Exhibition, Italy, Napoli, 05 June 2010
Skills: Place to sleep, Office assistant, Press officer, Sponsor, Investor, Street handouts
Angelo Castucci’s personal exhibition is the first of a cycle curated by Viviana Checchia for the Primo Piano Gallery and which will extend over the next two years. This macro-project will involve other countries such as Slovakia, Romania and Armenia in a photographic research related to the ex “Eastern Bloc”.
By means of an iconographic study on different levels, the Back to Rome project (photography, video, performances and sculpture) strives to provide a new image of the city of Rome. The project stems from a meditation on the role photography plays in the construction of the iconography of a place. The project’s focus is Rome, a city which hosts everyday thousands of tourists, but similar considerations could be made for other “art cities”.
The iconographic representation of the city, amplified and reproduced through guides and souvenirs, mystifies and replaces the real city. City fruition is thus limited to very few places and the overall experience the visitor has of the city is deeply distorted.
Reality is no longer experienced directly but only through a representation which is far more efficient than reality itself. Such a representation always refers to the same iconography. Tourists anxiously take photographs and videos which adhere to this standard image of the city and which they will be able to share with others at home, as a proof, both for them and for other people, that they have really been there.
Our project sets into this context and operates on one hand, with a series of photographs which, through a different representation of the urban landscape, suggests a new mapping, new itineraries and new perspectives on the “art cities”; on the other hand, with a series of “souvenirs” and documents which chronicle these new urban crossings.
By means of an iconographic study on different levels, the Back to Rome project (photography, video, performances and sculpture) strives to provide a new image of the city of Rome. The project stems from a meditation on the role photography plays in the construction of the iconography of a place. The project’s focus is Rome, a city which hosts everyday thousands of tourists, but similar considerations could be made for other “art cities”.
The iconographic representation of the city, amplified and reproduced through guides and souvenirs, mystifies and replaces the real city. City fruition is thus limited to very few places and the overall experience the visitor has of the city is deeply distorted.
Reality is no longer experienced directly but only through a representation which is far more efficient than reality itself. Such a representation always refers to the same iconography. Tourists anxiously take photographs and videos which adhere to this standard image of the city and which they will be able to share with others at home, as a proof, both for them and for other people, that they have really been there.
Our project sets into this context and operates on one hand, with a series of photographs which, through a different representation of the urban landscape, suggests a new mapping, new itineraries and new perspectives on the “art cities”; on the other hand, with a series of “souvenirs” and documents which chronicle these new urban crossings.
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