{"id":144240,"date":"2025-08-26T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/08\/los-angeles-mario-cresci-loro-del-tempo\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:43:41","slug":"los-angeles-mario-cresci-loro-del-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/08\/los-angeles-mario-cresci-loro-del-tempo\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, \u201cMario Cresci. The Gold of Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photographic exhibition <em>\u201cMario Cresci. The Gold of Time\u201d<\/em> (curated by Francesca <strong>Fabiani<\/strong>, with exhibition design and graphics by Etaoin Shrdlu Studio), the result of a collaboration between the <strong>ICCD \u2013 Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation<\/strong> in <strong>Rome<\/strong> and the <strong>Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles<\/strong>, is open to the public at 1023 Hilgard Avenue <strong>until 11 October 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was <strong>funded<\/strong> through a call promoted by the <strong>Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture<\/strong>, aimed at enhancing contemporary Italian photography worldwide through the network of Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this exhibition, we are bringing to Los Angeles not only the work of a great master of Italian photography, but also a <strong>meditation on time<\/strong>, memory and the transformative power of the artistic gaze. <strong>Mario Cresci plays with images from the past to reveal new meanings<\/strong>, showing how the archive is not merely a place of preservation but also a ground for invention. <strong>Italian tradition becomes a contemporary code<\/strong>. A powerful message in a city that has made image both its language and its identity\u201d, said Emanuele <strong>Amendola<\/strong>, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition presents the work created by Mario Cresci as part of the <strong>ICCD\/Artists in Residence<\/strong> programme, which invites <strong>leading photographers to engage with the Institute\u2019s historical collections<\/strong>. Reawakening the layered meanings of the photographs preserved at the ICCD through the <strong>perspective of a contemporary artist<\/strong> is one of the most fruitful ways of bringing to life these immense image archives\u2014<strong>more than eight million photographic items<\/strong>\u2014by repositioning them in the present day.<\/p>\n<p>The works on display include a series of black-and-white prints that interpret and re-elaborate, in a playful and experimental key, <strong>two historic photographic collections of the ICCD united by the centrality of the human figure<\/strong>, the guiding thread of this project: the portraits of high society at the <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> by Mario Nunes <strong>Vais<\/strong> and the documentary photographs of <strong>Greco-Roman<\/strong> statuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photographic exhibition \u201cMario Cresci. The Gold of Time\u201d (curated by Francesca Fabiani, with exhibition design and graphics by Etaoin Shrdlu Studio), the result of a collaboration between the ICCD \u2013 Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation in Rome and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, is open to the public at 1023 Hilgard [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":144199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-144240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144242,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144240\/revisions\/144242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}