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MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
Luigi Ghirri, Sabbioneta, 1989
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Lorenza Bravetta
Giovanna Calvenzi
Chiara Capodici
Chiara Capodici works in the photography field since 2005. In 2006-2008 is Fotografia- festival internazionale di Roma artistic director assistant. From 2009 to 2016, as part of 3/3, she developed photography projects focussing above all on producing and curating photobooks and on exhibitions and workshops in Italy and abroad with a special attection to the publishing world. In January 2017 she opened Leporello, a bookshop mainly devoted to photobooks.
Emilio D’Itri
Giovanni Fiorentino
Laura Gasparini
Laura Gasparini is the curator of the Photographic Library of the Panizzi Library and she is member of the scientific staff of the European Photography Festival in Reggio Emilia and she is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
She is author of several essays on historical and contemporary photography. Among the latest: Un progetto. Un’idea. Luigi Ghirri curatore with Q. Bajac, Luigi Ghirri. Pensare per immagini, with F. Fabiani and G. Sergio, Walker Evans.Italia, 2016 and Paul Strand and Cesare Zavattini, Un paese. History and Legacy, 2017.
Margherita Guccione
Francesco Jodice
Roberto Koch
Armin Linke
Armin Linke was born in 1966 and lives in Berlin. He is a artist working with photography, combining different mediums to blur the border between fiction and reality. He is working on an ongoing archive on human activity and the most varied natural and manmade landscapes. His multimedia Installation about the contemporary Alpine landscape was awarded at the 9th Architecture Venice Biennale and at the Graz Architecture Film Festival. He is guest professor at the HfG Karlsruhe, at the IUAV Arts and Design University in Venice and Research Affiliate at MIT Visual Arts Program Cambridge.
Laura Moro
Pietro Paolini
Pietro Paolini was born in Florence in 1981. He graduated from the three years course at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence in 2005. From 2004 started his interest for the South American reality, focusing on the new socialist countries, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. In 2006 he founded with other four photographers the TerraProject collective, which deals with social and geographical issues in Italy through collective projects of documentary photography. His photographs have been exhibited in Italy and abroad. He contributed as a freelance with many Italian and international magazines. In 2012 his work “Bolivianas” won a prize at World Press Photo – Daily life 2nd prize stories. In 2013 was awarded the M.Pesaresi prize for contemporary photography.
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, who was born in Rome in 1968, is an art critic and curator and, since May 2016, he has been Director of MAXXI Art, National Museum of the 21st century Arts. From 2011 to 2013 he was Director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. From 1998 to 2003 he was responsible for the contemporary art program of Adriano Olivetti Foundation, of which he was appointed Director from 2003 to 2007. In 2007 and 2008 he worked as curator at the Hangar Bicocca Foundation of Milan. He wrote many essays and publications on art, the latest of which is Italia in opera, La nostra identità attraverso le arti visive edito da Bollati Boringhieri (2011). He curated the Italian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale (2013)
Luca Santese
Luca Santese (1985) is an Italian photographer. He was born and grew up in Milan area. He studied at Monza’s Art institute and at the Fine Arts Academy of Brera in Milan. While attending academy he worked like assistant in Alex Majoli’s studio. In 2008 he launches and became a member of Cesura collective: an independent group of photographers united in intend to work in photojournalism, documentary photography and arstist research. In 2009 he won Photolucida Critical Mass International new talent photographers Award. In 2010 he was selected by the World Press Photo prize with the project “Detroit 2009-2010” and in the same year he exposed for the first time the project “Found Photos in Detroit” at Le Bal Space of Paris, to which followed exhibitions at Kulturhuset of Stockholm, at the OGR of Turin and at the MoCP of Chicago and numerous further exhibitions in many countries in the world. In 2012, Found Photos in Detroit book was published. This book has collected seven nominations as “the best photographic book of the year” and in 2014 was put in the volume “Photobook: A History Vol: III, edited by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Parr and Badger consider the book as one of 200 best books of photography post world world two. His work has been published in numerous international magazines and His projects have been exhibited in Europe, Asia and United States.
Roberta Valtorta
Roberta Valtorta (Milan, 1952), historian and critic of photography, curated the project Archivio dello spazio (Province of Milan), collaborated in building the Region Lombardy photo-archives, designed the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo-Milan, of which she was the scientific director until 2015. She taught in the universities of Udine, Rome, Milan and has taught at Centro Bauer, Milan, since 1984. She curated many exhibitions in Italy and Europe and published several books about photography as a cultural asset, as art, as a land reading tool.
Francesco Zanot
Curator of Camera – Centro Italiano di Fotografia, Turin, Francesco Zanot has worked on exhibitions and publications with many international photographers. In recent years he has curated books dedicated to artists such as Mark Cohen, Guido Guidi, Olivo Barbieri, Luigi Ghirri, Takashi Homma, Linda Fregni Nagler, Francesco Jodice, Boris Mikhailov, as well as Erik Kessels’s last retrospective The Many Lives. Together with Alec Soth, he is the author of the essay Ping Pong Conversations. Director of the Master in Photography organised by the NABA, Milan, he has given classes and lectures in numerous academic institutions, among them the Columbia University, New York, ECAL, Lausanne, and IUAV, Venice. He curated the inaugural exhibition Give Me Yesterday at Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan, which opened to the public in 2016
A workshop devoted to photography and its use as an instrument of narration.
How does one put together an exhibition or publishing project with images? How does the historiographical account of photography take form? What strategies can be adopted to valorize it an institutional and private level? How do exhibitions and festivals affect its diffusion?
Five days that offer a transverse overview of the world of photography through direct contact with professionals and diverse experiences and realities: from public and private interlocutors to an investigation of the exhibition system and the international festivals, through to the narrative possibilities offered by photographic books and publishing.
Structured over five days, the course features and opening conference with the special participation of Amin Linke, around 20 seminars and case studies and a workshop with Francesco Jodice, in which the participants will be involved directly.
THE LECTURERS INCLUDE
Lorenza Bravetta, Giovanna Calvenzi, Chiara Capodici, Laura Gasparini, Margherita Guccione, Emilio D’Itri – Officine fotografiche, Giovanni Fiorentino – SISF, Francesco Jodice, Roberto Koch, Armin Linke, Mario Peliti, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Terraproject, Roberta Valtorta, Francesco Zanot.
WHEN
The training course and the workshop will be held at the museum from Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 October 2017, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
WHO IS IT FOR?
The course is aimed at those new to the sector as well as established experts and professionals.
The course will be run with a minimum of 15 participants and a maximum of 30.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
The fee for each individual participant is €490.00 (travel and board and lodging costs are at participants’ expense).
Course fees for members of the SISF (Italian Society for Photographic Studies) are €470.00.
ENROLLMENT
In order to apply for this MAXXI advanced course please complete the form: the deadline has been extended to 5 October. MAXXI will select the participants on the basis of their curricula by 6 October. Course fees are to be paid by 10 October.
INTERNSHIP
MAXXI reserves the possibility of selecting a participant for a museum internship of three months.
SCARICA IL PROGRAMMA COMPLETO >
For further information please write to formazione@fondazionemaxxi.it
Lorenza Bravetta
Giovanna Calvenzi
Chiara Capodici
Emilio D’Itri
Giovanni Fiorentino
Laura Gasparini
Margherita Guccione
Francesco Jodice
Roberto Koch
Armin Linke
Laura Moro
Pietro Paolini
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Luca Santese
Roberta Valtorta
Francesco Zanot