Scianna and Cerati at the Colorno Palace

PARMA - Two writers, Leonardo Sciascia and Jorge Louis Borges, immortalized by Ferdinando Scianna and a woman's gaze - that of Carla Cerati - on faces, bodies, landscapes. It is the portrait that provides the main theme in the autumn appointment with great photography at the Reggia di Colorno, in the lower Parma area. The exhibitions (Scianna is scheduled from 12 September to 8 December, Cerati from 16 October to 8 December), curated by Sandro Parmiggiani and organized by Antea, are part of the Colorno Photo Life program, which offers fans of all levels the opportunity to exhibit their works alongside those of the masters and see the current trends in national photography.

Ferdinando Scianna, born in Bagheria (Palermo) in 1943 and introduced in 1982 by Henri Cartier-Bresson in the famous Magnum Photos Agency, in the 44 portraits of Sciascia and Borges he digs into the faces and bodies of two writers very dear to him. If the meeting with Borges dates back to the Eighties, the one with Sciascia dates back to 1963, giving rise to a friendship and collaboration that led Scianna to define the Sicilian writer as 'a second father'. The collection of images by Carla Cerati (1927-2016) is wider: the 88 photos on display - from the Cerati collection at the Csac in Parma - portray characters that she was able to frequent: writers (Calvino, Pasolini, Marquez, Vargas Llosa , among others), artists, architects,people of the theater (a series of images of the Living Theater with the typical contortions of bodies and faces are memorable). Equally significant are the nudes of women in black and white, in which one captures how different the female gaze on the woman's body is from the male one, and the landscapes, especially those of the Langhe, which evoke the atmospheres of Cesare Pavese and Beppe Fenoglio. and that are in tune with the research on the sign in art and photography of the Sixties.which evoke the atmospheres of Cesare Pavese and Beppe Fenoglio and which are in tune with the research on the sign in the art and photography of the 1960s.which evoke the atmospheres of Cesare Pavese and Beppe Fenoglio and which are in tune with the research on the sign in the art and photography of the 1960s.