Alessandro Rizzi

Newspaper sheets lying on the floor, flashes of glass windows lit up at night in Tokyo, embroidered gestures enfolded in a fluctuating East.
A sud del Confine a Ovest del sole (South of the border, West of the Sun) introduces Alessandro Rizzi's new investigation into the Japanese universe, echoing Haruki Murakami's novel by the same name.
Like a play of shadows unveiling things, the author recognizes icons of an ancient tradition in contemporary Japanese life, and in everyday gestures he sees an elegance that suggests suspension, life for life, the erstwhile philosophy and representation of the pictorial world of Ukyo-e.
Rizzi's work conveys a perception of Tokyo that is sometimes dreamlike, while at other times it is so strongly contemporary and material as to constitute the very plot of the stories unfolding within it.
Nature and city are presented not only as backdrops to narrate the presence of men, but as autonomous, living entities, so powerful as to create and mould the materials through which we imagine ourselves and hold dialogues every day.
 

Alessandro Rizzi was born near Reggio Emilia in the December at 1973. Currently he lives between Italy and China. Afterwards, he starts philosophical studies at Bologna University and photographic studies in Milan e Paris. He travels through Lebanon on behalf of the Council of UE. In June of 2001 he meets Grazia Neri.
In 2002 won Prize 3M Italy as the best Italian photographer under 30.
He worked on a project about contemporary life in New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Havana, Berlin, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
His take photograph on assignment for Time Magazine, The Observer Magazine, Sunday Telegraph, Time Asia, Marie Claire, D La Repubblica delle Donne, 24 Magazine.
In September 2006 Damiani Editore published his first book “Vision from Another world“.
He has been invited for some lecture at the Istitute Center of Photography in New York and at the University of Teramo (2005/2009).
He is represented by Blob Creative Group in Italy, Gallery Stock and Getty Images for the international projects.
 

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Spazio Corso Garibaldi
Corso Garibaldi 7 - Reggio Emilia
Tel. 0522 451152, 0522 456249, 0522 456635, 0522 456448
Single ticket for all exhibitions 10€. Concessions 7€

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7th May from 19.00 to 24.00; 8th - 9th May from 10.00 to 23.00
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