2nd October - 28th November 2009
Techincal Info
GIORDANO MORGANTI "Blood on Blood"
Curator: Clelia Belgrado
Opening: Thursday 1st Ocotber 2009 from 6 p.m. to midnight
Dates: 2nd October 2009 - 28th November 2009
Gallery Hrs: Wednesday to Saturday 3.30 p.m to 7.30 p.m and by appointment tel. +39 3397534993
The artist will attend the opening
Catalogue (English & Italian) at the gallery.
The evening of the opening at 9 p.m. outside the gallery a debate will be held with Giordano Morganti, Paolo Pezzana, Sandro Parmiggiani, Luca Guzzetti, Natale Calderaro, Massimo Rizzardini, Elisabetta Bodini.
Press Release
Vision Quest Contemporary Photography is pleased to begin the 2009/2010 season with START - the collective opening of all the art galleries in Genova - and the exhibition by Giordano Morganti “Blood on Blood".
The photographs on display are part of research begun about eleven years ago in Rome on the occasion of the Anima Award when Simona Marchini, President, asked Giordano Morganti to participate with an exhibition on the homeless. After the presentation of ten images at the Campidoglio, Morganti stops purely because he does not feel this project; there is no contradiction, but true facts that are contrary to his usual way of photographing his search for aesthetics, portraiture, studio work but a direct approach as this work required.
Having abandoned this project and returned to Milan years later, while at the Central Station he finds himself calling for emergency medical care to help a homeless man with problems. As he observed the indecent reactions of the people around him, he felt the need to return to that research that years earlier he had decided to abandon. Thus began the journey that would have taken him to meet Said, a tramp born in the favelas of Brazil, who from then on will accompany him in the basements of a group of warehouses near the freight station in Piazzale Lodi. In this place, (no longer existing because completely dismantled), together with the rats, there lived hundreds and hundreds of people of various nationalities and social abstractions, refugees, clochards, addicts, in total degradation among the absolute filth, excrements and the stench with the constant fear of a police raid.