OPENING: 

From 05 June to 08 June 2014. 

WHERE: 

Centrale Fotografia di Fano – (ITALIA).

Curated by LUCA PANARO and MARCELLO SPARAVENTI

From 5 to 8 June 2014 in Fano the photographic image returns to be the protagonist with the VI edition of Centrale Fotografia, an annual review of themed events on photography and contemporary art, curated by Luca Panaro and Marcello Sparaventi.

The exhibition is organized by the Cultural Central Photography Association, in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Fano, Cassa di Risparmio di Fano Foundation, with the participation of the Regional Council Legislative Assembly of the Marche and with the contribution of Caffè Centrale, Omnia Communication, Hotel de La Ville, La Liscia Da Ori Restaurant.

The theme developed this year by Centrale Fotografia is “New grammars”. The intent of the event is in fact to propose original and original ways of understanding photography, unhinging the clichés that are conventionally attributed to the medium. This will be possible through meetings with the authors, exhibitions, conferences, round tables, side events, moments of reflection on photography and contemporary art. In addition to this rich cultural offer, there will be the opportunity to discover beautiful places in the city, such as the Malatesta Fortress, where the main events of the event will take place.

In previous years, the exhibition recalled the Marche Photographic School: Mario Giacomelli, Giuseppe Cavalli and Luigi Crocenzi (2009 Edition), later it hosted important artists such as Franco Vaccari and Olivo Barbieri (2010 Edition), Mario Cresci and Paola Di Bello (Edition 2011), Alessandra Spranzi and Paolo Ventura (2012 Edition), Andrea Galvani and Paola De Pietri (2013 Edition). The guests of honor this year are two equally successful contemporary artists: Davide Tranchina and Fabio Sandri. As a tradition, retrospective inconsistencies will be told to the public, capable of conveying the meaning and evolution of their production over time. The meetings with the guests of honor are accompanied by projections of images and enriched by the debate with the public, fueling the dialogue and promoting the understanding of an often complex and articulated visual research.

Davide Tranchina (Bologna, 1972) conducts an accurate and scrupulous investigation into the origins of the photographic medium, recovering obsolete techniques. Shadows and lies of various geometric shapes placed on an illusory starry sky, are drawn directly by the light without the mediation of the camera. Traces of everyday life that take on an epic dimension, evoke distant worlds, bring attention back to the illusory charm that photography exercised at its origins, and which today seems to suddenly recover, entering into a new relationship with aesthetic production.

Fabio Sandri (Vicenza, 1964) from the early nineties exhibits his works made by folding and direct imprint on photosensitive paper. His research is characterized by a plastic conception of the photographic medium, investigated in its essence of imprint on an impressionable support in direct contact with the materiality of the places, or of a continuous imprint and becoming temporal. In recent years he has produced cycles of 1: 1 scale photograms of living rooms and other works in which the traces of film projections on emulsified paper are added, in an open process of continuous impression.

Among the events that characterize this edition of Centrale Fotografia, the collective exhibition “One Shot” curated by Luca Panaro, which features ten important contemporary artists: Simone Bergantini, Andrea Botto, Michele Buda, Paola Dallavalle and Fulvio Guerrieri, Francesco Pedrini, Valerio Rocco Orlando, Marco Signorini, Enrico Smerilli, Lamberto Teotino, Patrizia Zelano. The exhibition “String”, a personal exhibition by the Egyptian artist Fathi Hassan curated by Marcello Sparaventi, has also been set up within the evocative spaces of the Malatesta Fortress.

Confirming the attention paid to the author’s photographic book again this year, we note the presence of a special space dedicated to Italian and foreign editorial proposals, promoted by HF distribution.

Other appointments include the Marche Photographic Network conference and the presentation of the book “Critical Generation. Photography in Italy since 2000 ”(Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna 2014).

All the initiatives of the exhibition are free to enter.