The exhibition ‘Ghitta Carell: Ritratti del Novecento’ has opened at Villa Necchi Campiglio (FAI – Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano) in Milan, and will remain open until 12 October. It pays tribute to Ghitta Carell, a leading figure in 20^(th)-century photography, who had the ability to capture the complexity of the faces and identities that shaped…
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery The European Union presents Inside Pompeii: Origins of a European Way of Life – a breathtaking exhibition showcasing the evocative photography of Luigi Spina, capturing the ancient city of Pompeii like never before. “The exhibition offers a powerful reminder that preserving the past for the benefit of the future is…
“It is a territory‘s typical know-how and the human element that determine the result of a design.” – Emmanuel Babled
Luigi Spina is a photographer who has made method and attention the hallmark of his work. His projects are mainly guided by the aim of scrutinizing a context, a landscape, a phenomenon through serial photographic campaigns, where however each shot acquires its own autonomy. With this gaze, Spina dedicated himself to investigating the interiors of…
From 23 April 2024 Castel Sant’Angelo will host the first major exhibition dedicated to Luigi Spina‘s photographic project, Interno Pompeiano. The campaign, which allowed the photographer to investigate the interiors of more than one hundred and twenty domus in Pompeii, began during the closure to the public of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, then directed by Prof.…
From 20 April to 29 September, the Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova in Possagno will host the exhibition resulting from the photographic research project “Canova Quattro Tempi” by Luigi Spina The story, began in 2019 and has led to four publications published by 5 Continents Editions, accompanied by texts by Vittorio Sgarbi. The third volume recently…
Paul Starosta’s photographs on show in Mantua from 1 to 3 October – Loggia del Grano
At Il Masetto, Giulia Mirandola will be curating the show Grazing Portraits. Kevin Horan’s Goats and Sheep, inspired by our volume Capre o pecore (English ed. Goats and Sheep. A Portrait Farm; French ed. Chèvres ou moutons). The inauguration of the show—strictly en plein air!—will take place on June 29 at 5 pm.
Musée Ariana – musée suisse de la céramique et du verre,in Geneva, is inaugurating its latest exhibition titled Mur | Murs. Jacques Kaufmann – architectures céramiques on May 17. The artist’s chosen theme is highly topical: walls, in particular the walls human beings have built to enclose and unite and at the same time to exclude.…
To mark the Orti in Parco event (April 25–28), the Park of Levico has decided to hold an open-air exhibition of Paul Starosta’s photographs of seeds. Since part of the park was destroyed by last autumn’s natural disaster, the initiative has great symbolic significance—the seeds being a clear reference to a new beginning, to life and…
This year 5 Continents Editions is once again taking part in the MIA Photo Fair, held in Milan (March 22–25, 2019) but with an international outlook. The project at the centre of the show is the Argentinian photographer Patricio Reig’s Pinhole | Slow Photography. Patricio Reig’s pinhole images, small portable camera obscuras, capture a highly…
On March 15, the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux will open to the public the exhibition, accompanied by our book Renversant ! Quand art et design s’emparent du verre. Readers can explore and discover the fascinating link between glass design and viticulture.
Mille ans de monochromes. Vaisselle sacrée et profane des empereurs de Chine, an exhibition of fine Chinese imperial ceramics, is being held at the Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts d’Extrême-Orient, in Geneva from September 27, 2018 until February 3, 2019. A brief film serves as an introduction for visitors—whether enthusiasts, scholars, or the simply curious—in…
The FIAC in Paris offered a fine opportunity to reflect upon the materials and narrative poetics of Pablo Reinoso, a Franco-Argentine sculptor. Two works were presented by the London gallery Waddington Custot: L’Arche and Le Cercle. The former work is made of steel and its shape echoes and seems to become a part of the door…
As part of the Masterpiece in Focus series of the National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition centres on the emergence of the movement in Moscow from 1915 to 1917. Pulling together more than 20 works of the Russian avant-garde, highlights include a rare relief sculpture by Vladimir Tatlin and a major suprematist painting by Kazimir…
Drawing from the extraordinary collection of nearly two thousand editioned works, mixed-media objects, and Polaroid instant prints—jointly acquired in 2011 by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation—as well as from the Robert Mapplethorpe Archive housed at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition gives…
Graines is an almost intimate journey into the astonishing beauty of nature.
