A 6-day full immersion educational experience in the beautiful town of Modica (RG) in Sicily with photographer Alex Majoli. The masterclass aims to improve the visual language, artistic and content autonomy of each student through critique, photography shoots, editing, and sequencing. The importance of the individual as a photographer, their history, experiences, and background are linked to the way the photographer captures a photograph. The goal of the masterclass is to nurture and enhance each student’s unique and personal photographic vision as much as possible.
It is also possible to book the Mentorship program, which offers a nine-month follow-up after the Modica masterclass. This program includes individual sessions (via video call, phone, and email) with Alex Majoli, where students will have the opportunity to regularly discuss their work, receive feedback, guidance, and deeper curatorship of their photographic practice. The focus is not only on the finalization of the work, but also on strengthening the student’s overall practice to achieve lasting, high-quality results over time.
Due to the nature of the workshop the number of participants is limited to 15
Cesura Publish team is about to jump on a train to Paris with boxes full of books for you! See you tomorrow at the Polycopies Book Fair in Paris and don’t miss the book signings with our photographers!
Concorde-Atlantique boat – Berges de Seine, Paris
Friday, November 8th, 6 p.m. :
Aqua by Maria Elisa Ferraris
Saturday, November 9th, 6 p.m. :
Mal de Mer by Claudio Majorana
You can explore our most recent releases and explore a unique collection of rare books, exclusively available for these limited days!
Thanks again to Premio Morrione for awarding our collective with the ‘Witness of the Roberto Morrione Prize’. The word witness for us at CESURA carries two meanings. The first is surely that of bearing witness and documenting with our work. The second is that of passing the torch, the founding practice of the collective. CESURA dedicates this award to Andy Rocchelli, photojournalist, co-founder of CESURA and fellow traveller in life. In the hope that also thanks to these important initiatives his story and the path to justice for his murder will not be forgotten but rather pursued.
Last Saturday, with these words, the association Amici del Premio Morrione gave the award to CESURA: “The Amici di Roberto Morrione association confers this award to the CESURA collective. Photography is an indispensable narrative tool for journalistic reporting. The work of the CESURA collective – interpreted by Andy Rocchelli in a careful and never trivial way – has been a clear testimony of this for over 15 years. Photography invites us to stop and take time to observe. With passion and integrity CESURA manages to create a space where we can look at reality and listen to its stories.”
We sincerely thanks the jury and Friends of Roberto Morrione Association for awarding CESURA with Testimone del Premio Roberto Morrione. We invite you to the exhibition curated by CESURA and Friends of Roberto Morrione Association that will open on Friday, October 25 at 6.30 p.m. at Libreria Binaria in Turin.
Libreria Binaria, Via Sestriere, 34, Torino
From 25 October – 23 November
Monday – Saturday
9 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Roberto Morrione Prize is promoted by Amici di Roberto Morrione Association, which organizes information campaigns, in-depth meetings and awareness-raising events mainly on issues and problems inherent to investigative journalism.
PROGRAM
25 October 2024
“IL GIORNALISMO CHE NON MUORE ANDY ROCCHELLI 2014-2024”
Talk with Arianna Arcara, Alessandra Ballerini, Carlo Bartoli, Giuseppe Giulietti, Riccardo Noury, Elisa Signori e Rino Rocchelli.
3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Fabbrica delle “E”, Corso Trapani, 91/b, TorinoIn
In collaboration withArticolo 21
26 October 2024
“TESTIMONI DEL NOSTRO TEMPO”
Talk with Arianna Arcara, collettivo Cesura
4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Fabbrica delle “E”, Corso Trapani, 91/b, Torino
by Maria Elisa Ferraris
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In Aqua, the sea, the water, is explored for its deep symbolic value. Through close and prolonged observation of its ceaseless motion, it thus becomes an emblem of a vertiginous inner dialogue with the unconscious, stemming from the need to move closer to the images—the eternal forms at the backbone of every experience—to understand ourselves and our relationship with the world.
Poem by Maria Elisa Ferraris
Translation and copy editing by Matilde Manicardi
Designed by Maria Caterina Lenti
Image mastery by Maria Elisa Ferraris
First edition of 700
ISBN 979-12-813960-3-6
Printed in Italy, November 2024
Hardback, Paper Symbol Tatami
7,8×8,6 in / 20×22 cm
80 pages, 34 photos
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PHOTOBUSTER AOSTA will be presented by the authors today October 15th at 4:00 PM at the Plus Aosta and will later be exhibited in an outdoor show on the streets of the city, running from October 22nd to November 4th.
In this edition of Photobuster, six photographers from our collective (Chiara Fossati, Giacomo Liverani, Giorgio Salimeni, Luca Santese, Marco P. Valli and Alex Zoboli) have documented the Aosta territory by exploring six distinct stories, each reflecting aspects of the city’s contemporary life and its surroundings.
