The exhibition “Come d’incanto” presents the work of a series of important international contemporary photographers in dialogue with emerging authors who pose a series of topical issues around the feeling of amazement to which this edition of the Festival is dedicated.
How is the world we live in equipping itself to respond, in the meantime also reducing the chaos of the black swan on duty, to the inexhaustible demand for places to live, stimulating sociability, luminous vivacity and widespread beauty? How much does the environment around us influence, anthropic contexts, physical and virtual spaces, on our sense of happiness, on our ability to daydream, to love and amaze ourselves?
The collective examines photography as an effective tool to represent and face the issues and challenges that the future faces us, no longer subject to the mere terms of resistance and survival, re-inventing the earthly and celestial space through the eyes of the artists, capable of raising the visitor towards a universe where real life and imaginative world are one.
The works, coming from three prestigious Italian collections, evoke or re-elaborate the imminent needs for change, respect and trust; they investigate extreme dimensions, places suspended between good and evil, fantastic landscapes, overexposed bodily presences; they open glimmers of light in real or illusory spaces, governed by new standards of beauty, by the ability to live the enchantment and let oneself go to the amazed rediscovery of reality.
Authors: Nobuyoshi Araki, Guido Argentini, Sergia Avveduti, Roger Ballen, Simone Bergantini, Matthew Brandt, Jonny Briggs, Elina Brotherus, Claudia Calegari, Filippo Cavalli, Corrado Dalcò, Gabriele De Santis, Irene Fenara, Franco Fontana, Luke Fowler, Luigi Ghirri , Ralph, Gibson Soham Gupta, Anne Imhof, Luca Lupi, Herr Merzi, Yasumasa Morimura, Wang Ningde, Masao Yamamoto, Yang Yongliang, Giovanni Stefano Rossi, Bettina Rheims, Ruggero Rosfer & Shaokun, Anri Sala, Jan Saudek, Mario Schifano, Malick Sidibé, Sissi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Lamberto Teotino, Arthur Tress, Francesca Woodman.
Curated by Carlo Sala
