NEOREALISMO – LA NUOVA IMMAGINE IN ITALIA, 1932-1960 NEOREALISM – THE NEW IMAGE IN ITALY, 1932 - 1960
Edited by Enrica Viganò
Cagliari, EXMA’ 12 aprile – 25 giugno 2006
Madrid, Centro Cultural de la Villa 30/05 – 22/07/2007
Winterthur, Fotomuseum 1/09– 18/11/ 2007
Rotterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum 15/12 – 09/03/2008
New York, Steven Kasher Gallery 3/04 – 3/05/2008
Logroño, Sala del Ayuntamiento 6/05 – 29/06/ 2008
Oct 2008 – Jan 2009
PHOTOGALICIA 2008
NeoRealismo - La nueva imagen en Italia, 1932 - 1960 Ferrol, Fundación Caixa Galicia
The first exhibition outside of Europe that surveys Neorealismo, Italian postwar photography. The exhibition, curated by Enrica Viganò, features Italian photographers working from the 1940s through the 1960s. Their work shares the concerns, innovations, and goals of Italian Neorealist cinema. Italian Neorealist cinema and photography set out create a new Italian self-image that would bind a culturally diverse – and largely illiterate – nation. While foregrounding the pathos of poverty, homelessness, and joblessness, Neorealism was an extraordinarily optimistic project. It understood 1945 as a political, social, and artistic Year Zero. Its mission was to mirror the faces of Italian everyday life up and down the spine of the nation, reflecting them back to the people to educate them, unite them, and democratize them. Images of the real seen on movie screens and as photographs in magazines, newspapers, books and exhibitions created an effective network of shared social conscience. The social mission of Italian Neorealism can claim success.
