There Modern Art Gallery of Catania (GAM) It makes the exhibition-confidence live until 27 August 2025 “Italian novel”an artistic experience that overcomes the concept of simple photographic exhibition and embraces the evocative power of sound. Promoted by GT Art Photo Agency In collaboration with SMI Group, Operae Milò and the Municipality of Catania“Italian novel” intertwines the visions of two masters of Italian photography, Franco Carlisi And Francesco Citowith the musical intensity of the pianist and composer Davide Ferro.
On display Over 120 black and white photographs They tell, alternating vision and narration, between intimacy and corality, the wedding rite through languages that consciously move away from tradition. Far from traditional stereotypes, Carlisi and Cito return its complexity to the wedding, that is, a microcosm of emotional dynamics, expectations, cultural identities and social tensions. Their works move from different voices, a single visual symphony that composes an authentic novel for images with a poetic and ironic look and other times disillusioned, for an original, contemporary and suggestive rereading of the wedding.
To make the “Italian novel” exhibition even more engaging is the soundtrack “Evocations”born simultaneously with the exhibition project in 2023 and composed specially by the pianist and composer Davide Ferrowho has been able to translate the emotional force of the photographs into music. Thirty original songs for piano only They give voice to the images and amplify visual suggestions. A harmonious and engaging dialogue between photography and music, a stimulating encounter between the artistic vision of two masters of photography and the sensitivity of a composer capable of transforming visual emotion into sound experience. QR code easily accessible along the route.
After being exposed for the first time together with Palazzo Brancaccio in Rome and al Center for new cultures (Mo.Ca) of Bresciathe photographic projects of Franco Carlisi and Francesco Cito arrive
at the Modern Art Gallery of Catania (GAM)to offer the public an immersive visual experience and of particular emotional impact. Despite their distinct poetic, the two authors face with incredible coherence and harmony a universal and culturally rooted theme like marriage, staging an unusual and disarming visual story, capable of expressing a profound sensitivity and, at the same time, a moving lightness.
The photographs of Franco Carlisi come from the project “The one -day waltz”award -winning work (Bastianelli Prize 2011 and Pisa 2013 award) which explores the theme of marriage in an intimate Sicily and far from clichés. His images, visually powerful and almost baroque for intensity and wealth of details, set authentic fragments of life; Here is a sudden hug, a stolen look, a tear, the emotion of a parent.
Andrea Camilleri, in the introduction to the book The one -day waltzunderlines how Franco Carlisi is capable of transforming marriage photography from a romantic evanescence to a vivid and carnal representation: “The eye of Franco Carlisi continually captures ‘off -field’ and returns them to us, I would say precisely as a narrator, with extraordinary vivity and intensity. The marriage photos usually yearn to evanescence, lightness, purity, solemnity. Instead, through the gaze of Carlisi, everything becomes carnal, lived strong, real, without half colors.”
The photographic selection of Francesco Cito comes from the project “Neapolitan weddings“(Or” Neapolitan Wedding “), winner of the prestigious World Press Photo in 1995 (third prize in the” Day in the Life “category). Also in this case, the author detaches himself from the tradition of conventional marriage photography, giving life to a unique and strongly personal visual language.
With a critical and reflective look, I quote explores the social dynamics of the marriage, telling them with an approach that challenges the most traditional representations, as written by Michele Smargiassi in the introduction to the book Neapolitan Weddings: “Getting married here is not just folklore and performance. It is not only a special day … it is the suspension of the ordinary, the momentary but radical transfer of an entire parental, friendly, social community in another dimension, without any relationship with the ordinary existence of all. “
The Catania edition of the exhibition sees two new partnerships that play an important role in the organization: the Municipality of Cataniawho also chose to sponsor the initiative, and the cultural body Operae Milò of Catania, operational in the area for 15 years with the purposes of cultural and artistic promotion and the dissemination of design, crafts and decorative arts.
Carlo Franza