{"id":5842,"date":"2021-03-17T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondazionemorra.org\/evento\/isabella-gherardi-photogenic\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:25:54","slug":"isabella-gherardi-photogenic","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemorra.org\/en\/evento\/isabella-gherardi-photogenic\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella Gherardi. Photogenic"},"content":{"rendered":"

19th february \u2013 3rd april 2004<\/strong>
\nOPENING 19 FEBRUARY 7:00 p.m.
\nPalazzo dello Spagnuolo<\/strong>
\nVia Vergini 19, Napoli<\/p>\n

The Morra Foundation inaugurated its 2004 exhibition year on Thursday February 19th with \u201cPhotogenic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naples\u2019 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\u2019s faces, sometimes just a few features \u2013 an eye, lips \u2013 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 \u201cPHOTOGENIC,\u201d as in phosphorescent, photogenetic, and photogenic.<\/p>\n

On February 28th<\/sup> at 7 p.m. the Galleria Paola Verrengia (via Fieravecchia 34 \u2013 Salerno) will show another \u201cPhotogenic\u201d exhibition, and on March 17th<\/sup> 5 p.m. the Menna Foundation has invited Isabella Gherardi to speak on \u201cDirections in Photography,\u201d\u00a0 in its \u201cDialogues with the Artist\u201d series curated by Stefania Zuliani,<\/p>\n

Isabella 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.<\/p>\n

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