MARTIN PARR, Exhibition MUDEC - Museum of Cultures, Milan

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MARTIN PARR:

"Breve e dolce" Translation: Short and sweet

From 10 February to 28 July 2024

MUDEC - Museum of Cultures

Via Tortona, 56, Milan

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His gaze is immediately recognizable, a magnifying glass with vibrant colors that creates stories starting from reality, capturing authentic and often eccentric moments of daily life, grasping the essence of a place or situation through the search for the perfect detail, offering a unique and often provocative perspective of contemporary society. Martin Parr (born in 1952) - undoubtedly one of the most established and recognized British documentary photographers of our time - chooses Mudec Photo for an exhibition project curated directly by him together with Magnum Photos, with which the Museum of Cultures in Milan continues the successful collaboration on reportage and documentary photography started in 2022 with exhibitions on Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. This new project focuses on subjects told to the visitor in full coherence with the renewed vision of the Museum, which for two years now has been increasingly focused on anthropological themes and the narration of art visions through contemporary languages. Through a photographic chronicle without filters and outside rhetoric, the exhibition path opens 'in black and white', with the series The Non-Conformists, images taken from 1975 to 1980 by an unpublished, young and inspired Parr, just after finishing art school. For this project, at the age of twenty-three, Martin Parr, together with his companion (and future wife) Susie Mitchell, moves from the London metropolis to the outskirts of Yorkshire. For five years, the couple daily documents the events they witness, particularly those of the Non-Conformists, named after the Methodist and Baptist chapels that were becoming numerous in the area. Martin photographs both the surrounding environment and the lives of blue-collar workers, miners, farmers, devotees, gamekeepers, pigeon breeders, and "henpecked husbands", creating a historical and touching document that defines the fiercely independent character of northern England from the Anglicism of the State.

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MARTIN PARR:

"Breve e dolce" Translation: Short and sweet

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