Photobuster is a cultural photography residency project created by CESURA, aimed at documenting Italian and foreign territories with an artistic and independent approach. A diverse group of photographers focuses on a specific area for a defined period, producing pictures that are later selected and presented in an experimental installation at the end of the residency.
Project powered by the Municipality of Aosta.
Special thanks to the cultural councillor Samuele Tedesco and Alessandro Cimma for making this new edition of Photobuster possible.
“SanFa” exhibition by Chiara Fossati will be on display from 18 October 2024 to 18 January 2025 at Direzionale 70 in the show “Sguardi Civici sul quartiere – San Faustino” in collaboration with the city of Modena.
Opening 18 October 2024 at 5 p.m.
Direzionale 70, via Giardini 474, Modena
“SanFa” was born from the intense period spent in the San Faustino neighborhood, located a short distance from the historic center of Modena. In this context, time manifests as a dynamic interaction between tradition and modernity, giving life to a vibrant microcosm that preserves its popular soul and community spirit.
The deadline for the Andy Rocchelli Grant has been extended to 18th November 2024 11:59 p.m. UTC+1. This gives you more time to submit your project and take advantage of the opportunity to see your photobook realized with the support of CESURA PUBLISH.
Timeline:
18th November 2024 11:59 p.m. UTC+1
Closing date for applications
20th January 2025
Announcement of finalists
March 2025
Winner announcement and photo book launch
10th anniversary year of Andy Rocchelli’s death, Si Fest celebrates him with the exhibition “Russian interiors,” which will open on Friday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. at the “Dante Alighieri” elementary school at Corso Perticari 55/57.
Andy will also be remembered with the talk “The Last Witness, Meeting on Andy Rocchelli” with Elisa and Rino Rocchelli and Michele Smargiassi, to be held Saturday, Sept. 14 from 9-10:30 p.m. at Borghesi Square.
Below are the opening hours of the exhibition during the festival days:
Sept. 13, 6-24 p.m.
Sept. 14, 9 a.m.-24 p.m.
Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Sept. 21-22, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Sept. 28-29, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Starting in 2010, Andy Rocchelli spends a lot of time in Russia. He makes several photographic projects and to cover the costs of living in Moscow he begins to take photographs of women who, through Internet marriage agencies, are looking for husbands in their own country or abroad. The portraits are taken not in the studio, but in the homes of the photographed subjects and constitute a kind of “catalog” through which the women propose themselves to interested parties. Soon Andy realizes that this activity gives him access to an unknown, intimate and very human universe. Thus was born the idea of a wide-ranging project, at the center of which is the Russian woman and her condition.
Andy Rocchelli wrote in his notes, “What interests me, about this photographic archive that is becoming larger and larger, is the loss of identity of the subject. Catalogs are usually used to sell merchandise.”
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Picture by Claudio Majorana, Head of the Lion
For its 14th edition, Cortona on The Move will present the exhibition “Cronache d’Acqua. Immagini dal Nord Italia” A collective project by Arianna Arara, Chiara Fossati, Giacomo Liverani, Marco Zanella and Alex Zoboli, commissioned by Galleria d’Italia of Intesa Sanpaolo.
July 11, 2024
Fortezza del Girifalco via di Fortezza, Cortona (AR)
12 July – 4 PM: talk with Arianna Arcara and Marco Zanella on the project “Cronache d’Acqua. Immagini dal Nord Italia”
Ten interwoven stories paint an ideal journey of the water cycle, analyzing the different forms in which it manifests itself.
Similar to our bodies, where veins and arteries carry the vital fluid that circulates and sustains life, this project follows the currents that run through our Planet with the source as the primordial origin, passing through agriculture and industry. This happens as in the presence of a perennial system that feeds and contributes to life.
The stories that were made in Summer 2023 are progressively placed on an ideal map. This composes a visual atlas capable of remaining memory for the future.
The ‘buddies’ are usually the overshadowed characters in Shakespeare’s plays; not the villains, but those with few lines in the script. For the theater company Anellodebole, the ‘buddies’ are the young girls and guys who struggle to relate to the educational environment, from the infamous bullies to the shy creatives grappling to stand out.
In “Quelli che non vogliono stare qui [The ones who don’t want to be here],” Giorgio Salimeni offers us a glimpse of an artistic project and pedagogical experiment organized by Anellodebole in eight middle schools around the outskirts of Parma, Italy. Throughout one academic year, 26 students skipped a school day to dedicate themselves to art practice in a neutral, non-scholastic environment.
22 JUNE 2024 – SWEET SIXTEEN
Open Day Cesura
To celebrate our 16th birthday, on 22 June, we will open CESURA HQ doors in Pianello Val Tidone for a full OPEN DAY. There will be free portfolio reviews, talks, studio visits, exhibitions, music and beverages.
