Ghizzardi/Berengo Gardin: unpublished pictures from the Historical Archive “Pietro Ghizzardi” al Festival Fotografia Europea 2015
curated by Nicolò Cecchella and Giulia Morelli
Seventeen unpublished pictures taken by the World Press Photo 1969 winner Gianni Berengo Gardin, belonging to the Historical Archive “Pietro Ghizzardi” will be on exhibition within the European Photography Festival – Earth Effect, from May 16th through June 29th at House Museum Al Belvedere “Pietro Ghizzardi” in Boretto.
Berengo Gardin’s photographs, taken in the ’70s and collected as part of the “Un paese. Portrait of an Italian village twenty years later” project carried out with Cesare Zavattini following in the footsteps of Paul Strand’s “Un paese” (1955), immortalise the essence of the painter and farmer Pietro Ghizzardi. The pictures, never exhibited before, constitute a unique, precious heritage which dialogues directly with the artist’s work in this exhibition; the photographs are alternated with pieces from the museum’s permanent collection of paintings by Ghizzardi, and this proximity demonstrates just how close the visions of the painter and the photographer were.
The exhibition’s importance lies in the concept of promotion and the public enjoyment of the archive material, and this is underlined by the enthusiasm with which Gianni Berengo Gardin responded to the exhibition proposal. The photographer will be attending the opening on May 16th.