Shortlisted for the First Book Award 2016 – a photography prize established by Mack to support emerging photographers – and selected as The Photography Book of the Month in The Observer, the publication Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016 is the result of a one-year photographic research on the Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis carried out by photographer Daniel Castro Garcia and graphic…
The human figure is the favourite and recurrent subject of Francesco Nazardo’s work. Details of the body, in particular. Fragmented and torn to pieces, so that the eye of the viewer is oriented and inevitably voyeuristic. Placed within familiar and fairy atmospheres, his characters perform enigmatic gestures, rather than codified and shared actions. They methodically lead…
Teresa Giannico’s research instills doubt on the documentary value of photography trough a process of reconstruction of reality. Her works are the result of a series of consecutive steps, which shape a clear stratification: the subjects of Lay Out, the series on view at 2016 – On New Italian Photography – once the original pictures from…
Planar Books is a publishing house founded in 2015. It is directed by Antonio Ottomanelli (who was recently appointed among the 2016 Foam Talents) and promoted by Planar, a non-profit organization dedicated to photography, born in Bari by the will of Anna Vasta, Antonio Ottomanelli, Letizia Trulli and Francesco Stelitano. Planar Books promotes photographic and artistic…
Allegra Martin’s work takes inspiration from the photographic tradition of landscape, territory and architecture, and renovates it: her photographs introduce a narrative. They do not tell stories and there is no linearity, however the objects she places within the frame seem to be connected by a plot. Atmospheres are suspended. The temperature, cold. Noir scenarios are…
The Cool Couple is an artistic duo composed of Niccolò Benetton (born in Arzignano, Vicenza, in 1986) and Simone Santilli (born in Portogruaro, Venezia, in 1987). Their work is based on a deep observation of very specific and peculiar phenomena, which originate a series of reflections and considerations of global interest on issues such as…
Alessandro Sambini uses photography and video to create installations that interact with the exhibition space and change its perception. The mechanisms and languages of information, communication and television are the main subjects of his work, which explores the control strategies carried out by broadcasting stations and their effects on consumers. The work presented in 2016…
Martina Corà dedicates her work to the most popular uses and functions of photography in order to investigate its social values and communicative meanings. For the two series featured in 2016 – On New Italian Photography, Quadri Cinesi che si Muovono and Ooooolympics respectively, the artist did not take any photographs, building her projects on…
The following interview is part of a series of conversations with the artists and publishers featured in 2016 – On New Italian Photography, running through September 16 in Viasaterna. BlisterZine is a publishing project aimed at promoting the book as an art object. It is run by NASTYNASTY©, a collective founded in 2008 by Emiliano Biondelli…
In A Failed Entertainment, Alessandro Calabrese reflects on the language of photography. Starting from the web search of his own photographs, his works are the result of a process of accumulation that mimes today’s condition of overexposure to images. At the geometric center of the frame, where the images overlap, a dark, thick and illegible…
Skinnerboox is an independent publishing house founded by Milo Montelli in Jesi (Ancona, Italy) in 2014. Dedicated to contemporary photography and its multiple forms, Skinnerboox has published fourteen books by Italian and international photographers so far, many of which have been selected by photography professionals and magazines among the best photobooks of 2015. We asked…
Metronom, in collaboration with THC architecture Modena, presents a selection of works by Tim Cullmann, winner of the portfolio review during the 2015 edition of Fotopub Festival. The Leitmotiv Issue is a complete exploration based on new body of works and reflections belonging to different series: METRONOM_fuorimappa hosts Summer Collection. Cropped & Reloaded, a research on the…
Debuted at the 56th Biennale di Venezia in 2015 and entirely shown for the first time at Gagosian Gallery in New York in Spring 2016, Taryn Simon’s latest project Paperwork and the Will of Capital was recently published by Hatje Cantz. Simon’s work was inspired by George Sinclair’s horticultural studies and experiments of…
The Complete Essays 1973–1991 is a long-awaited collection of short, allusive texts on the curiosities of photography written by the great Italian artist, Luigi Ghirri. Published for the first time in English by Mack Books, the essays are curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot.
We are happy to announce 2016 – Sulla nuova fotografia italiana (On New Italian Photography), a group exhibition curated by Fantom for Viasaterna, opening on Tuesday, June 7 at 6 pm.
