BACKSTAGE. Dietro alla creazione di “MAC”, il nuovo album jazz di Frank Salis and James Andrews exhibiton (curated by Francesco and Gaia Di Gregorio), Lugano, Switzerland, MARCH 24 – APRIL 5, 2024
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Sunday, March 24, 6:30 PM
Atelier Cornici e Restauri, Via Luigi Canonica 12, Lugano, Switzerland
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The members of f50 are delighted to announce LONELINESS – Photographic Dialogues with Places/Non-Places, our first group exhibition as part of the Milan Photofestival 2022. The show is curated by Matteo Pacini and hosted by Paula Nora Seegy at Artespressione gallery.
Participating in this show are Mahesh Balasubramanian (India), Matteo Ceschi (Italy), Steve Coleman (UK), Keith Goldstein (USA) and John Meehan (UK).
From the official press release for the exhibition (by Matteo Pacini):
“In the current complex historical moment, pandemic and post-pandemic scenarios have expanded the spectrum of what the French philosopher and anthropologist Marc Augé defines as ‘non-places’, i.e. impersonal spaces with less and less identity in which people circulate as anonymous entities intersecting without entering into a relationship. Interactions are driven by a frenetic desire to consume, accelerate and concentrate daily activities.
This condition, typical of places such as shopping centres, highways, stations and airports, pushes users to feel at ease thanks to the standardization of spaces. The similarity makes them feel familiar all over the world wherein the common experience of users creates an illusion that social differences are flattened. Advancing globalization risks dragging more and more shared spaces of our cities into these dynamics, whereby common spaces loose their identity becoming ‘non-places’. This trend reflects more a mass inner condition than the unexpected consequence of a short-sighted commercial or urban strategy.
In the ‘non-places’ we are at the same time participants and strangers, strangers in a no man’s land, a land that in any case feels inexplicably ours. The reference to Marc Augé is evident in the choice of the title ‘Loneliness’, solitudes, and in the willingness of the members of the collective f/50 The International Photography Collective to explore the concept of ‘non-belonging’ in photographic research aimed at physically recording the ‘personal-impersonal’ dichotomy through a series of interpretations of reality in different parts of the world.”
The exhibition will be open from 16 to 30 September 2022, from Tuesday to Saturday from 12.00 to 19.00. For visits by appointment call +39 329 9648086 or email artespressione@gmail.com.
Maurizio Gonnella and Matteo Ceschi’s OUT OF THE NIGHT exhibition (curated by Matteo Pacini and produced by Paula Nora Seegy’s Artespressione) at Galleria La Loggia, Carona, Switzerland, September 25-October 16, 2021
OUT OF THE NIGHT presents an inter-generational look at Swiss jazz music scene, past and present, by two great photographers: a visual and musical tale lasting 40 years.
Are you ready for new b&w frames and exciting jazz vibes in Carona?
OPENING, Saturday, September 25, 4 PM
INFO:
https://www.gallerialaloggia.ch
https://www.artespressione.com
The full Out of the Night photo project by Matteo Ceschi and Maurizio Gonnella (curated by Matteo Pacini) in Artespressione‘s Artist Insight (October 2020). ENJOY!
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Thursday, September 24, at Paula Nora Seegy’s Artespressione Gallery (via della Palla 3 in Milan): OUT OF THE NIGHT opening. The exhibition by Milanese photographer and essayist Matteo Ceschi curated by Matteo Pacini is scheduled during the 15th edition of Milano Photofestival, “Scenari, orizzonti, sfide. Il mondo che cambia”.
Originally scheduled for April 2020, the exhibition was postponed because of the pandemic. The 24 September opening inaugurates Artespressione’s 2020 events program. OUT OF THE NIGHT presents an inter-generational look at the jazz music scene, past and present, by two great photographers: a visual and musical tale lasting 40 years.
Inspired by Joe Henderson’s classic standard, OUT OF THE NIGHT puts together and compares Matteo Ceschi’s black and white frames, taken during JazzAscona 2019 and Jazz Cat Club Ascona’s 2019-2020 season and Swiss photographer Maurizio Gonnella’s precious film photos (from Luciano Bignotti’s Archive) taken during the 1970s and early 1980s editions of Estival Jazz Lugano.
