Jacques Henri Lartigue. L’invenzione della felicità. Fotografie

“The invention of happiness. Photographs” is the largest retrospective ever made in Italy, curated by Marion Perceval and Charles-Antoine Revol, respectively director and project manager of the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue and by Denis Curti, artistic director of the Casa dei Tre Oci, promoted by the Lazio Region and created by LAZIOcrea in collaboration with Casa Tre Oci in Venice and Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue in Paris.

The exhibition brings together 120 images, 55 of which are unpublished, all from Lartigue’s personal photo albums, some pages of which are exhibited in facsimile.

Added to these are some archival materials, books such as the Diary of a Century (published with the title “Instants de ma vie” in French), period magazines, a slide show with album pages. These documents trace his entire career, from the beginnings of the early 1900s to the 1980s, and reconstruct the story of this photographer and his rediscovery.

From 30 October 2021 to 09 January 2022 in Rome: WeGil, Largo Ascianghi 5

Caio Mario Garrubba / FREElance on the road to RomeFotografia 2021 FREEDOM

In Rome at Palazzo Merulana from 9 October until 28 November the exhibition Caio Mario Garrubba / FREElance on the road, conceived and organized by Archivio Storico Luce / Cinecittà SpA and which returns the work of one of the masters of photographic reportage of the ‘900. 116 shots, 30 years of images, four continents.
A master. The rediscovery of a giant of 20th century photographic reportage. An exhibition at Palazzo Merulana explains why the time for Caio Mario Garrubba has come.

From 9 October to 28 November 2021.

Adolfo Farsari the Italian photographer who portrayed japan end 800

L’Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma

The amazing Adolfo Farsari feats, adventurer and photographer in Japan at the end of ‘800 are alive in the 64 images of the exhibition, expressions of photography in black and white hand-colored after printing, called Yokohama Shashin. The poignant tale of a Japan in slow and ineluctable becoming emerges, described in the aesthetic topos intended to constitute the Western imagination on the subject up to the present day.
From 15 October 2020 to 8 January 2021 at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome.

World Press Photo 2019 exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

From April 25th to May 26th 2019 the 62nd edition of the World Press Photo will be held in Rome, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
The exhibition, conceived by the World Press Photo Foundation of Amsterdam, promoted by Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale and organized by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in collaboration with 10b Photography, will host the 140 finalist photos of the prestigious photojournalism contest, which from the 1955 awards the best professional photographers every year, thus helping to build the history of the world’s best visual journalism.

Paolo Di Paolo. Mondo perduto.

Paolo Di Paolo. Mondo perduto curated by Giovanna Calvenzi
17 April 2019 – 30 June 2019 – MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts.

A delicate, rigorous and wise recount of an Italy emerging from the ashes of the Second World War.

This exhibition presents an extraordinary chronicler of the Italy of the Fifties and Sixties who published more than 500 photographs in the weekly Il Mondo, portraying created by the famous journalist Mario Pannunzio, protagonists of the worlds of art, culture, fashion and film along with ordinary people.

Among his photos, rediscovered after more that 50 years of neglect, are those of Pier Paolo Pasolini at Monte dei Cocci in Rome, Tennesse Williams on the beach with his dog, Anna Magnani with her son on the Circeo beach, Kim Novak ironing in her room in the Grand Hotel, Sofia Loren joking with Marcello Mastroianni in the Cinecittà studios. And then a family seeing the sea for the first time at Rimini and the devastated faces of the people at the funeral of Palmiro Togliatti.
Main sponsor Gucci

Robert Mapplethorpe. The Sensitive Lens

This exhibition shows forty-five works and focuses on some of the themes that distinguish the work of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989): his study of still lifes, landscapes, classical sculpture and Renaissance composition.

The photographs have been selected and arranged in Galleria Corsini with several different aims: to highlight the aspects of Mapplethorpe’s work that resonate particularly with Galleria Corsini, a space — in both physical and conceptual terms — dedicated to collecting, in order to forge a new relationship between visitors, the works and the areas within the gallery.

You Got to Burn to Shine

The title You Got to Burn to Shine, borrowed from the famous collection of poems by the American poet, artist and performer John Giorno, underlines the complexity of the individual in being in the world.
The exhibition, curated by Teresa Macrì, has the ambition to narrate, through a game of references and connections, the discordances and processes of redefinition of the world-system and its aesthetic interpretation in the post-ideological era.

Artists on show: Francis Alÿs, Bertille Bak, Elena Bellantoni, Jeremy Deller, Roberto Fassone, John Day, Luca Guadagnino, Mike Kelley, Krištof Kintera, Domenico Mangano and Marieke van Rooy, Fiamma Montezemolo, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa.
Roma Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna.

Le Vie del Ponte

Via dei Banchi Nuovi, via di Panico, via del Governo Vecchio, Piazza dell’Orologio, via Orsini, Largo Tassoni are LE VIE DEL PONTE that look at Castel Sant’Angelo and will host musical, artistic and cultural events at the end of February. This is the initiative organized by the V.E.S.T.A. to enhance the area through a real atmosphere of participation among tourists, citizens and traders.

“The Ponte district, whose name derives from the pedestrian Ponte Sant’Angelo, built by Adriano in 134 d. C. extends in reality in a much larger territory that reaches up to via della Pace and via dei Coronari, but ours – says Gianfranco Labib, president of VESTA, which includes over thirty activities in the area – is a little step to start making the territory better known, which develops on economic activities whose productions, since the Middle Ages, attracted citizens, merchants, pilgrims and tourists of the grand tour. We hope we can return, through the revitalization of the area through small events with great content, to that influx dictated by the curiosity to discover the work of a goldsmith, mosaicist, leather goods, painter, sculptor, marble worker, how to enjoy shopping, catering and receptivity sharing a piece of our history together.” (see photo gallery)

Memories of Trajan. The funeral, the triumph, the private life of an emperor

The event, inspired by the archaeological exhibition “Trajan, Building the Empire, creating Europe”, recalled the moments of the life of Emperor Trajan.
Mercati di Traiano, 20 October 2018.

Lisetta Carmi. La bellezza della verità

From October 20th to March 3rd the Museum of Rome in Trastevere hosts the first public exhibition in Rome dedicated to the famous Italian photographer Lisetta Carmi.
In addition to his most famous works, the 170 images on display include three very different themes: the Parisian subway, the transvestites and the Sicilian landscapes.