Backhaus, on display photographic stories beyond fashion - Lifestyle

Portraits that speak of the world of fashion and design, but not only.

Nature and ordinary people immortalized by a female photographic eye looking beyond the lens.

" is the title of the exhibition, set up from 31 March in the Chagall rooms of the Castle of Casale Monferrato (Alessandria), curated by Luciano Bobba and Angelo Ferrillo, with the artistic direction of Mariateresa Cerretelli, which pays homage to Maria Vittoria Backhaus (1942), a leading photographer for fashion, design and accessories such as jewellery, objects and food.

    The exhibition, which takes place in the interlude year of the Casale Monferrato Biennial of Photography, the first season of the Middle MonFest, celebrates the brilliant creative personality of Maria Vittoria Backhaus, from her beginnings as a photographer in the 1970s to the contemporary.

The images of the photographic exhibition, which will be open to the public until 11 June, reflect counter-current interpretations made for fashion, design and portraiture, with a remarkable production of still lifes and artistic constructions that express the versatility of a great protagonist Italian of photography, Milanese by birth and Piedmontese by adoption.

    A kaleidoscopic gallery of images reveals the author's creativity in the round.

Explosive, experimental and revolutionary for the times, animated by a

and always one step ahead of the classicism of the images prevailing in glossy magazines or in advertising campaigns from the 70s to today, the artist/photographer is rightfully placed among the leading names in Italian photography.

The main themes of an ever-in-progress story highlight clothes and accessories, design, nature, figurines, collages and scenographic compositions built with miniatures of buildings and puppets.

Over forty years of photography in which reportage and portraits are completed with dedicated stories among which the inhabitants of Filicudi stand out, the island loved by the photographer and, more recently, Rocchetta Tanaro and its Monferrato people.

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