BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fondazione Morra - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fondazione Morra X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.fondazionemorra.org/en/ X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fondazione Morra REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19970330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19971026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19980329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19981025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19990328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19991031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20000326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20001029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20010325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20011028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20020331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20021027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20030330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20031026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20040328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20041031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20050327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20051030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20040219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20040403T190000 DTSTAMP:20260610T041432 CREATED:20210317T142157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210317T142554Z UID:5842-1077217200-1081018800@www.fondazionemorra.org SUMMARY:Isabella Gherardi. Photogenic DESCRIPTION:19th february – 3rd april 2004\nOPENING 19 FEBRUARY 7:00 p.m.\nPalazzo dello Spagnuolo\nVia Vergini 19\, Napoli \nThe Morra Foundation inaugurated its 2004 exhibition year on Thursday February 19th with “Photogenic.” \nNaples’ great\, almost circular Piazza del Plebiscito\, rimmed by neoclassical columns\, struck Isabella Gherardi with its air of expectancy\, as if some event were about to happen or just happened moments ago\, and she photographed sections of the supports of two equestrian monuments in its center. Throngs of Neapolitans pass through the piazza and often leave their mark on these supports\, covering them like notepads with a labyrinth of names\, numbers\, faces\, figures\, whispers\, memories. Gherardi worked with this dense material\, editing the extraneous or repetitive\, and adding her own graffiti\, or signs inspired by Altamira\, ancient Egypt\, and other modern artists\, to express the stratification of time and the city. Furthermore\, she had recently been making large watercolor images of women’s faces\, sometimes just a few features – an eye\, lips – suffused with glamour (fascination\, enchantment). It came naturally to the artist to combine the watercolors with the graffiti work as a further enrichment of the stratification; but more than anything the luminosity and transparency of the watercolors endow the work with a dimension of the sensuous and an intense monumentality. Hence this exhibition entitled “PHOTOGENIC\,” as in phosphorescent\, photogenetic\, and photogenic. \nOn February 28th at 7 p.m. the Galleria Paola Verrengia (via Fieravecchia 34 – Salerno) will show another “Photogenic” exhibition\, and on March 17th 5 p.m. the Menna Foundation has invited Isabella Gherardi to speak on “Directions in Photography\,”  in its “Dialogues with the Artist” series curated by Stefania Zuliani\, \nIsabella Gherardi lives and works in Florence. Her work is in public and private collections and has been shown in important galleries and museums in Italy and abroad\, such as: Studio Casoli\, Milan; John Weber Gallery\, New York; Photo & Co\, Turin; Ludwig Museum Aachen; Pecci Museum\, Prato. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Installation View. Photogenic. Palazzo dello Spagnuolo\, Napoli\, 2004 Courtesy Fondazione Morra URL:https://www.fondazionemorra.org/en/evento/isabella-gherardi-photogenic/ LOCATION:Palazzo dello Spagnuolo\, Via Vergini\, 19\, Napoli\, Italia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fondazionemorra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PHOTOGENIC-FRONTE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:19980311T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:19980510T193000 DTSTAMP:20260610T041432 CREATED:20210325T111924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T113359Z UID:5955-889644600-894828600@www.fondazionemorra.org SUMMARY:Fabio Donato. The farer DESCRIPTION:11th march- 10th may 1998\nOPENING 11th MARCH 7:30 p.m.\nStudio Morra\nVia Calabritto 20\, Napoli \nThe Paradoxes of Photography by Angelo Trimarco \nIt was Roland Barthes\, more than any other\, who sowed the territory of photography with paradoxes. He began in ’61\, maintaining that the “particular charter of photographic image” is a codeless message\, since\, of course\, “the image is not real” but is “to say the least a perfect analogon\, and it is precisely this analogic perfection that in a general sense\, defines photography”. In 1980\, just before his death\, he concluded that photography is a “noesis without noema\, an act of thinking without thought\, an understanding without a final objective”. \nCodeless message\, (though influenced in its reading by a number of codes) and noesis without noema photography is in Barthes’ perspective\, a holder of many privileges. A supreme paradox\, it is\, among languages\, the only one that is capable of telling us that which has been and not that which is no longer. The past\, thus\, is the very place for photography: or more precisely\, time as aorist. That which has been represents the certainty and truth of photography. Only of photography. Photography\, after all\, gives way to memory. What counts is that which has been (the essence of photography is to ratify that which it portrays). And to portray time in its immobility\, in its being\, thus\, that which has been. Photography then\, is related to death. \n“Photography corresponds perhaps to the irruption\, in modern society\, of a symbolic