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Un secolo di grande fotografia
I capolavori FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria – UniCredit Art
Collection
Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Magnani
2 May – 13 July 2014
Curated by Margit Zuckriegl and Walter Guadagnini
Herbert Bayer © Herbert Bayer, by SIAE 2014
Courtesy Museum der Moderne Salzburg
For further information and pictures: www.studioesseci.net
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150 photos that tell the history of photography, from the late 19 century to the mid-20
century, through the greatest artists ever: Man Ray, Paul Strand, André Kertész, Edward
Weston and lots more.
Promoted and organised by the Museum of Modern Art of Salzburg and Fondazione
Palazzo Magnani of Reggio Emilia, and curated by Margit Zuckriegl and Walter Guadagnini,
the exhibition includes 150 well-selected photographs from the prestigious “FOTOGRAFIS”
collection of Bank Austria – Gruppo UniCredit on a national preview at Palazzo Magnani,
Reggio Emilia, from 2 May to 13 July 2014.
“FOTOGRAFIS” is an exceptional collection in terms of numbers and quality of works,
consisting of over 600 photos collected over a decade between 1975 and 1985 and never
disjoined before, a collection that has remained untouched, as its founders had planned it. Since
2009, the collection has been on loan at the Museum of Modern Art of Salzburg where it is kept
and promoted and which hosted a great exhibition last October supported by a richly illustrated
catalogue.
The exhibition “Un secolo di grande fotografia. I capolavori FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria –
UniCredit Art Collection” at Palazzo Magnani presents, in an inimitable sequence, the
evolution of photography from the origins to the Seventies: it starts with the pioneers of
the medium, such as Nadar, and the first great artists, from Frances Frith to Eadweard
Muybridge, from Bertall to Frederick Evans, through to Julia Margaret Cameron. The first,
wonderful photographic evidence of journeys in the East, and, with it, the wish to tell about the
daily life, to make good likenesses as never before, the instant competition with painting. Then it
goes on with the big names of the Pictorialist season, one of the most fascinating and crucial
ages in the evolution of the photographic language into art: this section hosts such famous
artists as Heinrich Kühn, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, František Drtikol, with works that are
veritable masterpieces of the photographic art of the first decades of the XX century.
The highlight of the exhibition is probably the one that comes just after that season, the socalled modernist or avant-garde photography. This section includes the names of Eugène
Atget, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, Herbert Bayer, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, André
Kertész, August Sander, Walker Evans, the authors that have made not only the history of
photography but the collective imagination of the century. Man Ray’s rayographs, Kertész’s
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distortions, Sander’s portraits are all 20 -century icons, they have left their mark on generations
of photographers, artists, advertising people and, all together, they have made an unforgettable
portrait of those years and that historical and social scene. There are other authors as well,
maybe less well known to the public at large but extremely talented for an exhaustive overview
of the photographic scene between the 1920s and the 1930s.
Reporters’ photography and that which is closely connected with the events of the time are
aptly represented by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke White, Weegee, Lee Friedlander,
Elliot Erwitt and lots more, as evidence of the will to put together the many voices and the many
souls of photography: this is the principle that leads us into the postwar period, above all the
1960s and the 1970s, with outstanding artists, such as Otto Steinert, Mario Giacomelli, Diane
Arbus, Arnulf Rainer, ideally closing the boundary between documentary photography and
conceptual photography and marking the beginning of a new season.
An event that cannot be missed by keen photographers or anyone who wants to go
though the history of photography in its greatest expressions.
Authors include: Nadar, Fenton, Muybridge, Carroll, Bertall, Frith, Frederick Evans,
Steichen, Kuhn, Nahr, Cameron, D'ora, Coburn, Rusizcka, Rossler, Taborski, Novak,
Mucha, Drtikol, Weston, Atget, Bellocq, Fleischmann, Benda, Sander, Henle, Renger
Patzsch, Becher, Rubelt, Mantz, Hoffmann, Lukas, Blossfeldt, Seidenstucker, Stieglitz,
Hine, Strand, Walker Evans, Bourke White, Weston, Funke, Outerbridge, Loew,
Schawinsky, Weston, Steinert, Struwe, Bruguiere, Bayer, Man Ray, Rodcenko,
Hausmann, Kertesz, Tabard, Friedlander, Erwitt, Horst, Cartier-Bresson, Giacomelli,
Weegee, Arbus, Krims, Willman, Muller Pohle, Wachter, Export, Rainer, Becher.
