25th February - 26th March 2011<\/h2>
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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>Techincal Info<\/h3>\n\n\tOpening reception:\u00a0<\/strong>Thursday 24th February 2011 from 6.30 pm to 9.00 pm
Duration:<\/strong> 25th February to 26th March 2011
Location:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0VISIONQUEST gallery
Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy
Tel.:<\/strong> +39 339 7534993 - +39 010 2468771
Gallery hrs:\u00a0Wednesday, to Saturday\u00a0 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or by appointment tel. +39 3397534993
Website:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Email information:<\/strong> info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\nThe photographer will attend the opening<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0During the evening the book \u201cMemorie\u201d by\u00a0 Bruno Cattani\u00a0 will be presented.
Essays by\u00a0 Sandro Parmiggiani, Robert Poujade, Francesca Baboni, Stefano Taddei, Piergiorgio Paterlini, Mauro Bonaretti, Claudio Feruglio, - Ed. Umberto Allemandi & Co, 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Press Release<\/h3>\n\n\tMaintaining the memories of places, faces, bodies, emotions. Assimilating and preserving them in a mysterious and imaginary box.\u00a0 Then for some arcane mystery, or a partly conscious stimulus, opening this box and giving them form again. Photography is one of the great accomplices of this \u201cmemory box\"; the moment we take a photograph we relinquish a fragment of our life. \"Of course we can never forget that photography, when claiming to rescue a piece of life and reality from the inexorable passing of time, it actually gives it to us fossilised, mere shreds of something that no longer exists.\"\u00a0 writes Sandro Parmiggiani.<\/p>\n
It is clear that with this photographic research started several years ago on the memories of his hometown Reggio Emilia, Bruno Cattani does not only deliver memories. With indisputable mastery of the photographic technique and composition, with great sensitivity and a chromatic quietness he draws near to fragments, places, streets, corners.\u00a0 He moves around the games and toys of our childhood: the tricycle, the table-football, the carousel, the circus, Sundays in the park or summer by the sea, the football matches or the school excursions to the Civic Museum. He shows us the tensions and contradictions of our religion: the crucifixes in the churches and the vestries, those abandoned or those above the calendars of naked women lined up in a barber shop. He explores the crumbling ruins of abandoned buildings and the presence of an old psychiatric hospital or the disused Reggiane Factories.<\/p>\n
By opening his \u201cmemory box\u201d Bruno Cattani gives us the opportunity to open our own and reread its filtered history. Sandro Parmiggiani continues: \u201c\u2026 photography, we might add, is not hammering away at\u00a0 stealing a fragment of reality exactly identical\u00a0 to a presumed truth,\u00a0 but knowing\u00a0 how to restore it, by a kind of transfiguration, in its essence of something always in relation to the world and the emotion of seeing\u2026\u2026This is the photography that lasts, that, in a fragment of reality, is\u00a0 not afraid of confronting itself with artistic expressions possessing a far longer and solid tradition, one that can restore for us and maintain in time, the pulses of life and moments gone by.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
Opening reception:\u00a0<\/strong>Thursday 24th February 2011 from 6.30 pm to 9.00 pm The photographer will attend the opening<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0During the evening the book \u201cMemorie\u201d by\u00a0 Bruno Cattani\u00a0 will be presented. Maintaining the memories of places, faces, bodies, emotions. Assimilating and preserving them in a mysterious and imaginary box.\u00a0 Then for some arcane mystery, or a partly conscious stimulus, opening this box and giving them form again. Photography is one of the great accomplices of this \u201cmemory box\"; the moment we take a photograph we relinquish a fragment of our life. \"Of course we can never forget that photography, when claiming to rescue a piece of life and reality from the inexorable passing of time, it actually gives it to us fossilised, mere shreds of something that no longer exists.\"\u00a0 writes Sandro Parmiggiani.<\/p>\n It is clear that with this photographic research started several years ago on the memories of his hometown Reggio Emilia, Bruno Cattani does not only deliver memories. With indisputable mastery of the photographic technique and composition, with great sensitivity and a chromatic quietness he draws near to fragments, places, streets, corners.\u00a0 He moves around the games and toys of our childhood: the tricycle, the table-football, the carousel, the circus, Sundays in the park or summer by the sea, the football matches or the school excursions to the Civic Museum. He shows us the tensions and contradictions of our religion: the crucifixes in the churches and the vestries, those abandoned or those above the calendars of naked women lined up in a barber shop. He explores the crumbling ruins of abandoned buildings and the presence of an old psychiatric hospital or the disused Reggiane Factories.<\/p>\n By opening his \u201cmemory box\u201d Bruno Cattani gives us the opportunity to open our own and reread its filtered history. Sandro Parmiggiani continues: \u201c\u2026 photography, we might add, is not hammering away at\u00a0 stealing a fragment of reality exactly identical\u00a0 to a presumed truth,\u00a0 but knowing\u00a0 how to restore it, by a kind of transfiguration, in its essence of something always in relation to the world and the emotion of seeing\u2026\u2026This is the photography that lasts, that, in a fragment of reality, is\u00a0 not afraid of confronting itself with artistic expressions possessing a far longer and solid tradition, one that can restore for us and maintain in time, the pulses of life and moments gone by.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
Duration:<\/strong> 25th February to 26th March 2011
Location:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0VISIONQUEST gallery
Piazza Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy
Tel.:<\/strong> +39 339 7534993 - +39 010 2468771
Gallery hrs:\u00a0Wednesday, to Saturday\u00a0 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 or by appointment tel. +39 3397534993
Website:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Email information:<\/strong> info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\n
Essays by\u00a0 Sandro Parmiggiani, Robert Poujade, Francesca Baboni, Stefano Taddei, Piergiorgio Paterlini, Mauro Bonaretti, Claudio Feruglio, - Ed. Umberto Allemandi & Co, 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Press Release<\/h3>\n