To book your portfolio review send an email to info@cesura.it indicating the photographer you would like to speak with, we will send you the time schedule.
There are still spots available for portfolio reviews, hurry up!
*Due to the date change the reviewers available will be: Arianna Arcara, Stefania Bosso, Maria Elisa Ferraris, Chiara Fossati, Claudio Majorana, Gabriele Micalizzi, Valentina Neri and Alex Zoboli.
We also ask all those enrolled in portfolio readings since the last date to confirm attendance.
See you in Val Tidone valley
Project supported by NextGenerationEu, Finanziamento dall’Unione europea, Ministero delle infrastrutture e dei Trasporti and Italiadomani Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza
next week Claudio Majorana will be at Micamera Milan for the talk and the book signing of his new book Mal de Mer.
Claudio will be in conversation with photographer Matteo Di Giovanni Come hear the story behind the book and get a signed copy.
See you on Wednesday June 19. Talk starts at 6.30 PM
Mal de Mer by Claudio Majorana delves into the theme of adolescence, exploring it as a pivotal stage where we first grapple with the personal issues that often shape our lives. After graduating in medicine with a thesis on social cognition during adolescence, Claudio chose to focus on photography to continue exploring the coming of age through his artistic practice and, just recently, by pursuing psychotherapy studies. Between youth summer camps, forests, cemeteries, and other arbitrary settings, Mal de Mer traces a nuanced coming of age in Vilnius and on the outskirts of Lithuania.
June 14 at 6 p.m. opens the exhibition “Il Vento Soffia Ma Io Rimango Qui” by Giorgio Salimeni outcome of a residency started in 2022 and completed in early June 2024 in the town of Bertinoro.
June 14 at 6 p.m.
Bertinoro, Emilia Romagna
Giorgio Salimeni was invited by the Paesaggi Plurali association to work photographically within the territory without predetermined stakes.
The result is a cross-sectional exploration that captures the life of the village on different levels of interpretation.
Part of the return will be open-air exhibition and part will be within the “Studio Aperto” set up and activated in conjunction with the residency.
One question has been a common thread throughout this journey, “What lights you up?”
Title of the exhibition courtesy of Arturo DiCamillo’s poem.
From 4th April until 28th June 2024, 29 Arts In Progress gallery is proud to present the works of Gabriele Micalizzi.
The Exhibition “A KIND OF BEAUTY”, puts on display the most significant shots depicting some of the venues of the biggest clashes of the last two decades, starting from the Arab revolutions, passing through the conflicts in the Middle Eastern against the caliphate through to the current conflicts in the Ukraine and Palestine.
Curated by Tina Castelluzzo, with an accompanying text by Corrado Formigli, the exhibition gives a glimpse in Gabriele’s photography “as not just capturing the absolute instant, the metaphorical frame of the whole. It is a constant search for the traces that the blood has covered. It is tenderness for what remains human even after the most heinous of massacres. Not only courage, so much courage in the most risky scenarios. Also constant remembrance, through digging through the debris, of what we were and what we could become again.”
Shakespeare’s Buddies – Quelli che non vogliono stare qui – exhibition by Giorgio Salimeni will open the 3rd of June at Centro Civico La Corte.
Centro Civico La Corte
Via Fratelli Cantini 8 – Traversetolo (PR)
Inauguration June 3rd at 6 p.m.
The project Shakespeare’s Buddies – Quelli che non vogliono stare qui is an artistic project and pedagogical experiment carried out by the Anello Debole company in collaboration with eight secondary schools in the province of Parma; for an entire year, 26 girls and boys who for various reasons have developed healthy antibodies to immobilizing school forms, work once a week during school hours in other spaces and through artistic means.
Giorgio Salimeni followed the project by documenting the journey of the buddies and their encounters.
Andy Rocchelli Grant is an international award, now in its second edition, promoted by CESURA in the name of its co-founder Andy Rocchelli, photojournalist killed in Ukraine in 2014. Andy was an irreplaceable fire starter, and to make sure that his values as a photographer and as a person can continue to burn, since 2021 CESURA has established a Grant in his name to allow an author or new talent to create a photographic book in full freedom of expression, as Andy would have wanted.
The purpose of the Grant is therefore to identify the best unpublished photographic dummy and award the winner with the production and publication of the book by Cesura Publish, the collective’s publishing house.
The first edition of the Grant received 126 applications from more than 25 countries and awarded the prize to Kanta Nomura with the publication of the photobook The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History with Cesura Publish.
Applications are open from May 24th, 2024 in commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of Andy’s passing.
The jury will meet in October 2024 to select a short list of finalists. In February 2025, the winning book will be announced, and launched.
