Umberto Pizzi, press photographer and photo-reporter is famous for the ability to capturing the craziness of the worst of contemporary society.
After having immortalised the decadent nobility of Rome in the 1950-60s, he received the Political Satire Award in 2009 and is today the protagonist of the exhibition on show from 12 April at Museum of Satire in Forte dei Marmi.
The exhibition of 100 colours photos “Facce d’Italia”, presents portraits not of the protagonists of the jet set of a long lost time but of the most recent and disturbing political history of the last twenty years.
“the faces express an involuntary (and threatening) comicality that with time is revealed as anticipatory of more unpleasant truths. In the choice priority is given not only to the subject but also to the photographic quality. The shot and the flash. Where the faces and light recreate the perfect harmony of a classical painting, individual or group portraits in an interior, courtiers, dwarfs and court jesters like in a baroque oil painting.” (Micol Veller Fornasa)
The exhibition runs from 12 April (inauguration 18.00) to 15 June, with free admission.
Catalogue available at exhibition and ebook downloadable from www.museosatira.it.
Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, bank holidays: 15.30/19.30.
Sunday also 10.00/13.00.
Details:
Museum of Satire
Forte di Leopoldo I – Piazza Garibaldi
55042 Forte dei Marmi LU
tel. 0584 280262 (Secretary c/o Forte dei Marmi Town Council)
tel. 0584 876277 (Museum)
The exhibition “Umberto Pizzi. Facce d’Italia” is curated by Micol Veller Fornasa.
Catalogue text written by Filippo Ceccarelli and Pasquale Chessa.
Cinzia Bibolotti and Franco Calotti, Artistic Direction of the Museum, have also collaborated in the putting on of the exhibition.