Photographic exhibition “Wine. Beyond photography”

Curated by: Luca Panaro
Tutor: Marco Scozzaro

Photographs by: Kasey Baker, Xuhang Chen, Zheng Ma, Pumipat Usapratumban, Yu - Shan Sammi Wei

April 2-5, 2023
Vinitaly
VeronaFiere, Verona

Since May, 2023
S.Cristina Estate, Peschiera del Garda (VR)

Photography itself is the focal point in this new chapter of the project. Digital technologies developed in recent years have transformed the art form. But they have also changed the ways we understand it. Today more than ever, photography is free from the clichés of formality and our reliance on the medium. Here, we are not analyzing the different ways we can photograph one subject or another. Instead, the idea is to capture the nature of the medium and to understand the technological and cultural changes that are happening within it.

Their will to go beyond photography was clear. Some did so by answering a technological call. They made use of the optic components employed in digital cameras and then reimagined the images on different platforms. Others used traditional devices as they interpreted the changes in photography as something more subtle. For them, it became an environment in which they could reverse the attitudes we have all acquired by using our smartphones and other software — even when those technologies are not being employed in the way they were intended.
The colors of the photographs are frequently altered with respect to reality. They are often extremely saturated and they don’t attempt to depict the truth. Instead, they knowingly distance themselves from reality as they attempt to mimic the colors that we have become accustomed to seeing on the back-lit screens of our devices.

The same could be said of the objects that were photographed. The artists show them to us in images where their look and usage have been transformed. It is as if they have changed their function. In some ways, they appear like a designer’s draft of a work in progress.
The works produced by the students from SVA show this change through the different media on which the images have been printed. This is especially true when it comes to the way they were mounted for the show. Some of the images are framed and hard mounted to the walls. Others are printed on light fabric that moves as the viewer walks by. Others yet are printed on flooring, on paper of different weight and texture, transparent sheets, or textiles.

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Photographic exhibition Rosa Sentinella

By Rachele Maistrello
Curated by Luca Panaro

April 14-17 2024
Vinitaly
VeronaFiere, Verona

From May, 6th
Tenuta S.Cristina, Peschiera del Garda (VR)

Seven of the works for this show are matted analog photos where we find colored cutouts that appear in unexpected contexts surrounded by winery tools.

A shell, a diamond, a series of cardboard cutout cherries that allow the artist to rediscover the wonder of childhood. The project takes its name from one of these images: The “rosa sentinella” (“sentinel rose”).

There are also pages of documents where lists and shapes can be faintly discerned on light paper. Lastly, a video shows hands in action as they mime the action of pruning. We also see a print on a huge piece of fabric with the reproduction of negatives created by the artist.

We can imagine a sort of dance as we contemplate the blow-up and the video. The show ends with a copy of an artist’s book that features more than 40 images including photographs, lists, and illustrations.

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Photographic exhibition “Wine. Beyond: objects, landscape, portrait and photography”

Curated by: Luca Panaro

Photographs by: Giacomo Alberico, Kasey Baker, Nicola Biagetti, Xuhang Chen, Cecilia Del Gatto, Lisa Dollhopf, Stefanie Dollhopf, Alessandra Draghi, Jorge Garrido, Greta Grasso, Cesare Lopopolo, Zheng Ma, Paolo Munari Mandelli, Orecchie d’Asino, Bartolomeo Rossi, Lara Sapper, Pumipat Usapratumban, Anna Vezzosi, Marina Villanueva, Yu-Shan Sammi Wei

November, 24th – December, 1st 2023
Ex Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Bergamo (Italy)

The photographic exhibition brings together a selection of the works of the 20 authors from the 4 international schools of photography who participated in the project "Wine. Beyond": Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, F/16 in Berlin, FMAV in Modena and SVA – School of Visual Arts in New York

The exhibition allows you to appreciate the different stylistic approaches of the various training institutes but above all the creativity of the students of various nationalities involved. The students of the 4 schools involved from year to year, each worked on a different macro theme: objects, landscape, portrait, photography, and were invited to interpret the given theme in an original way, in the desire to go "beyond" traditional iconography.
There are those who have done it by answering a technological call, riding the potential offered by digital. Those who instead used traditional equipment, interpreted the change within photography as something more subtle. In both cases we notice colors and shapes altered from reality, close-up shots that tend towards abstraction.

Photography exhibition Sole Pioggia Vento

By Julia Carrillo
Curated by Luca Panaro

April, 6-9 2025
Vinitaly
VeronaFiere, Verona

May 7th – June, 1st 2025, Palazzo Corner Mocenigo, Campo S. Polo, Venezia

From June, 16th 2025
Tenuta S.Cristina, Peschiera del Garda (VR)

The exhibition consists of three heliogravures and eight off-camera photographs. The former are created using a sophisticated printing process that involves making a matrix similar to an aquatint engraving. However, unlike traditional methods, the image is transferred onto the plate through a photographic process rather than manually.

The remaining photographs employ a technique that, paradoxically, does not require a camera, which is why it is commonly referred to as "off-camera" photography.

The exhibition is further enriched by a video art piece and an artist's book, which vividly document the entire creative process. The sun, rain, and wind observed by Julia Carrillo during her residency among the vineyards of Valpolicella and Lugana correspond to the light, water, and air she used to bring abstract forms and open-ended landscapes to life, inviting personal interpretation.

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