Gonnella was a highly regarded public figure in Lugano and Canton Ticino, where he was an appreciated visual artist and a well respected musical and cultural connoisseur. Gonnella’s stage and backstage black and white shots blend with Matteo Ceschi’s recent ones: both Gonnella’s and Ceschi’s frames record the evolution of the changing jazz music scene, reflecting its magic, its everlasting vibrant and thrilling vibes.
Originating from an authentic fascination with music, Matteo Ceschi’s black and white shots find in Blue Note Records producer and photographer Francis Wolff’s works a narrative and stylistic reference model. Approaching the music world with a typical street/straight photography philosophy, Ceschi tells us what happens on stage but also everything that happens away from the eyes of the audience: today, in a very intricate and difficult historical period, Ceschi’s unadulterated portraits can help the audience regain those vibes and real emotions of the live shows they are missing so much at present.
Matteo Ceschi’s shots were done and collected for JazzAscona Festival, Tessiner Zeitung newspaper, Pnp musical culture magazine and Nicolasound Concert Management. A selection of shots dedicated to the 2019 edition of the JazzAscona Festival was recently published in the Portuguese specialist magazine Fuji X Passion.
Matteo Ceschi and Jim Marshall‘s Rise and Fall multimedia art exhibition (with high-patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina) at Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo)
OPENING EVENT: TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2019, 7PM
Walls are absolutely central to the history, experience, interaction, culture and condition of humans. From ancient paintings on the walls of caves, to the Great Wall of China, to the Walls of Jericho, the Wailing Wall, and the Walls of Babylon, to the modern perspectives of the Berlin Wall, right-wing dreams of border walls, and contemporary graffiti, not least in the context of the internationally recognised works of Banksy and Blu, et al.
While walls can divide and exclude, they can also function as shared, inclusive, even sacred spaces. They can communicate cultural, historical and political events and experiences through fading signs, plaques, shrapnel marks, other more subtle features, and of course street art.
Urban environments, such as Milan and Sarajevo, speak through their walls, telling stories of often tumultuous change.
Jim Marshall and Matteo Ceschi’s photo project presents a dialogue between two different contexts and artists, reflecting the humour, the horror, the light and the darkness of the stories told by the walls of our cities. Stories of events and of empires, and indeed of walls as they rise and fall.
SEE: https://www.unimib.it/unimib-international/winter-and-summer-schools/summer-schools-2019
The series of frames entitled “Through. Speriamo che il tempo non sia in ritardo” (opening TODAY, Area 35 Art Gallery, Via Vigevano 35, Milano, 6:30 PM) helps the viewer to rediscover his/her peripheral vision. Just for one day, let the narrow social networks perspective go. Friend Federico Garibaldi makes us see through the black dots of trolley car windows other people and ourselves.
I took the b&w shots of Federico Garibaldi working from March to early May 2019 with my lovely Fuji X100.
Are you in Milan with your band for a live show/showcase or a recording session?
I am a photographer/essayist/music journalist, member of f/50 The International Photography Collective.
I’ve been in the music business for more than twenty years. Now, I am a columnist for Swiss Pnp Magazine and for Indiana Music Magazine and a contributing author/photographer for Fuji X Passion and Olympus Passion magazines.
In my ROCK MUSIC ARCHIVES you can find people like Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell & Soundgarden, Wayne Kramer & MC5, Soft Machine and indie/underground musicians too.
If you are tired of the usual boring photo sessions, please contact me. In addition to the live performance I can also photograph all the soundcheck & backstage situations. (Photo: Me and Zara McFarlane at Blue Note, Milan, 2018 – by Federico Ramponi)
CONTACT: ceschimatteo@gmail.com
In the ROCK MUSIC ARCHIVES (click on the top right to find the menu) I collected all the shots I’ve taken over the years for various music magazines and websites. Currently, my frames are published in Swiss Pnp magazine, Fuji X Passion, Olympus Passion, and in Indiana Music Magazine.
You can find a selection of my ROCK MUSIC ARCHIVES shots (Soundgarden, Prince, Enrico Rava, Greg Dulli, Esperanza Spalding etc.) at ExpoWall Gallery, Milan.
Send any requests for usage rights, info or to buy fine art prints to ceschimatteo@gmail.com or to info@expowallgallery.com
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