From 18 May to 17 June 2022, Singapore residents have the opportunity to do a photographic journey in Italy through the images of Alinari Foundation, the oldest photographic agency in the world.
The photography exhibition ItaliAE, organized by the Embassy of Italy in Singapore, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and with Alinari and Fondazione Alinari as partners, will take place in two venues: Visual Arts Centre (18 May – 15 June 2022, 3-9 pm, 10 Penang Road #01-02, Dhoby Ghaut Green, S238469) and National Library (20 May – 17 June 2022, 12-7 pm, Level 9 Promenade, 100 Victoria Street S188064). The entrance will be free.<\/p>\n
Italy’s Ambassador to Singapore, Mr Mario Andrea Vattani, says: “ItaliAE is an exhibition conceived to convey the beauty and variety of Italy, its landscapes, its creativity, and its people through photography. Singaporeans, who are increasingly showing an appreciation of Italy and its art and culture, will have the opportunity to discover a plural Italy, on which overtime of the gaze of photographers with very different tones, techniques, and styles has fallen, careful to capture the country\u2019s mobile and complex identities, its traditions as well as its subtlest lines of evolution. We invite all the communities in Singapore to visit ItaliAE”.<\/p>\n
A composite anthology of shots \u2013 over 160 images taken from historical and contemporary archives \u2013 retraces a century and a half of history, recreating an ideal gallery of portraits and memories, witnessing the extraordinary vitality of Italian photography. From the Alinari brothers, pioneers and protagonists of an approach to art and communication through images that accompanied the construction of the national identity, to the great masters of twentieth-century Italian photography and contemporary photography. Through the works of over 75 authors, an original visual narrative of our country is built: a story that is at the same time a small compendium of the history of photography, its techniques, and its aims and aesthetic assumptions.<\/p>\n
\u2018ItaliAE\u2019 presents itself as a never-seen-before exhibition project, capable of bringing together, in a sometimes surprising way, the photography of yesterday and today, and techniques very distant in time, from calotype to I-photography, from autochrome of the early twentieth century to very modern Virtual Photography.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is divided into three sections \u2013 Landscapes, Works and Faces -, each providing an ideal historical, artistic, and documentary journey through the modes and genres of photography: a structure that is both simple \u2013 of great impact and immediate communicative power \u2013 and complex, able as it is to illuminate scenarios that are very different in origin and tone.<\/p>\n
The exhibition, created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in collaboration with Fratelli Alinari IDEA Spa, curated by Rita Scartoni and Luca Criscenti, will be presented abroad from 2021 in collaboration with the diplomatic-consular network and with the Italian Institutes of Culture. The images on display largely come from the Alinari Collections, declared by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, in December 2018, \u201cof particularly important historical interest\u201d; These are flanked by a selection of materials taken from archives and studies of the main Italian photographers of the twentieth century \u2013 already established authors as well as young protagonists of ultra-contemporary photography.<\/p>\n
18 May – 15 June 2022 \/ 3-9pm
Visual Arts Centre
10 Penang Road, #01-02
Dhoby Ghaut Green
Singapore 238469<\/p>\n
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20 May – 17 June 2022 \/12-7pm
National Library
Level 9 Promenade
100 Victoria Street Singapore 188064<\/p>\n
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