Now in FREE DOWNLAOD my essay on photography TELLINGWITHMYEYES. NOTE PER UN FOTOGRAFO. Sorry, this time I wrote in Italian. ENJOY!
Giacomo Marco Valerio
FUORI – PER LE STRADE DEL FUORI SALONE
HOEPLI – LA LIBRERIA INTERNAZIONALE, MILANO, APRIL, 8-22, 2016
Spazio espositivo Secondopiano
FUORI is Matteo Ceschi and Federico Ramponi‘s experimental photo project aiming to tell Fuori Salone activities. The project focuses on the side activities at the beginning and at the end of the Fuori Salone week. Neighborhoods (Ticinese, Tortona, Cinque vie, Brera and Lambrate) are swarming with people working hard to maintain their scheduled deadlines. Inside old walls, behind high windows, a new generation of workers reinvigorates Milan’s working tradition. Without them there would be no show! In this reportage people and different locations – which are now classic meeting points for designers, curious people, travelers and the Milanese movida as well – are seen through Matteo Ceschi’s b&w street shots and Federico Ramponi’s knowledge of the world of design.
“SIGNES/SEGNI”, NOVEMBER 10-24, 2015
SIGNES/SEGNI, November 10-24, 2015
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Building U6 – Floor S
Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano.
Opening, 10 November, h 14:00
A photographic reportage around the Place de la République monument in Paris, focused on the numerous tags, drawings, graffiti and visiting people commemorating the January 11, 2015 victims of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly magazine and kosher supermarket massacres. The series of 12 raw b&w shots – the fine art print is Gian Paolo Daldello‘s – was taken not only in a photographer’s perspective but with a historical documentation purpose – soon all these signs/evidence will disappear! There is no judgment by the photographer, the will to record prevails. The November 10-24, 2015 exhibition – curated by professor Tatjana Sekulić – is organized in collaboration with the Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca and linked to an interdepartmental series of seminars on the contradictions and conflicts of today’s plural society.
“SIGNES/SEGNI” EXHIBITION @ UNIVERSITÀ MILANO BICOCCA
SIGNES/SEGNI, November 10-24, 2015
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Building U6 – Floor S
Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano.
Opening, November 10, h 14:00
A photographic reportage around the Place de la République monument in Paris, focused on the numerous tags, drawings, graffiti and visiting people commemorating the January 11, 2015 victims of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly magazine and kosher supermarket massacres. The series of 12 raw b&w shots – the fine art print is Gian Paolo Daldello‘s – was taken not only in a photographer’s perspective but with a historical documentation purpose – soon all these signs/evidence will disappear! There is no judgment by the photographer, the will to record prevails. The November 10-24, 2015 exhibition – curated by professor Tatjana Sekulić – is organized in collaboration with the Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca and linked to an interdepartmental series of seminars on the contradictions and conflicts of today’s plural society.
INFO: seminari.interdipartimentali2015@unimib.it
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, SEPTEMBER 13
“If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here’s a goodly sight”
The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1
One shot [taken with Nikon 1 J2] and William Shakespeare’s Tempest verse from my September 13 one night exhibition at Teatro LabArca (via Marco D’Oggiono 1 Milano, 6 PM). Don’t miss All the World’s a Stage (curated by Loretta Valtz Mannucci and Federico Ramponi).
For more info contact Teatro LabArca or AREA 35 Art Factory.
WAITING FOR THE SEPTEMBER 13 EXHIBITION IN MILANO
Six days to promote All the World’s a Stage (curated by Loretta Valtz Mannucci and Federico Ramponi) one night exhibition in LabArca Theatre. Thank a lot to the Hoepli book store staff for the support.
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: – 10 DAYS
If you love straight photography, b&w shots and Shakespeare’s plays don’t miss Matteo Ceschi’s All the World’s a Stage (curated by Loretta Valtz Mannucci and Federico Ramponi), one night exhibition at Teatro LabArca in Milano (September 13, 18 PM) for EXPOinCITTÀ. For more info contact Teatro LabArca or AREA 35 Art Factory.
AREA 35 FAMILY
BRAVE & STRONG! Visit AREA 35 official website!
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, ONE NIGHT EXHIBITION, SEPTEMBER 13
This one night show will inaugurate EXPOinbArca, a series of theatre performances in the EXPOinCITTÀ cultural events circuit. Matteo Ceschi’s nine shots, taken in Italy, London and Paris, are linked to Anna Bonel’s shows, which will star theatre celebrities like Enrico Bonavera, by the Shakespearian title of the exhibition, All the World’s a Stage. Loretta Valtz Mannucci, professor of English Literature and United States History and long time collaborator of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, chose for each of Ceschi’s shot a verse from famous Shakespeare plays. Federico Ramponi, creative designer, shares the mounting work with her. Eliconturbo Folk Ensemble, a young Milanese folk-jazz-roots group, will play the perfect soundtrack for the night.
All the world’s a stage/And all men and women merely players;/They have their exits and their entrances,/And one man in his time plays many parts (William Shakespeare, As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 7)
Matteo Ceschi’s brief show proposes a theater in the mind of each and every, all, who view it. It proposes stories in the fleeting moment. Anchored, yet free. Evanescent. Open to Reason, to intuition in play with rationality. Its antecedents are many, from ‘high’ culture and ‘low’. At its back are long centuries of Tableaux vivants, of 13th century peasant huts and 18th century dining rooms replete with damask tablecloths, crystal, porcelain and silver, laid out to the life in museums, on stages, in 1930s film and Downtown Abbey TV; or M.me Tussaud’s waxworks scenes; to the painstaking ‘rooms in a box’ children once labored over in school. Theater in the mind. And the great, centuries long, play of the Tarot cards: dealt, perused, interpreted, reshuffled, by Prime Minister, tycoon and worker. Each figure a world of individual stories. Evanescent. Real. And unreal. Life. (Loretta Valtz Mannucci)
The mise en scène of Matteo Ceschi’s nine “stories without (an) end” is as volatile, transparent and fragile as his approach to photography. A fluid and intimate space gives each image the time to spark the visitor’s fantasy and take him/her to one of the possible cores and endings of the story it tells. Yesterday was the time it was shot. Today, tomorrow and the day after will be the time of the infinite personal narratives of the observers. In the interval, there is the passage from the physical scene/photo to the immaterial yet lasting dimension of imagination. (Federico Ramponi)
WORK STATEMENT
My work is street photography in sharp b&w. It is also straight photography as I do not like to tamper with the representation of reality. I pursue pure narrative in the faces and body language of people. Being myself part of everyday life, in any and every place I go, I chance upon shots which are more honest and sympathetic than perfect. [Shots by Giacomo Marco Valerio]
TELLING WITH MY EYES 