\u00a0Italy and its landscapes depicted in the stills of renowned Italian photographers. That\u2019s the subject of the exhibition \u201cAffacciati sulla bellezza\u201d (A view on beauty) set up by the Italian Institute of Culture\u00a0in\u00a0Prague, inaugurated by\u00a0Italy\u2019s Ambassador Francesco Saverio Nisio.\u00a0The protagonist of the 130 photographs\u00a0is the Italian landscape, \u201cone of the assets that make our peninsula a unique place in the world\u201d, Mr Nisio said while inaugurating the exhibition, curated by Walter Liva and Roberto Mutti, together with Enrico Sarcinelli, president of the Photography Archive and Research Centre. The\u00a0show\u00a0\u2013\u00a0which is part of the events organised to celebrate the centennial of the opening of the Italian Embassy in Prague, which itself marked the beginning of diplomatic relations between the two countries \u2013 focuses on Italy \u201cin order to highlight the beauty of the Italian landscape through the indisputable artistic and aesthetic value of the works on display\u201d, Mr Nisio added. The pictures on display point out how the landscape \u2013 meaning the shades of its natural and human elements \u2013 has been\u00a0framed, depending on the different schools of thought the photographers followed. Pictures range from Ferruccio Leiss\u2019s night views of an unreal Venice to the photographs taken by Giuseppe Cavalli, Alfredo Camisa, Giuseppe Moder (which recall Croce\u2019s aesthetic principles), to the\u00a0stills of the members of the Venice Photography Club \u2018La Gondola\u2019 (including\u00a0Gianni Berengo Gardin, Elio Ciol, Fulvio Roiter)\u00a0and to photographs taken by landscape experts of the Italian Touring Club, such as\u00a0Toni Nicolini\u00a0and\u00a0Francesco Radino.\u00a0For renowned maestros like Mario Giacomelli, landscape is strongly linked to literature, while Franco Fontana\u00a0considers it\u00a0an enchanted land, somehow reminiscent of the Renaissance. Other images include pictures taken by\u00a0Guido Guidi\u00a0and\u00a0Luigi Ghirri\u00a0and the latter\u2019s criticism of the \u201cpostcard view\u201d that took root in the seventies. Then we have Giuseppe Leone\u2019s beauty and cultural richness of the Mediterranean and\u00a0the depiction of\u00a0the urban dimension,\u00a0as imagined\u00a0by\u00a0Gabriele Basilico, Mario Cresci, Olivo Barbieri, Luca Campigotto, Virgilio Carnisio, Vittore Fossati\u00a0and\u00a0Marco Zanta. Mimmo Jodice\u00a0prefers to zero-in on the environmental issues of his hometown, Naples, while\u00a0Luca Maria Patella\u00a0and\u00a0Marcello Di Donato\u00a0illustrate a fantasy-like landscape.<\/p>\n
The exhibition,\u00a0promoted\u00a0by the Italian Embassy and by the Italian Institute of Culture in Prague, together with the CRAF of Spilimbergo, the Fruili Venezia Giulia regional government and the Fototeca 3M in Milan, will be open to the public until 5 May. It will then move to Slovakia, where it will be hosted by the Culture Ministry from 3 to 19 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Italy and its landscapes depicted in the stills of renowned Italian photographers. That\u2019s the subject of the exhibition \u201cAffacciati sulla bellezza\u201d (A view on beauty) set up by the Italian Institute of Culture\u00a0in\u00a0Prague, inaugurated by\u00a0Italy\u2019s Ambassador Francesco Saverio Nisio.\u00a0The protagonist of the 130 photographs\u00a0is the Italian landscape, \u201cone of the assets that make our peninsula […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-60272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}