{"id":146626,"date":"2025-09-11T14:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/09\/copenaghen-paolo-simonazzi-in-mostra-con-mondo-piccolo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:01:52","slug":"copenaghen-paolo-simonazzi-in-mostra-con-mondo-piccolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/09\/copenaghen-paolo-simonazzi-in-mostra-con-mondo-piccolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen, Paolo Simonazzi exhibits \u201cMondo Piccolo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen<\/strong>, in collaboration with the <strong>Embassy of Italy in Copenhagen<\/strong>, hosted the exhibition \u201c<strong>Mondo Piccolo<\/strong>\u201d by photographer <strong>Paolo Simonazzi<\/strong>, curated by Andrea Tinterri. The exhibition stems from the eponymous project launched by the photographer from Emilia in 2006 \u2014 a journey to rediscover the lands beloved by writer Giovannino Guareschi. These are not merely geographical places, but emotional landscapes \u2014 places of the soul. Simonazzi&#8217;s photographs succeed in reconstructing a visual world that transcends nostalgic longing for a lost past, offering instead a renewed and autonomous imagination. \u201cMondo Piccolo\u201d is a tribute that revives and reinterprets a narrative, bringing it into the present with cultural vividness and immediacy. It draws on the stories of men and women who have long inhabited these lands, on the more recent stories of migrants, and on the <strong>life<\/strong> of the provinces <strong>between Parma, Reggio Emilia and Mantua.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guareschi\u2019s writing remains in the background<\/strong>, a phantasmagorical presence upon which new iconographic narratives are built. One can sense the echoes of Cesare Zavattini, Bernardo Bertolucci \u2014 the poet, but above all the director of 1900 \u2014 and perhaps even Luigi Ghirri, in an ideal continuity of photographic perspective, as well as early Nino Migliori and his neorealist digressions. A complex cultural fabric emerges, offering a meaningful subtext for reconstructing the landscape and its history.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his visual research, <strong>Paolo Simonazzi brings to the surface subtle narratives<\/strong>, marginal episodes in which provincial life expresses itself with ironic intelligence. And it matters little whether this is in the Po Valley or elsewhere, because \u2014 to quote Gianni Celati:\u00a0<em>\u201cWell, the provinces are not, first and foremost, a clearly defined place, but a state of mind. Travelling through the provinces \u2014 in Europe as in Africa \u2014 is a passion in itself\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Cultural Institute of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Copenhagen, hosted the exhibition \u201cMondo Piccolo\u201d by photographer Paolo Simonazzi, curated by Andrea Tinterri. The exhibition stems from the eponymous project launched by the photographer from Emilia in 2006 \u2014 a journey to rediscover the lands beloved by writer Giovannino Guareschi. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":146596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-146626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146626","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146629,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146626\/revisions\/146629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}