Beatrice Pediconi’s exhibition Alien/Alieno is currently on view at Sepia Eye in New York, until June 18th. Beatrice Pediconi’s work challenges the realm of traditional painting by exploring the water’s reaction to the immersion of different materials, such as ink, acrylic, powder, organic matter and, in the case of this exhibition, oil paint. The melting…
Il Momento is a website based on a program written by Simona Bariselli, an Italian web developer with an education in philosophy and a master degree in photography, which automatically and continuously collects and aggregates in form of collage the photographs published on the main Italian online newspapers. Until recently, the survival of online newspapers…
The temporary bookshop Riviera has animated the Istituto Svizzero in Milan since February 2016, hosting a variety of events dedicated to visual arts and publishing. Directed by Caterina Riva and Dallas (Creative Direction & Graphic Design Studio founded by Francesco Valtolina and Kevin Pedron), Riviera focuses on the book both as an object and a…
Roe Ethridge’s latest publication Shelter Island marks the third collaboration between the American artist – born in Miami in 1969 and currently living in New York – and the London-based publisher Mack, following his monographs Le Luxe (2011) and Sacrifice Your Body (2014). Ethridge’s work is characterized by a distinctive use and…
Curated by Fantom’s Francesco Zanot, Panorama is a first overview on the career of photographer and filmmaker Francesco Jodice. Presented at Camera, the Italian Centre for Photography, the exhibition – the third project since the inauguration of the Centre in October – is open from May 11th to August 14th, 2016.
After the international success of Dalston Anatomy, we are happy to announce the first solo show in Italy by Lorenzo Vitturi (Venice, 1980). The exhibition, curated by Fantom and opening in Viasaterna on Tuesday, April 5, brings together a series of original works produced specifically for the gallery spaces.
The two series presented in Hans-Christian Schink’s latest publication Fotografien aus Rom, entitled respectively Aqua Claudia and EUR, were carried out in the course of a year the artist spent at the Villa Massimo in Rome. The first is dedicated to the antique aqueduct Aqua Claudia, which served to supply the roman capital with water. The overall length from the source…
«Yes, we embody the sun, its hesitation. Yes, we are from the sun and try to be like it. Nutrients and metabolism, we are clorophyll reaching upward.» Morten Søndegaard Danish visual artist Nicolai Howalt explores the research of scientist and Nobel laureate Niels Ryberg Finsen’s (1860-1904), based on an original use of chemical rays of light in the treatment…
Presented by the Associazione socio-sanitaria Angelo Azzurro Onlus, with the support of Fondazione Vodafone Italia. From a project by Giovanni Calemma and Cristina Nuñez Exhibition. Curated by Selva Barni. Opening on Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7 pm; Radisson Blu es. Hotel Via Turati 171, Rome.
We are happy to announce our latest curatorial project: Theo Drebbel – Project Room #1, the first chapter of a special programme of brief exhibitions dedicated to emerging artists and new discoveries, hosted at Viasaterna, Milan.
In collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna and within the exhibition Your Silent Face – Luca Andreoni and Zhou Siwei – the third exhibition of the two-year programme curated by Fantom for Viasaterna –, we are happy to announce the showing of the film Inferno (Italy, 1911), which inspired the exhibited work by Luca Andreoni.
«Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.» H. Melville, Moby Dick Published contextually to Paul Graham’s current major retrospective at Pier 24 – the first solo show held at the beautiful exhibition space in San Francisco, open since 2010 –, The…
We are happy to announce the opening of Your Silent Face, an exhibition featuring Luca Andreoni’s latest project Inferno 1911 and a selection of works by Zhou Siwei, who makes his Italian debut here. The exhibition will be opening on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 6 pm at VIASATERNA, Milan.
«My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real & Ideal & sacrificing nothing of Truth by all possible devotion to poetry and beauty.» Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, 31 December 1864 Julia Margaret Cameron’s major exhibition, celebrating the bicentenary…
From the origins of photography, the relationship between the medium and mathematics has been a subject of great interest for many photographers. Internationally renown for his beautiful large-format, black-and-white gelatin silver prints composing, among others, his famous series Dioramas, Wax Museums, Seascapes, Theaters, and Architectures, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is not an exception. His interest towards infinity, the capability of his…