Blog Travel Emilia romagna

Art and culture
0

European Photography in Reggio Emilia

Sara Mantovani May 11, 2012
At the start in the seventh edition of European Photography – the photography festival attended by more than 100,000 visitors last year, confirming its leading role in the international photography panorama – will take place once again in Reggio Emilia from May 11 until June 24.The theme of this year’s edition is “Common life. Images for citizenship”. Real life, reality of life, citizenship and participation, real places and symbolic spaces. On schedule there are more than 250 exhibitions which will take place in museums, art galleries, shops, hotels and restaurants. After the initial calendar of events including conferences, workshops, readings, meetings and shows, this exhibition will continue to be accompanied by many side events located in the most fascinating artistic places around Reggio Emilia such as: Chiostri di San Domenico, Chiostri di San Pietro, Spazio Gerra, Palazzo Casotti, and Galleria Parmeggiani. This year the event has obtained the patronage of the European Commission.
Program:
SAN PIETRO CLOISTERS (Via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c)
• Paola De Pietri
• Igor Mukhin
• Costas Ordolis
• Federico Patellani
• Michi Suzuki
• Massimo Vitali
• Objects talk to us
• I, you, we and the others Yael Bartana, Charlotte Ginsborg, Niklas Goldbach, Vlatka Horvat, Julia Kul, Bjørn Melhus
• Like lipstick traces
• Immigration looks
• Eighteentwenty-five special

SAN DOMENICO CLOISTERS (Via Dante Alighieri, 11)
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• I, you, we and the others Sylvie Blocher
PALAZZO CASOTTI (Piazza Casotti)
• Walk on the wild side Ed van der Elsken, Christer Strömholm, Lisetta Carmi, Anders Petersen
PALAZZO DELLA FRUMENTARIA (Via San Pietro Martire, 2)
• Irwin – Time for a new state

CIVIC MUSEUM / PALAZZO SAN FRANCESCO (Via Spallanzani, 1)
• Pierre Bourdieu
• I, you, we and the others Nathalie Djurberg, Jani Ruscica
• Lucio Rossi

PARMEGGIANI GALLERY (Corso Cairoli, 2)
• By women’s side. Between action and …participation
• I, you, we and the others Sislej Xhafa

PARMEGGIANI GALLERY/ INTERIOR 1 (Corso Cairoli, 2)
• Marco Bolognesi
• Seba Kurtis

SPAZIO GERRA (Piazza XXV Aprile, 2)
• Philip Townsend

SYNAGOGUE (Via dell’Aquila, 3/a)
• Peter Bialobrzeski – Urban changing

PANIZZI LIBRARY (Via Farini, 3)
• An idea and a project. Luigi Ghirri
• I, you, we and the others Valerio Rocco Orlando

VILLA ZIRONI (viale Timavo, 18/a corner via della Racchetta)
• Alexa and Irène Brunet

FONDAZIONE PALAZZO MAGNANI (Corso Garibaldi, 29)
• Don McCullin

“LORIS MALAGUZZI” INTERNATIONAL CENTRE (Via Bligny, 1)
• “The participation is an invitation”, Andrea 6 years old

PERFORMANCES
May 11 – piazza San Prospero – 9.30 p.m.
Citizenship
Urban performance with Samuel&Boosta DJ Set from Subsonica’s electronic sounds and images by young photographers
May 12 – piazza Fontanesi – 5.00-7.00 p.m.
Multicultural Rap Day. Music and urban horizons on stage.
Art, music, poetry and youth culture.
May 12 – piazza San Prospero – 7.00 p.m.-midnight
Ready Steady Go, The June and The Substitutes in concert. Conversation between music and photography with journalist Carlo Massarini and photographer Philip Townsend (author of the exhibition Mr. Sixties at Spazio Gerra). James Taylor Quartet, jazz-funk band, in concert.
May 12 – San Pietro Cloisters – midnight
Swinging London Night Just One Wish. Concert-event with composer and sound designer Teho Teardo and cellist Martina Bertoni.

May 13 – piazza Martiri del 7 Luglio – 9.30 p.m.
Photographic X-Off Contest
Photo-show inspired by TV programmes as X-Factor and presented by rapper and dj La Pina. The panel composed of singer and actress Angela Baraldi, journalist, photographer and TV presenter Carlo Massarini and architect Italo Rota will judge the fifteen photographers selected by art critics Elio Grazioli, Gigliola Foschi and Daniele De Luigi among the participants of Off Circuit and Off online. The three names selected by the panel will be then suggested to the public, which will have to declare the winner of the contest.

More info: info@fotografiaeuropea.it

Tagged with: , , , ,

Leave a Comment

Login to your account

Can't remember your Password ?

Register for this site!