From 19 October 2024 to 5 January 2025 Fondazione Biscozzi | Rimbaud in Lecce will present the exhibition Apulia in the photos of the Agency Magnum Photos curated by Walter Guadagnini, photographic historian and Manager of CAMERA – Italian Centre of Photography in Turin.

This will be the seventh exhibition event since 2022, of the institute founded in 2018 by the couple Luigi Biscozzi and Dominique Rimbaud with the intent of promoting modern and contemporary art through a program of exhibitions which have involved, so far, protagonists such as Angelo Savelli (The white artist’s, 2021), Salvatore Sava (The other sculpture, 2022), Grazia Varisco (Perceptual sensitivities, 2022-2023), Mirco Marchelli (Voices in chapter, 2022-2023), Yuval Avital (Lucus, 2023-2024), Vittorio Matino (And colour bursts into flame, 2024).

35 photographs of 12 photographers – Ian Berry, Bruno Barbey, Stuart Franklin, Burt Glinn, Harry Gruyaert, David Hurn, Guy Le Querrec, Herbert List, Martin Parr, David Seymour, Ferdinando Scianna, Patrick Zachmann – tell us about the History of Puglia, its landscape and its inhabitants thanks to the lenses of some of the greatest protagonists of Magnum Photos, the most famous photography agency in the world.

The exhibition is an authentic ideal voyage through space and time: an itinerary developed through History, people, landscapes and architectures that goes from the immediate post-war period to nowadays and from Gargano to Lecce.

It goes from the black and white tones of David Seymour (Warsaw 1911 – El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya 1956), one of the historical founders of Magnum in 1947 together with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, of Herbert List (Hamburg 1903 – Monaco di Baviera 1975), the great German photographer particularly attached to Mediterranean and of David Hurn (Redhill, 1934), that tell us about the difficulties of the post-war period and the renaissance of the Fifties and the Sixties, to the colour of Ian Berry (Huddersfield 1934) and Burt Glinn (Pittsburgh 1925 – Southampton, New York 2008), fascinated by the nature and the architectural peculiarities of the region, to return than to the black and white tones of Bruno Barbey (Morocco, 1941 – Orbais-l'Abbaye 2020), Stuart Franklin (London 1956), Guy Le Querrec (Paris, 1941), that tell us, at different times, about those jobs related to the sea and to the land. Martin Parr (Epsom 1952) immortalized ironically our days with the rampant mass tourism, while, Patrick Zachmann (Choisy-le-Roi 1955) and Harry Gruyaert (Anvers 1941) capture the contemporary everyday life with poetical nostalgia.

All these authors are accompanied ideally by Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria 1943), who has filmed cities and farmlands of Apulia for more than thirty years, narrating the architectural and ideal persistence, and the changes of one of the most fascinating regions of Italy.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated trilingual catalogue (in Italian, French and English), published by Dario Cimorelli Editore, containing the reproduction of all the works exhibited and essential biographical notes of the authors, with a foreword by the curator Walter Guadagnini.

INFORMATION SHEET

Exhibition: Apulia in the photos of the Agency Magnum Photos

Curated by: Walter Guadagnini

Exhibition Venue: Fondazione Biscozzi | Rimbaud ETS, piazzetta Baglivi 4, 73100 Lecce – spaces are fully accessible to disabled

Public Opening: 19 October 2024 - 5 January 2025

Timetable: till 3 November: from Tuesday to Sunday, 5pm – 9pm. Closed on Monday.
Open on Friday 1 November.
From 5 November: from Tuesday to Sunday, 4pm – 7pm. Closed on Monday.

Full Ticket: € 8,00; reduced: € 5,00 (for groups of more than 15 people, children under 18, school groups (primary and secondary schools), students at university, art academies and conservatories with booklets, teachers. Free admission: for children up to 6 years old, disabled (and a companion), a companion for each group, tourist guides, journalists with ID cards.

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Exhibition in partnership with Magnum Photos.