From 22 July to 20 September 2015, MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma) is hosting a photographic exhibition under the title “Mediterranean Darkness”. Author of the works on show is Francesco Francaviglia, one of the most interesting photographer in the current Italian panorama, winner of the FIAF 2014 award and guest last year at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, which for the first time, with Francaviglia’s “Le Donne del Digiuno” (“Women of Fast”), opened the door to a solo photographic exhibition.
After “Le Donne del Digiuno”, in memory of the mafia massacres of Capaci and Via D’Amelio, obtaining numerous acknowledgements as well as a great acclaim from audiences and critics, his new work “Mediterranean Darkness”, exclusive for MACRO, picks up the baton with a series of portraits of “Gente di Palestina, Migranti e Donne del Digiuno” (“People from Palestine, Migrants and Women of Fast”), to tell through the faces and the darkness surrounding them the thousand irreconcilable contradictions of peoples overlooking the same sea: the Mediterranean, by now witness to huge atrocities and nevertheless unavoidable place of salvation.
On occasion of the exhibition, promoted by Rome’s Division for Culture and Tourism – Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and organised by Association Officina Blu, with the support of Associazione Officine Fotografiche Roma and IED Firenze, publisher BAM (Bottega Antonio Manta) publishes as limited and numbered edition the book Francesco Francaviglia Mediterranean Darkness, also containing an unreleased FineArt print, signed by the author, and the QR code for free download of the exhibit’s sound project. The book, curated by Franca Imbergamo, Assistant National Attorney, includes texts by: Luisa Morgantini, Vice-president of the European Parliament; Salvo Palazzolo, reporter of La Repubblica; Lirio Abbate, reporter of L’Espresso; Augusto Pieroni, historian and critic of contemporary art and photographer Mustafa Sabbagh.
The book, available within the MACRO bookshop, can be reserved by francescofrancaviglia.com.
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