Artists: Andrea Abati, Luca Andreoni, Olivo Barbieri, Paolo Bernabini, Cristiano Berti, Antonio Biasiucci, Leonora Bisagno, Maria Luisa Calosso, Luca Campigotto, Silvia Camporesi, Daniele De Lonti, Sabine Delafon, Martina Della Valle, Donatella Di Cicco, Gianni Ferrero Merlino, Michela Formenti, Vittore Fossati, Eva Frapiccini, Carlo Furgeri Gilbert, Luigi Gariglio, Alice Grassi, Francesco Jodice, Francesca Lazzarini, Renato Leotta, Tancredi Mangano, Valentina Mezzanatto, Pino Musi, Carmelo Nicosia, Enzo Obiso, Francesca Rivetti, Elisabetta Senesi, Alessandra Spranzi, Francesco Zucchetti
Da Guarene all’Etna 1999-2009 is an exhibition to celebrate 10 years of the exhibiting project Da Guarene all’Etna, a review about Italian photography curated by Filippo Maggia for Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo since 1999.
“For ten years Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has focused its attention on young Italian photography. Da Guarene all’Etna 1999-2009 confirms the Foundation's engagement in supporting and promoting emerging authors. In 1998, 15 artists were given the task to redesign the landscape and the social and cultural geography of Italy. The result was an exhibition entitled Da Guarene all’Etna, via mare, via terra, presented in 1999 in Taormina and subsequently presented in Modena in 2000, in Milan in 2001, and, in 2002 – in a new version entitled Da Guarene all’Etna, 02 – at the Italian Pavillion of the Venice Biennale. During these 10 years, from the first exhibition in Taormina to today, many of the names we introduced, and many others we supported in the following editions, have become widely acknowledged, and are now among the protagonists of the Italian and even, in some cases, international contemporary art scene”. (Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo)
Da Guarene all’Etna, a unique project on the Italian art scene, was born with the specific purpose of promoting the research of young artists, and over the years has grown to be a regular occasion for testing and discovering home talents, and has always avoided to narrow down its focus to specific sectors of the photographic language, which today is more varied than ever. On the contrary, it progressively widened its spectrum, to embrace all variants of photography, which is one of today's most widespread means of communication worldwide.
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo will host a large selection of works relating to the current research of all the artists who have been selected in the past ten years to participate in this ongoing project.
The exhibition therefore sets a first, important point of reference in a campaign for the promotion and support of Italian photography.
Following the program of the previous editions, Da Guarene all’Etna 1999-2009 will also feature new works that some of the artists were commissioned by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo especially for the occasion.
The artists include: Luca Andreoni, Martina Della Valle, Donatella Di Cicco, Alice Grassi, Francesco Jodice, Francesca Lazzarini, Renato Leotta, Gianni Ferrero Merlino, Francesca Rivetti
