Now in FREE DOWNLAOD my essay on photography TELLINGWITHMYEYES. NOTE PER UN FOTOGRAFO. Sorry, this time I wrote in Italian. ENJOY!
Artespressione Gallery
THREE YEARS OF ART RESISTANCE
This bunch of frames well represents almost three years of work to present High in the Sky, the new album by Swiss composer and pianist Frank Salis.
Three years of music, pandemic, repeated lockdowns… Three years of Art Resistance that brought me and friends Nicolas Gilliet/NicOLAsound and Frank Salis to the stage of Teatro Sociale Bellinzona for the November 26 “High in the Sky” live show.
Three years of dreams that have finally come true.
Three years that have seen the birth of new artistic liaisons.
Three years of rhythms, melodies and lyrics. And teaser… and b&w jazz photos (Thanks to Paula Seegy & Matteo Pacini – Artespressione Milano)
(All shots taken with old FujiFilm X-Pro1 and Fujinon 18mm f2)
THE WORLD OF JAZZ
Years ago, thanks to my friend professor and trumpeter Fabrizio Fiume, I started photographing the jazz scene.
Years later I continue to photograph the world of jazz and build relationships with very special artists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
In a few days in Bellinzona a new musical-photographic project dedicated to jazz will kick off with friends producer Nicolas Gilliet and composer Frank Salis.
I’ll be there as always with my camera in hand.
Music and art will save us.
FRANK SALIS’ HIGH IN THE SKY CD PRESENTATION
See you on Saturday 26 November, 8:45 PM, at the Teatro Sociale in Bellinzona! Event hosted by NiCOLAsound and Artextentiuon/Artespressione.
FRANK SALIS’ “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEAVIL” TEASER
NOVEMBER 19, 2022… FINALLY… OUT… The amazing cover of Sympathy for the Devil by Frank Salis feat. Anders Osborne (by NicOLAsound)!!!
The perfect mix between late Sixties Rolling Stones’ rock mood and the cajun spirit of New Orleans.
Rhythms and melodies accompanied by black and white photography imaginary and an esoteric video narrative by Matteo Ceschi and Federico Ramponi. ENJOY!
F/50 LONELINESS EXHIBITION AT ARTESPRESSIONE/MILANO PHOTO FESTIVAL 2022
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.
“OUT OF THE NIGHT” IN CARONA
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
MYSELF
MATTEO CESCHI Milanese street photographer, essayist and freelance journalist, he writes and shoots for several magazines and has exhibited his shots in various locations.
He collaborates with Swiss newspaper La Regione. He is an author and radio host at RT Radio Terapia and collaborates with Radio Rock FM.
His latest book, Note per salvare il Pianeta, was published in 2020 by VoloLibero Edizioni. He is a member of f50/The International Photography Collective.
His latest projects were in collaboration with f/50 fellows John Meehan, Steve Coleman and Keith Goldstein and with the Italian fashion brand Lucio Costa.
He received a honorable mention at the 2015 International Photography Awards.
In 2016 he realized with colleague Jim Marshall KO.existence, a photographic project exhibited in Sarajevo and in 2017 in Milan (with high-patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2017 he was curator of an exhibition of historic photos entitled Unseen Sixties at ExpoWall gallery in Milan. In Spring 2017 he launched with creative designer Federico Ramponi remoteclicking, a new shooting language that exploits mobile technology. He was the author of the “making of” of artist and director Federico Garibaldi‘s short film, Un filo tra cielo, terra e acqua, winner of the Silver Dolphin prize at the 2018 Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. In September 2019 he presented with colleague Jim Marshall Rise and Fall, a multimedia exhibition produced by the Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU Info Centre in BiH at the History Museum of Bosnia Herzegovina, Sarajevo.
At the end of 2019 he started a collaboration with Paula Nora Seegy’s Artespressione Gallery in Milan. From February 2020 to early May 2020 he realized his Winter Midsummer Project (curated by Matteo Pacini), a completely subjective photographic narrative project rich in details captured during the few occasions one was allowed to go outside during the pandemic. In September 2020, he presented Out of the Night, an exhibition dedicated to the contemporary Swiss jazz music scene curated by Matteo Pacini.
“ARTIST INSIGHT”, OCTOBER 2020
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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ARTESPRESSIONE PRESENTS MATTEO CESCHI’S “WINTER MIDSUMMER” PROJECT
HI FOLKS, with my Winter Midsummer (Milan during Covid-19) photo essay a new collaboration starts with Paula Nora Seegy’s Artespressione Gallery, Milan. The project’s curator is Matteo Pacini who is following it as it develops.
ENJOY!
FREE DOWNLOAD: WINTER MIDSUMMER – MATTEO CESCHI – ENG
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