Vernissage 12/06/2020 h 19.00 – Finissage 05/072020 h 19.00
SSC - SAN SEBASTIANO CONTEMPORARY
PALAZZOLO ACREIDE - SYRACUSE
Address: Via San Sebastiano 30
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In the headquarters of the new San Sebastiano Contemporary art gallery, this exhibition initiates an eccentric recognition of what are commonly believed to be the representatives of excellence among Sicilian photographers.
Great Sicilian photographers are present almost obsessively in any exhibition, in Sicily, in the Peninsula and also abroad: always those, albeit very good, but possible to count on the fingers of one hand. This exhibition travel a different path.
The place. Of course, there would be centers traditionally appointed to carry out this role of researching and supporting new talent on the island, but their administrations do not seem so motivated to do so. A Palazzolo Acreide now The beautiful liberty building of San Sebastiano Contemporary consisting of two white and ocher gallery rooms (on the ground and first floors) as well as a project room in the basement is in the running to remedy
8 photographers + 1 engineer. The selection of artists made by involves trespassing in areas that go beyond institutionally understood art photography: reportage, still photos, even underwater photography ... beyond and an intervention that is halfway between science and art: in fact it foresees the digital soundproofing of the image operated by a sound engineer
According to the curator of the exhibition Aldo Premoli: “... there are other Sicilians who deserve to be looked at carefully or rediscovered. Some of them already known in this exhibition reveal an unprecedented side of their work, for others on a surprising absolute debut ... "
On display works by: SALVO ALIBRIO - FRANCESCO BELLINA - DAVIDE BRAMANTE - FRANCA CENTARO - LOREDANA IURIANELLO - ANTONIO PARRINELLO - MICHELE SPADARO - ROSSANA TAORMINA - TURI RAPISARDA