Renovated and more accessible: the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cinisello Balsamo reopens to the public on 24 February with two days of events to celebrate its twentieth birthday, the MuFoCo20Fest.
The spaces of Villa Ghirlanda, rearranged with Pnrr funds based on a project by the Dotdotdot studio, now allow visitors, thanks to an immersive installation, to navigate through the museum's collection which houses two million works in 40 photographic funds, and also to consult the programs of activities and initiatives .
On the occasion of the reopening, the exhibition 'I would like to tell this memory' was set up, the last photographic series created by Mario Giacomelli before his death in 2000.
In the exhibition curated by Katiuscia Biondi Giacomelli, which will remain visible until 19 May, there are 66 vintage images, 400 auditions but also negatives and an unedited video made by his son-in-law.
For Giacomelli these images were a sort of interior journey.
"He did everything to exorcise Death - underlined the curator, who is the artistic director of the Giacomelli archive -, trying to intertwine the paths, to disperse the flow of time. And when he found himself faced with it, he left a trace of his presence live and call her I would like to tell this memory, to continue telling, ad infinitum".
The volume published by Skinnerbox' Mario Giacomelli will also be presented on the 24th.
I would like to tell this memory' curated by Milo Montelli with Katiuscia Biondi, and a conference dedicated to disability will be held with the screening of the feature film 'Everything has its gaze'.
On Sunday 25th, "CheLotteria!" will be held.
together with the international visual artist IlariaTurba, the prizes collected and donated (images, drawings, paintings, writings, music...) by the many citizens that the artist has met in the last two months in the area, will be up for grabs through the lottery and will constitute an artistic installation that will be donated to the Museum.
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