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Matino: Red Ronnie inaugurates his photography exhibition

Appointment at the Foscolo art gallery and restaurant, in via Foscolo 16

Matino (LE): Red Ronnie inaugurates his photography exhibition.

Ribbon cutting July 28th, 2023 20, of "Red Ronnie and Photography”, photographic exhibition of the artist, hosted by the Foscolo rooms, restaurant and art gallery in the historic heart of Matino (The). He will be right the author of the shots, Red Ronnie, to inaugurate the exhibition can be visited from 28 July to August every day, from Tuesday to Sunday starting from 19pm, taking the opportunity to meet journalists, visitors and enthusiasts.

La exceptional gallery chosen to host the exhibition is not a random place. The Foscolo in fact it was born in historic center of Matino in December 2018, from an idea by Marta Carichino and Luca Pavia. The first is passionate about good food, and the second is an important contemporary art gallery owner, who together imagine a place that combines the good, that is, a Apulian cuisine interpreted in a refined and contemporary key from the young and talented Chef Francesco D'Aprile, to the beautiful, a real art gallery contemporary which showcases wonderful works by the most important Italian masters.

Il outcome is a pleasant place, relaxing, in which there is a strong feeling of feeling at home, surrounded by beauty and pampered by good food. Together with the works of art on display, throughout the summer it will therefore be possible to get to know the well-known music critic's passion for live shots up close.

Matino (LE): Red Ronnie inaugura la sua mostra fotografica

“Photography was my first passion and Minolta my little gem. No courses, just instinct. I also set up a darkroom where I printed black and white photos. The first subjects: my girlfriend, car racing and everything that intrigued me.
I won the first two photography competitions I participated in and, due to typically youthful arrogance, I never did any more. They had established that I was the best anyway.

Then the passion for music took me to concerts. Getting a pass has never been a problem for me.
When I started collaborating with the monthly Popster, photography was very important. It was a glossy magazine, the finest in Europe. We were in the middle of the punk era. I provided everything: photos, article and interview. For this reason alone they published articles on artists who were then unknown, because the photos were beautiful.
Then in 1980 I bought my first camera and, with the start of my television programs in 1983, I slowed down my time spent on photography.
Thousands of slides were forgotten in their little yellow boxes.
With the advent of digital photography I switched from Canon to Nikon. I often walked around with a video camera and camera slung over my shoulder. When I captured some interesting situation, I turned off the recording and took the photo.
It was Cristiano Ragni, from Glance Art Studio, who saw some of my photos and told me that they were very beautiful. So I digitized some of them, even if the treasure trove of all the ones I've made is still unexplored.

An example? Looking at Vasco Rossi's slides I was attracted by a photo that was a little shaky but which I liked. My director, Filippo Baietti, entered my studio, saw the photo on the computer and immediately ran to get Vasco Rossi's album “Bollicine”, the most important album in the history of Italian rock. My photo was the one in the collage on the cover. But I didn't know it.
Back then, at the beginning of 1983 and before the boom of “Vita spericolata”, very few photographed Vasco. So Guido Elmi, its producer, asked me for some photos for the cover. I had given him a couple of boxes of slides. When he returned them to me he told me that he had put a photo of me of Vasco at the Roxy Bar in the inner envelope (the only time he went there because I brought it to him). But he hadn't told me that he had also used one for the cover. Only after almost 40 years did I realize it. Ah, by the way, the photo on the cover of Vasco's “Okay, okay like this” is also mine.

The success of my television programs gave me the opportunity to hang out with the most important musical stars and be able to photograph them from a privileged point of view.
Today, with cell phones, everyone takes photos. Already with digital the choice of quality and the right time to shoot no longer existed. When you had a roll of 36 slides, you thought about it and took care of the image before shooting. Furthermore, everyone keeps photos inside their smartphones and looks at them on a small screen. Nobody prints them to hang on the walls. For all these reasons, I too am starting to convince myself that the photos I have taken, when seen framed, are really beautiful."

These words Red Ronnie about the birth of his passion for photography.

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