Venice:
Casa dei Tre Oci – Gianni Berengo Gardin exhibition. The Casa dei Tre Oci (which translates as the house of the three eyes) on the Giudecca Island
presents a world premier retrospective of one of the greatest Italian
photographers: Gianni Berengo Gardin,
on show until May 12. It is the most
complete anthological exhibition of the master showing 130 photos, and is curated
by Denis Curti.
Above:
The Casa dei Tre Oci is a splendid example of early 20th-century Venetian
architecture, which was designed by the artist Mario De Maria (Marius Pictor)
and built in 1913. Intended as a
studio-house by Mario, it was his son Astolfo, a painter like his father, who
actually lived in it. Always a place of artistic and cultural production, a
center for meetings and debates, a studio for artists taking part in the
Biennale and a welcoming space for intellectuals visiting Venice, it remained
active and lively until the end of the 1980s.
The Casa dei Tre Oci became a public exhibition space in 2012 with
particular attention to photography.
Gianni
Berengo Gardin exhibition. Gianni Berengo Gardin considers this exhibition, the
most representative of his career. The
analogical prints on display trace his work as a reporter and are the mirror of
an artist who has made ethics his banner. He wanted to look back through all
his production: the past exhibitions,
the books (more than 200) the newspapers and the magazines to reread everything
through the eyes of the present, to select those pictures that would best
recount his story, a synthesis of his journey as a photographer, from his debut
to the last picture taken with a digital camera, of a young couple kissing in
the street.
Above:
The maestro with his Leica signing copies of the catalogue.
Gianni
Berengo Gardin - Great Britain, 1977
Fabio
Achilli director of the Fondazione di Venezia who owns, together with Polymnia
Venezia the Casa dei Tre Oci and the curator of the exhibition Denis Curti.
Gianni
Berengo Gardin – Yugoslavia 1979
Contrasto’s editorial director
Alessandra Mauro. The exhibition was produced by Civita Tre Venezie and
Contrasto with the support of Veneto Banca and the Regione Veneto.
Two
great photographer meet up for a chat; Manfredi Bellati congratulates Gianni
Berengo Gardin on the exhibition. Whilst photographer Alexandre Veron,
documents the occasion.
photograph
by manfredi bellati
Gianni
Berengo Gardin exhibition
Gianni Berengo Gardin – Milano 1987
Berengo Gardin, an
observant narrator of everyday life, in all its multiple aspects and its
evolution, he is an artist who has immortalized the history of Italy in more
than a million shots. Born in the 1940s,
he prefers black and white, not only for generational reasons, but because
‘color distracts the photographer and the observer’.
Art press officer Valeria Regazzoni and artist Liselotte
Hohs
Gianni
Berengo Gardin exhibition
Author Antonio Marazzi
Gianni
Berengo Gardin – Tuscany 1978
The photographer, an enthusiasm for the
street, for ordinary people met by chance, surprising embraces stolen in
everyday life: in every photo, each one of us finds a little of himself, his
story, his memories. His photos are capable of evoking simple and precious
life; they cross through fields and squares, recount the story and sinuous
paths of life. They are archetypes of the Italian imagination; they touch us
and immediately become familiar. People, objects, close-ups, historical
monuments. Tangible, never abstract images, but above all real images.
Photograph
by manfredi bellati
An
honored guest waits patiently
Francesca
Borsato
The ‘backdrop”
of view from the Casa dei Tre Oci
