Michele Smargiassi

Recent years have witnessed the expansion and hybridisation of artistic practices that now take confront huge and inexpert audiences to offer them an exploration of places characterised by a shared and plural dimension. Driven by the same civic commitment that fuelled the season of patronage, photographers, curators and cultural professionals reactivate the consolidated languages and contexts of photography with immense freedom and new projects in a collective and multidisciplinary sense.

Matteo Balduzzi, who trained as an architect, is a curator in the field of public art and photography, which he sees primarily as a means for establishing relations between people, the environment and memory. He works stably with the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Milano-Cinisello Balsamo, managing its calendar of events that revolves around the keywords collection, young people and community.

Benedetta Cestelli Guidi is an art and photography critic. She has published Photographs at the Frontier. Aby Warburg in America 1895 – 1896. Working with Leonardo Palmieri and Matteo di Castro, she curated s.t. foto libreria galleria's events calendar from 2008 to 2011. She curated Valentina Vannicola's L’Inferno di Dante, Fabio Barile's exhibition Osservare la terra. Un progetto fotografico a confronto con gli archivi fotografici storici dell’ICCD, and edited Antonio di Cecco's publication In pieno vuoto. She took part in the Archivio Bellosguardo project in 2019.

Giulia Ticozzi works in the field of images through the design of workshops, public works of art and photographic research. She has produced projects commissioned by the MuFoCo and the Istituto Beni culturali Emilia-Romagna. She has shown at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in an exhibition entitled Altro dalle immagini. Da Guarene all'Etna 2014. She worked on Exposed, a multidisciplinary project on themes associated with the World Fair 2015. She took part in a collective project entitled The third Island in 2016. She is La Repubblica's photo editor.

Informazioni

Admission free while places last. Places for conversations, round tables and screenings will be assigned from one hour before the start of each event. Reservations may be made by membership card holders only. There will no further admission once the event has started.

Sala Cinema

Admission via steps in via Milano 9A