Trieste, the photographic exhibition “The Black and White Mosaic”.
Aset up at Trieste, in the suggestive and central "frame" of Sartorio Civic Museum (Largo Pope John XXIII, 1), in the name of collaboration between the Municipalitiesi of Trieste e Spilimbergo, CRAF (Photography Research and Archiving Centre) e the Friuli Mosaic School of Spilimbergo, was inauguratesta and officially presented Thursday 1 December. La photographic exhibition "The Mosaic in black and white" an exhibition that investigates and retraces the daily life of mosaics and mosaic artists, in an art that becomes culture. The exhibition consists of forty original photographs by the author (Antonio Baldini, Angelo Borghesan, Mario Cresci, Francesco Nonino, Francesco Radino, Roberto Salbitani, Carl Shubert, Stephen Shore e Olga Zamperiolo) made between the 20s and the 90s, of property of the CRAF photographic archive.
Speakers at the opening included, among others:Councilor for Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Trieste, Giorgio Rossi e the mayor of Spilimbergo. Enrico Sarcinelli with thereActivities Councilor pProductive and Tourism Anna Bidoli and the director of CRAF Alvise Rampini. "The collaboration with the Municipality of Spilimbergo - said thecouncilor Giorgio Rossi - is part of a wide-ranging exhibition season, conceived and created with a view to valorising the museum heritage of our city and synergy with institutional entities and the cultural realities of our Region".
"We are honored to be guests here at Trieste in this historic museum - highlighted the mayor Enrico Sarcinelli - underlining the value of the exposure that represents a effective combination of mosaic and photography". "The inclusion of the exhibition within the Christmas proposals of the Regional capital city, also with a strong tourist vocation – reiterated thecouncilor Anna Bidoli – and its location in a cultural institute of value and prestige such as the Sartorio Civic Museum, represents for us an important promotional opportunity that is part of the path undertaken with the project "Spilimbergo City of Mosaic“, which aims to enhance the history, craftsmanship linked to art and mosaic technique".
The curator and creator of the exhibition is Silvana Annicchiarico, an internationally renowned architect and former director of the Triennale Design Museum in Milano. The exhibition is structured into four sections, which tell the origins of a technique and a tradition, nature with the stones and the Tagliamento, Aquileia, the fulcrum of ancient mosaic art, the epic of migrant mosaicists throughout the world and the Mosaic School of Friuli, a center of high specialization, which attracts students from many foreign countries, becoming increasingly international.
The selected author's photos represent a mosaic world, made up of people even before pieces of stone, and made up of stories even before art. “Black and White Mosaic” – he recalled Anna Bidoli - "opens the horizons on an artistic, historical and cultural path that goes beyond our borders, to merge with experiences of other times and other territories, in a perspective that has ancient art redesigned in a modern key as its future horizon“. The exhibition, of a traveling nature, has already been hosted in Udine, Pordenone, Lignano Sabbiadoro. After stopping in Trieste, from January it will be hosted in the UNESCO city of Cividale to subsequently arrive in Aquileia and Gorizia, the capital cities of culture.
The exhibition "The Mosaic in black and white” will remain open to Sartorio Civic Museum of Trieste until January 8, with the following hours: Thursday-Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00; Saturday 24 and 31 December from 10.00am to 14.00pm, closed on 25 December 2022 and 1 January 2023, open on Monday 26 December (10am-17pm). Entrance is free.
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