FotoGrafia, the international festival of Rome, will be held at the palace of exhibitions from 29 May to 2 August 2009. This eighth edition, sponsored by the City of Rome with the artistic direction by Marco Delogu, is particularly rich in events and appointments, reflecting the growing prestige of the event.
The theme of this edition is “the decline of joy”, as subject as well as portray happiness inherent in the photograph, that value often is lacking, the subject involved in a dramatic or curbed by the high tone of fashion photography. In a swirl of awards, events and exhibitions, the festival sees the participation of important academies as Académie de France à Rome “, the Scandinavian, the Real Academia de España, the German Cultural Institute, the British School at Rome and American Academy in Rome.
The exhibition aims of the festival is a collective, where a large exposure in video installations and projections of photographs relating to the subject of reference.The exhibition, titled as “Joy,” includes works by Alejandro Chaskielberg, Alexandra Catiere, Andrea Botto, Athina Chrono, Bernard Plossu, Beso Uznadze, Carlo Bevilacqua, Dona Mc Adams, Eva Sauer, Fernanda Veron, Filippo Romano, Gus Powell, Ingar Krauss, Jacopo Benassi, Javier Marquerie Thomas, Joerg Brueggeman, Julia Fullerton - Batten, Juliana Beasley, Kuba Dabrowski, Manuel Capurso, Maria Dahlberg, Patrick Mourral, Rafal Milaca, Rinko Kawauchi, Sarah Wilmer, Stratos Kalafatis, Stratos Kalafatis, Tekla Ehling , Wanda Perrone Capano.
Two other exhibitions will be dedicated to the city of Rome: “Rome, a city of half of South African photographer Guy Tillim and “Roma occulta” by Geovanny Verdezoto Winner Award IILA FotoGrafia-2008″. Among the Italians, we remind Davide Monteleone and Giorgio Barrera, who have dedicated the exhibition entitled “From the body,” which won the Prize Paper FotoGrafia-2008 and “Through the Window.”The first is a photographic reportage on a journey into the Russian Caucasus. The second focuses on the daily life revealed through the frame represented by the windows in a sort of “picture in picture” Barrera is the winner of the International FotoGrafia - Baume & Mercier.
The American photographer Nan Goldin leads “Heartbeat”, a slide show that is a reflection of the artist about sexuality and relationships sentimental. The multimedia installation is accompanied by music composed by John Tavener and Bjork. The exhibition “The Photographer” by Gerard Rancinan, usually the author of portraits of celebrities, is focused on representation of fellow photographers. To explain the link between photography and video is also present at the festival “Mutation II - Moving Stills.” The authors are Peter Aerschmann, Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert, Christoph Breche, Olga Chernysheva, Ori Gersht, Matthew Peterlin, Tuomo Rain, Jutta Strohmaier.
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