#OVERVIEW – Uno sguardo dall’alto sulla fotografia in Turin
The Gallerie d'Italia in Turin presents #OVERVIEW - Uno sguardo dall'alto sulla fotografia with a rich agenda of events on famous contemporary photographers such as Nan Goldin, Letizia Battaglia, Paul Graham and many others.
Program of meetings: dates and times
TUESDAY 12 November 2024 - Looking at the infinite horizon – with Paul Graham – Paul Graham talks to Luca Fiore
TUESDAY 19 November 2024 - Storytelling with vernacular photography - with Erik Kessels - Event also streamed live
TUESDAY 3 December 2024 - DOCUMENTARY: “Letizia Battaglia – Shooting the mafia”
TUESDAY 28 January 2025 - Is there any such thing as non-fiction in photography? – Vasantha Yogananthan talks to Luca Fiore - Event also streamed live
TUESDAY 11 February 2025 - DOCUMENTARY: Nan Goldin “Tutta la bellezza e il dolore: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” of Laura Poitras
TUESDAY 25 February 2025 - Jeff Wall: Pictures, Stories, Narratives, Poems – with David Campany - Event also streamed live
TUESDAY 11 March 2025 - DOCUMENTARY: “Basilico – L'infinito è là in fondo” with director Stefano Santamato and Giovanna Calvenzi
TUESDAY 25 March 2025 - Finding everything in nothing. Meeting with Vanessa Winship – Vanessa Winship talks to Luca Fiore - Event also streamed live
Looking at the infinite horizon. Paul Graham talks to Luca Fiore
Date: 12 november 2024
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: Meeting
Speakers: Paul Graham talks to Luca Fiore
Verdigris / Ambergris is the title of the great British photographer's latest book, which completes a cycle of works devoted to his own family, mortality and the transience of life. It is a pair of books focused on people scanning the horizon looking at the earth (Verdigris) and the sea (Ambergris). How does one focus on what is in front of everyone but what no one can see?
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Erik Kessels. Storytelling with vernacular photography
Date: 19 november 2024
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: Meeting- Event also streamed live
Speakers: Erik Kessels
Throughout his career of more than 20 years, Kessels has established himself as a fundamental and unquestionable point of reference in the field of what we call “found photography". Instead of taking new pictures, for most of his projects he assembles pre-existing photographs and reuses them as tiles to form his own mosaic. He is an artist without a camera or even a lens: in his practice, photography is a ready-made element to be sampled and recontextualised. The result is a sort of ecosystem of images, in which nothing is added to the enormous quantity of images that now crowds the world and grows exponentially day by day, but which, on the contrary, recoups and recycles what already exists. Another theme of this conference is the role of images in the times in which we live, and how it is possible to look at them in ways that differ from mere consumption.
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Documentary: “Letizia Battaglia – Shooting the mafia”
Date: 3 december 2024
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: Documentary
Projection of the documentary "Letizia Battaglia - Shooting the mafia" (2019). A life lived outside the box: from street photography, documenting mafia deaths, to her involvement in politics, Letizia Battaglia was a fundamental figure in Palermo and Italy between the 1970s and 1990s. Combining interviews and archive testimonies, Kim Longinotto tells the story of the life of a brave and passionate artist, revealing not only an extraordinary and non-conformist existence, but also a snapshot of Italian history. In search of a freedom that passes through the dream of a Sicily freed from the shackles of the mafia. Event in collaboration with the Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema (AMNC).
Meeting with Vasantha Yogananthan – Is there any such thing as non-fiction in photography?
Date: 28 january 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: meeting - Event also streamed live
Speakers: Vasantha Yogananthan talks to Luca Fiore
Vasantha Yogananthan, the golden boy of French photography (Grenoble, 1985), like several artists of his generation in Europe and America, is trying to bring his work into the realm of literature through images, using a medium that by its very nature is unable to create fiction. Is it possible?
Documentary: Nan Goldin – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Date: 11 febrauary 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: documentary
"Tutta la bellezza e il dolore: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" by Laura Poitras (2022) is the epic and moving story of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through slides, intimate conversations, groundbreaking photographs and rare footage, of her battle to gain recognition of the Sackler family's responsibility for the drug-overdose deaths. Winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival in 2022. Event in collaboration with the Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema (AMNC).
David Campany – Jeff Wall: Pictures, Stories, Narratives, Poems
Date: 25 february 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: meeting - Event also streamed live
Speaker: David Campany
Photography is often described as a story-telling medium, but is it? Are not the stillness and silence of photography an obstacle to narration? In making photographs as tableaux to be contemplated for their singularity, Jeff Wall has pursued an art with a particularly rich and complex relation to narrative. He has made pictures inspired by situations and stories (one of which is even titled ‘The Storyteller’), while accepting that pictures suspend, allowing the viewer to imagine, or to not imagine, a surrounding story.
Documentary: Basilico - L'infinito è là in fondo with director Stefano Santamato and Giovanna Calvenzi
Date: 11 march 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: documentary
"Basilico - L'infinito è là in fondo" (2023) is the documentary that, on the tenth anniversary of his death, retraces the main stages of the human and professional career of Gabriele Basilico (1944 – 2013). Starting with the first photos taken in his youth right through to his last works in the 2000s, many voices guide the viewer on this journey, which succeeds in conveying the art and passion of one of the greatest Italian photographers of all time. With the director Stefano Santamato and Giovanna Calvenzi in the audience. Event in collaboration with the Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema (AMNC).
Finding everything in nothing. Vanessa Winship talks to Luca Fiore
Date: 25 march 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00
Format: meeting - Event also streamed live
Speakers: Vanessa Winship talks to Luca Fiore
The great British photographer retraces the major turning points in her career that led to her most famous work "She dances in Jackson" and her latest series "Snow". Very different works that display a delicacy and depth of vision rare on the contemporary scene.