Opened in the Sala delle Colonne of CSAC the photographic exhibition “Planimetria Naturali: Ghirri, Giacomelli, Guerzoni, Archivio”, curated by Paolo Barbaro and Margherita Zazzero.

Starting from the knot between nature and artifice, controlled figurative action and the form of the uncontrollable or the unconscious, a small sample of works from the CSAC archives is presented with the common suggestion of the conventional representation of territory, the plan, the map, matter and time that transforms. The exhibition will feature works by Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Ghirri, two very different and in many ways opposing researches on the landscape, so much so that they appear as mirror images, but with sometimes coinciding outcomes. These parts of important photographic research are juxtaposed with the work ‘The Forgotten Wall’ that Franco Guerzoni donated to the CSAC in 2004, on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to him.

Completing the exhibition are digitised images taken from gelatin bromide glass negative plates from the Villani and Publifoto archives, which, due to their state of preservation, had been piled up waiting to be disposed of; these materials, usually considered as -scrap-, were recovered by the CSAC together with the rest of the respective archives.

“Planimetrie naturali”

Curated by Paolo Barbaro and Margherita Zazzero

Opening: Saturday 11 May, 5 pm
Exhibition opening: 11 May to 9 June 2024
Where: CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione
Abbazia di Valserena
Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, 43122 Parma