Friday 23 June at 6 p.m. at Villa Manin di Passariano will be inaugurated the photographic exhibition “Il roseto. Esercizi sui piccoli luoghi“, by Andrea Pertoldeo.
Organised by ERPAC FVG, the exhibition will remain open to the public until 17 September 2023 and will propose an itinerary of thirty photographs, which will become for the visitor a reason for silent reflection on space, light and the colours of the day. A real exercise in looking and attention, to meditate on the gravitas of photography in the modest existence of small places.
The images exhibited are already part of the volume Il roseto. Esercizi sui piccoli luoghi (The rose garden. Exercises on small places), published by Quodilibet in 2022 and produced by Andrea Pertoldeo himself for the photographic part and Antonello Frongia for the text.
The theme of Andrea Pertoldeo’s photographic research is the contemporary landscape and its transformations both locally and globally. Over the years, the artist has in fact dedicated projects to the Tagliamento, as well as to the Bahrain desert.
Through the thirty images in the exhibition, it will be possible to observe a rose garden and the ground on which it grows: a ‘small place’, as it is defined in the exhibition’s subtitle. The rose garden portrayed is not in the full splendour of spring flowering; on the contrary, we see it in late winter, as witnessed by the snow surrounding it, when the stems are still bare and twisted. But it is precisely the distance from the commonplace of the flowering rose garden, of the colourful rose amidst the bright green of the leaves, that restores identity to the plants and the place where they grow. From the commonplace to the small place, with a precise characterisation.
For more than two decades, Andrea Pertoldeo’s research has focused on the contemporary landscape and its transformations on a local and global scale. He has published, among others, Tagliamento (2002), A una certa distanza (2006) and Blue Dust (2017), an investigation into the anthropised desert of Bahrain, seen through the human condition of workers. Most recently, he collaborated on the projects Red Desert Now! Antonioni’s legacy in contemporary Italian photography (Linea di Confine, 2017), The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (National Gallery of Canada, 2019), Laguna futuri (Iuav, 2021) and Jobs. Forms and Spaces of Work. An interdisciplinary investigation in central Emilia (Linea di Confine-Quodlibet, 2022).
He teaches photography at the Iuav University of Venice, where in 2015 he founded, with Stefano Graziani, the Iuav Master in Photography. In 2018 he curated the photography section at Arte Fiera Bologna, directed by Angela Vettese.
Opening hours
From 24 June to 17 September 2023
Mondays to Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 07:00 p.m.
Special opening 15 August