Death\, beyond religion\, beyond ritual: a sort of sudden plunge into a literal death.” \nCodeless message and noesis without noema\, photography is the “Absolute particular”\, the “supreme contingency”\, the “reality in its tireless expression”. It testifies to the stubbornness of the referent in being ever present (“One would say that photography always carries its referent with it\, both of them marked by the same loving and funereal immobility”.) A trinity\, then\, disquiets us: photography\, love\, mourning\, but without being able to go through the mourning process. \nFrankly\, I don’t know how much photography\, which is in any case a language\, can exhibit the “absolute Particular” and the “Supreme contingency”\, the Reference in its “tireless expression”. I don’t believe it\, as I believe the opposite\, that any language – poetry\, music\, painting – is the Absolute Universal or the Supreme Eternity. Walter Benjamin\, in a much celebrated quotation\, referring to the nature “that speaks to the camera”\, offers a precious indication of an “unconsciously elaborated space”: “only through photography”\, he advises\, “can you discover the instinctive unconscious”. Through photography\, then\, it is possible to grab hold of the splinter of time in which “the step extends“\, in which in a series of ordered and predictable facts and events\, something or someone blocks the way or accelerates. Moreover\, the optical unconscious indicates the discontinuity of the step\, the rift\, though minimal\, that brushes against the shining surface of things\, the drive that makes nature deviate and disturb reality. \nThe optical unconscious signals the threshold – the passage – from the real to the artificial\, from nature to language\, to photography as a linguistic construction. A step\, obviously\, that is inconstant and accented by different beats. Not immobile\, absolute time\, but different temporalities which mark the experience of photography\, this singular codeless language. Just as in other non-verbal languages. Without codes\, or better yet\, with weak ones. \nFabio Donato’s work is the perfect place to grasp the moment in which the step extends. His work is a search for the threshold of the threshold: between the inside and the outside\, the before and after\, life and death. The door\, the window\, the mirror\, are among others\, the linguistic transits in which the that which was\, the mourning\, and its elaboration surface. Since a work of art\, any work of art\, is always about loss and mourning – the that which was – and its creative elaboration in evident presence. \nThe reflection on the “line of demarcation”\, as Donato calls it – a line\, which is after all\, mobile and elusive – which signals the inside and outside\, the threshold between that which was and that which is\, between the aorist and the present\, occurs primarily through the relationships of black and white upon the rectangular piece of paper. And for the different perceptive gradients that their relations suggest. In this way\, the work of boundaries between life and death\, before and after\, never assumes in these works a symbolic and allusive curve. Fabio Donato’s photography\, in its tightness and rigor\, has always been a periplus around the figures of an exercise\, more than any other perhaps\, difficult and enigmatic. \nFabio Donato’s photos are surfaces accented by regular rhythms. The objects ( a lamp\, a chair\, a balcony\, a silver of a landscape\, a mirror) don’t have value in themselves\, for their perceptive intrusiveness\, but for the place they occupy in space\, for the weft that succeeds in being woven. Donato’s photography is a transparent construction of language: nothing is left up to improvisation or inspiration. Everything instead\, is part of a design that black and white – flashes of white\, so sudden like apparitions\, or the black that becomes grey or even more black – help to cut into another form. \nDonato’s exploration has far-off roots\, back to the 1970s. In his photographic work on art and theatre\, in his photo report of India\, in the project that he\, not without reason\, entitled “Ambiguity”. In that tension\, I would say\, to work the language of photography\, experimenting with margins and possibilities. I refer\, as I have before\, to his choice of photographing Helmuth Newton’s photographs\, to examine the decisiveness of the critique of similarity or representation. \nFor Fabio Donato\, photography is\, in fact\, this step that provokes a discontinuity between things and their perceptive habits\, that slender line that marks the time of life and the time of death. Photography certainly has to do with time. But not just that which has been\, with the aorist\, with the Reference. But always\, and also\, for that step that extends to another time. Photography is\, in this way\, hovering between the dead time of that which has been and the live time of the work of art. And so\, with that which is\, with the process of mourning. \n  \nPhotography was born and the narcissist-men became immortal.\nTheir vanity was finally satisfied.\nWhat diabolical invention is this\, whose product is\nalways paradoxically straddling the past and future\,\nwithout ever residing in the present?\nAnd what does this photographer live while he stops life\ntransforming it into death?\nHow thick will that line be\, that establishes the boundary between life and death\,\nbefore and after\, inside and outside\, false and true\,\nsubject and object\, know and unknown…\nBut maybe the men photographers produce images\nonly to exorcise this death which perhaps does not exist. \nFabio Donato \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fabio Donato. The farer\, Studio Morra\, Napoli\,1998 Courtesy Fondazione Morra\n \n \n \n \n \n Fabio Donato. The farer\, Studio Morra\, Napoli\,1998 Courtesy Fondazione Morra URL:https://www.fondazionemorra.org/en/evento/fabio-donato-the-farer/ LOCATION:Studio Morra\, Via Calabritto 20\, Napoli\, 80121 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.fondazionemorra.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Fabio-Donato-3.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR