of his photographs at the Musée Reattu of Arles.
In 1992 he was commissioned to photograph the finds of the archaeological collection kept in the Cortile and Galleria dei Marmi dei Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia. It was from this first series of commissioned images that lengthy research on the Anatomia del Tempo started. He conducted his research in museums and archaeological sites in Italy and Europe (Arles, Berlin, Bologna, Brescia, Grosseto, Nice, Parma, Rome, Turin). In 1995 he started a series of photographs – Il Giardino di Borges – on the theme of the relationship between real and unreal, the subject being the collections preserved in the halls of zoological collections of Italian museums (Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Modena, Turin and Museo della Specola of Florence).
He photographed the French city of Arles between 1994 and 1996. In 1997, commissioned by the Musée Archéologique of Nice-Cimiez, he produced a series of photographs of the local site. The province of Reggio Emilia asked him to photograph the Cistercian monastery of Maulbronn in 1998 as part of the cultural exchanges envisaged in the program twinning the province with that of Enzkreis in Germany. In 1999 he started a photography campaign on Palazzo Ducale of Sassuolo that ended in 2002, the year  when he started working with Fabrizio Orsi on a project on Luzzara exactly 50 years after  the book Un Paese by Cesare Zavattini and Paul Strand was published. At the end of 2004 the book Luzzara. Cinquant'anni e più..., published by Skira Editore with a text by Luciano Ligabue, was presented. He has exhibited in one-man shows and collective exhibitions in various cities throughout Europe, where his photographs are kept in museums and institutions.

 

FABRIZIO ORSI
Fabrizio Orsi, February 2, 1961, Reggio Emilia.
He started to study photographic technique at the age of 16. He completed his education, based on artistic studies, at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche of Urbino, where he graduated with full marks in 1986 with the presentation of a photographic monograph on the work of sculptor Pino Castagna as his thesis. Several images of the book are preserved today at the modern art museums of Wiesbaden and Tokyo.
His first one-man show, Gli attimi della scultura, was organised in 1995.
Winner of the Targa d’Oro award for Photography at “Premio Arte 2001” called by Arte magazine.
He was appointed by the Un Paese Foundation of Luzzara to execute the Luzzara project together with Marcello Grassi in 2003. Cinquant’anni e più… published by publishing house Skira in a volume with text by Luciano Ligabue.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 6x9, Galleria Annovi, Sassuolo, province of Modena. Collective exhibition organised by Cond8ttonove.
Uno sguardo sulla città, Spazio Ex Locatelli, Reggio Emilia. Collective exhibition organised by Angela Madesani.
2005 Un arte glocale, Centro Cultural de la Asunción, Albacete E. Collective exhibition organised by Sandro Parmiggiani.
Seven... Everything goes to hell, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo FI. Collective exhibition organised by Maurizio Sciaccaluga.
Luzzara. Cinquant’anni e più..., Museo Nazionale delle Arti Naïves “Cesare Zavattini”, Luzzara RE.
Dopo Coplans, The Travelling Gallery, Milan. Collective exhibition organised by Maria Grazia Torri.
2004 Rostres, Galeria Cànem, Castellon de la Plana E. Collective exhibition.
Lo sguardo contemporaneo Volume 2, In S.Lorenzo 3, Parma. Collective exhibition organised by Marinella Paderni.
Nudi fuori, Ass.Cult. Studio Ercolani, Bologna. Collective exhibition organised by Elisa Mezzetti.
Dinamiche del Volto, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Ducale, Pavullo nel Frignano MO. Collective exhibition organised by Paolo Donini and Daniela Del Moro.
La mistica della seduzione, D406 galleria d’arte contemporanea, Modena. One-man show organised by Marinella Bonaffini.
2003 Tattoo, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantua. Collective exhibition organised by Emma Gravagnuolo.
Specchio, Guidi&Schoen arte contemporanea, Genoa. Collective exhibition organised by Manuela Brevi and Emma Gravagnuolo.
XS, Galleria San Salvatore, Modena. Collective exhibition organised by Luca Beatrice and Norma Mangione.
Sabine Delafon Fabrizio Orsi Attilio Solzi, Galleria ES, Turin. Organised by Luca Beatrice.
2002 Four Ways, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Udine. Collective exhibition organised by Luca Beatrice.
Borderline, Galleria Davide Di Maggio Mudimadue, Berlin D. Organised by Gianluca Ranzi.