Effect Earth, the title of European Photography 2015, is an invitation to reflect on our planet, too often put in danger. On the one hand the difficult relationship between man and nature and other land that is life and the primary source of nutrition.
When this is told through images, and peppered with stories that trace the history of man, behold, the land tells a lot about our life on earth.
The tenth edition of one of the most interesting photography festivals in Italy (from 15 May to 26 July), taking place in Reggio Emilia, is inspired by the theme of the year who leads Expo. Feeding the planet, through the visual pathways. “What new geography we can now deliver the photograph? There is still a contrast between nature and artifice? Between memory and new, between tradition and the future? New places, new ways of representing, new imagery and new manipulations of the image not only open to new perspectives but also to a different view of the past, “write the organizers of European Photography, which this year have chosen to present many great authors on the international scene.
Olivo Barbieri will accompany the spectators through the dreamlike and technology of its cities, bathed by an exasperated artificial light. Joan Fontcuberta definitely goes in another direction. The Spanish artist has a goal nearly teaching: “Teaching to the public or at least induce him to react critically to the truth proposed by a photograph. A photograph that wants to free itself from the burden of falsification, manipulation, fictional narrative that to some extent rests on photographic images, “he explains in an interview. In Reggio Emilia presents Gastropoda, a series of images “corroded” by the Secret snails and fauna, a careful cataloging of various animal species.
The Dutch artist Erik Kessels , is present with two exhibitions: Unfinished father who, through the restoration of an old Fiat “Topolino” celebrates the artist’s father but also the ‘incompleteness of man as a finite being. “While the film tell us about the final linear, often happy, the truth is that instead everything stops abruptly, almost in half. No matter how much we work to make careful plans and what we try to carry them out with precision, there is no guarantee that their successful as we hoped, “writes Kessels.
Still Thomas Ruff with his latest project Jpeg made huge mosaic of pixels, in which it is hard to decipher the subject. An experiment aesthetic counter that still does demonstrate the inability of photography to represent reality. Stephen Gill has Hackney Flower, an overlap of flowers, seeds, fruits on photographs taken in the village of Hackney London. To leave then decompose.
So even the ephemeral, the decadent, the unfinished theme of the festival is Emilia. Blame also the technology and especially of nuclear energy, which has weakened the planet, as it seems to suggest Jules Spinatsch.
An interesting and provocative exhibition is notable: the collective No Man Nature (with works by Darren Almond, Enrico Bedolo, Ricardo Cases, Pierluigi Fresia, Stephen Gill, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia, Mishka Henner, Amedeo Martegani, Richard Mosse, Thomas Ruff, Batia Suter, Carlo Valsecchi, Helmut Völter) that “raises the issues of nature without man and man without nature, subjecting heuristically reflection from its outer fringe. These margins do not indicate only the most unexplored, the unknown, the invisible, the unimaginable, but the very possibility of the existence of a world with no more man and, on the other hand, the invention by man of a world that no longer refers to nature, “write the editors Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini . In Reggio Emilia there is room for everyone, even for emerging located in 327 exhibitions of the circuit OFF.
The festival will be opened from Friday 15 to Sunday, May 17, the exhibition will remain open until July 26.
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