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The gaze of three great photographers to tell a changing landscape: Olivo Barbieri, Paola De Pietri and Petra Noordkamp are the first artists involved in the "Terre in Movimento" project, curated by Pippo Ciorra and Carlo Birrozzi (Superintendent of the Marche), in collaboration with Cristiana Colli, at MAXXI from 11 May to 1 September 2019.
Three authors for a photographic commission on the Marche landscape devastated by the 2016 earthquake, which wants to return the image of places, works of art, ruins, fragile temporary settlements and people who live there. The project is promoted by the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the Marche, in collaboration with the MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts and with the Maritime Property Association. Km-278. Presented for the first time to the public last December in Ancona, in the Church of San Gregorio Illuminatore, the exhibition now arrives at MAXXI, a new stage in the research path on photography strongly supported by Giovanna Melandri, President of the MAXXI Foundation. "With Terre in Movimento we have continued a line of action that has always integrated the promotion of photographic language and the enhancement of authors with the conception of the museum as a dynamic agent, an actor who comes out of his" home "to explore and dialogue actively with the territory »- says Margherita Guccione, Director of MAXXI Architecture.
At the end of the exhibition, in fact, the projects on display will enrich the museum's photography collections. The exhibition The “moving lands” in which the client is located are the internal areas of the provinces of Macerata, Ascoli Piceno and Fermo, hit between August and October 2016 by a swarm of violent earthquakes. Lands with a unique heritage of landscape, artistic and architectural beauties, on which the earthquake has imposed a double, lacerating loss: not only has it destroyed buildings, houses, monuments, but at the same time has undermined the cultural fabric of the community, that an intangible bond that is produced daily by the interaction between men and places hit by the catastrophe. The three artists involved by the Superintendency of the Marche and the MAXXI immediately set out on the trail of this wounded memory. Through the still or moving image they not only tried to tell the drama of ruins and destruction, but rather focused on relationships: between people and the territory, between damaged and reconstructed buildings, between the sites from which the assets and works of art have been rescued and those in which they are currently kept. Their research has returned three author projects, characterized by a heterogeneity of attitudes, temperaments and languages. Olivo Barbieri 's project faces openly the traumas of the territory, oscillating between three different and complementary points of observation: the one from above, which shows the extent of the disaster on a large scale; those from below, in which it seems possible to still identify with the Renaissance perspectives that have drawn the landscape of Italian urban culture, and the close-up of the objects of art, recovered from the rubble and given back to a new life. Paola De Pietri investigates the relationship between the destroyed everyday places, the new spaces of intimacy to be built in the temporary settlements and the people who live there. De Pietri photographed the houses torn apart by the earthquake, the objects found, registered and cataloged in the deposits, the construction sites for the construction of new temporary homes, imagining them above all as family and intimate spaces that have been shattered and not yet reconstituted. Finally, Petra Noordkamp 's gaze works directly on the “trauma”, it rests on the signs of the passage and the sudden interruption of time, on the persistence of memory and on the traces it leaves. The artist initially focuses on the territory of Arquata del Tronto and Visso, exploring the private homes that have been destroyed but still full of objects, to which to give attention, recording and preserving their memory. Noordkamp, whose project was also realized thanks to the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands, then visits the warehouses of Ancona and San Severino Marche where hundreds of sculptures and paintings saved from the devastated churches are kept, portraying them packed in archival paper and bubble wrap. «The lens is not focused on this or that subject but on something immaterial, which is suspended over the places, which is more at risk every day, and which is still waiting to be“ restored ”. Or that we are all trying to restore anyway. - says Pippo Ciorra - The merit of the three artists is to have immediately understood this condition, and to have prepared themselves immediately to try to grasp the wounded spirit of these places. " "Terre in Movimento" is a context of broad reflection on the transformations of the landscape as the result of a cultural heritage and relationships , without which no model of culturally driven development can be conceived or built. The work of the three artists involved does not only represent compensation for the territory, but has the ambition to initiate a wider artistic research with more voices on the metamorphosis of the Marche landscape. «This experience is characterized in all respects as a prototype that places value at the center of its actions - explains Superintendent Carlo Birrozzi - the value of the existing heritage, of authorial projects different by means and language; the opportunity for the construction of new public heritage and collecting at the disposal of local and professional, national and international communities; of the process of cultural planning of the supply chain that involved artists, publishers, communicators, architects in the project that sees the exhibition as a further multiplier of opportunities to rethink not only the areas of the earthquake. " The project is described in a rich publication published by Quodlibet, with texts by Giovanna Melandri, Carlo Birrozzi, Stefano Catucci, Pippo Ciorra, Cristiana Colli, Margherita Guccione, Emanuele Marcotullio.

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