Curated by Margit Zuckriegl and Walter Guadagnini, the exhibition is produced and promoted by
the Museum of Modern Art of Salzburg and Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, in partnership with
the Province of Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Pietro Manodori, Camera di Commercio di Reggio
Emilia, with the support of UniCredit, Landi Renzo spa and CCPL Reggio Emilia; media
partners: Radio LatteMiele, IBS Italcuscinetti.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
12.00_ Musei Civici_Palazzo San Francesco
Collezionare fotografie nell’età post-fotografica
Walter Guadagnini talks with Urs Stahel and Margit Zuckriegl
A Fotografia Europea conference, in partnership with Fondazione Palazzo Magnani.
A conference where Water Guadagnini, a historian of photography and chairman of the art
committee of UniCredit, will talk with Urs Stahel, the pioneer and for twenty years the director of
the Fotomuseum of Winterthur, currently in charge of collections at the new-born MAST in
Bologna, and with Margit Zuckriegl, curator of photography at the Museum der Moderne
Rupertinum of Salzburg. They will share their experiences and will talk about their collecting
styles, from the universalistic one of FOTOGRAFIS to the specialist one of MAST, in the attempt
to understand what collecting photographs means in an age in which the photographic object is
materialised and posted online while the photographic market has never been so wide as it is
now.
Promoted by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia in partnership with Fondazione Palazzo Magnani,
as part of Fotografia Europea.
The exhibition is part of FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 2014
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Un secolo di grande fotografia
I capolavori FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria – UniCredit Art Collection
Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Magnani
2 May – 13 July 2014
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
UniCredit Art Collection – Sammlung FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria – Museum der Moderne
Salzburg
Promoted by the Museum of Modern Art of Salzburg and Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, with the
support of UniCredit, in partnership with the Province of Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Pietro
Manodori, Camera di Commercio di Reggio Emilia, Sponsor: Landi Renzo spa, CCPL Reggio
Emilia and Casalgrande Padana; Media Partners: Radio LatteMiele, IBS Italcuscinetti.
Curated by Walter Guadagnini and Margit Zuckriegl
OPENING HOURS
2 May Public opening, 20.00 h to 23.00 h
3 May – 15 June
Tuesday to Thursday 10.00 h-13.00 h /16.00 h -19.00 h
Fridays, Saturdays and holidays 10.00 h -19.00 h
17 June – 13 July
Tuesday to Sunday 16.00 h - 23.00 h
Closed on Mondays
Special openings
17 May The European night of the museums 10.00 h -23.00 h
2 June, Feast of the Republic of Italy 10.00 h - 19.00 h
TICKETS
Regular € 9.00; Discounts € 7.00; Students € 5.00
(the ticket for the exhibition at Palazzo Magnani includes a discount ticket for FE 2014, and vice
versa)
GUIDED TOURS
Guided tours for groups of 2 to 20 people: 60.00 euros for the guided tour + discount ticket
Guided tours for groups of 21 to 26 people: 3.00 euros per person for the guided tour +
discount ticket
− Guided tours for groups of students: 2.00 euro euros for the guided tour + students’ discount
− Multilingual guided tours: 100 euro + discount ticket
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PLANNED GUIDED TOURS
3 May – 15 June: Every Saturday and Sunday at 16.00 h (3.00 euros + discount ticket – by
reservation only)
17 June – 13 July: Every Saturday and Sunday at 21.00 h (3.00 euros + discount ticket – by
reservation only)
FOR INFO:
Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
Corso Garibaldi, 29 – 42121 Reggio Emilia
Tel. 0522 454437 – 444446 / [email protected]
www.palazzomagnani.it