There’s no entrance fee, no theme and you can send your dummy both printed or PDF.
Claudio Majorana will be part of the exhibition WHERE NATURE IS along with Mark Steinmetz, Irina Rozovski, Sasha Arutyunova and Arianna Sanesi at Rovinj Photodays Festival in Croatia.
“WHERE NATURE IS presents a selection of photographs by five authors who were involved in photography campaigns dedicated to the theme of nature in 2021. The photographic research placed a special emphasis on certain areas in Veneto and Puglia.
The topics of nature and environmental factors are increasingly present in the debate about the contemporary landscape, raising new questions about the diversity of forms through which nature communicates.
In “Parco Belloluogo”, Claudio Majorana studies an aspect of anthropomorphized nature, seeking in the eyes of the youth he encounters the reflections of untamed wilderness.”
Exhibition curated by Massimo Sordi and Stefania Rossl from Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est.
Opening May 17, 2:30 PM
𝗩𝗼𝗰𝗶 𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲. 𝗟𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼
by Arianna Arcara, Antonio Ottomanelli, and Roselena Ramistella is exhibited at Room 6 of CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, on the occasion of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival.
via delle Rosine 18, Torino
20 April – 2 June 2024
Everyday 11.00 – 19.00
(Thursday until 21.00)
With her work “Té, tèins, ten, tén, teins” Arcara has explored the connection between place and time through the creation of a visual archive consisting of fixed and changing images that will evolve over the course of days. These images capture characteristic figures, adolescents, celebrations, and unique situations of the Franco-Provençal communities of the Aosta Valley, highlighting attempts to adapt and translate customs and traditions from generation to generation.
Alongside this installation, there are videos shot by Arcara during her stay in the area, accompanied by sounds and texts reflecting on the relationship between space, life, tradition, and time.
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
Written by Valerio Millefoglie and narrated by Mario Calabresi.
The lack of affordable housing and the rising living costs in major Italian cities are becoming increasingly serious issues, weighing more and more on the well-being of individuals and families. In “Abitare,” Alex Zoboli and Marta Clinco create a narrative composed of images and interviews, exploring many of the most critical aspects of contemporary living, from poverty to the housing crisis, from the halt in public housing to gentrification, from segregation to inequalities – but also the most significant stories of resistance.
Original idea by Alex Zoboli and Marta Clinco
Interviews by Marta Clinco
Copy editing and translation by Matilde Manicardi
Graphic Design by Matteo Montorfano
Printed in Italy, April 2024
Newsprint paper
25×36 cm / 9,8×14,1 in
56 pages, 37 photos
Rotogravure
*the product may vary due to the printing process
By Claudio Majorana
It can be argued that adolescence is when we first become aware of the personal issues we carry throughout our lives, that if we had addressed them during our teenage years, we might now be all resolved grown-ups.
Beyond their pensive look, the kids portrayed by Claudio Majorana brim with questions, fears, and doubts; with their thoughts running at maximum speed. Spontaneously, Majorana’s attention is attracted to those moments when, as individuals navigating the complexities of being, we are figuring out life and may possess answers yet feel hesitant to articulate them, trapped by insecurity. Against the background of brutalist concrete witnesses, Majorana pictured a nuanced coming-of-age between youth summer camps, forests, cemeteries, and other arbitrary settings in Vilnius and on the outskirts of Lithuania. In the ageless journey of self-expression, feeling free to share one’s truth and reveal one’s self to others is the toughest struggle and the most sublime achievement.
Curated by Alex Majoli and Gilles Peress
Copy editing by Matilde Manicardi
Design by Hapto Studio
“Altra versione dello stesso paesaggio“ by Arianna Arcara will be exhibited at Jest/Turin from Wednesday, April 3rd.
Opening 6.30pm
via Bernardino Galliari 15/D, Torino
Curated by Francesca Cirilli (Jest Photography)
and Beatrice Zanelli (Arteco Torino)
“Altra versione dello stesso paesaggio” comes from a residency Arianna Arcara made in 2021 thanks to the Pinacoteca G.A. Levis in Chiomonte.
The set of paintings made in Susa Valley, part of the Levis collection, served as the starting point for Arianna Arcara to represent what she herself defines as “Another version of the same landscape”.
Her investigation developed through an attempt to outline a contemporary, social and landscape-based cross-section of the Susa Valley, turning her attention to the young population and the places where they grow up and live.
Thursday April 4 starting at 7.30pm we are thrilled to present at Paint It Black Bookshop in Torino (Via Fratelli Calandra, 6a ) Kanta Nomura’s The Yoshida Dormitory Students’ History by Cesura Publish.
An immersive atmosphere that brings you back in history, a sneak peek of the japanese visual, culinary, musical, social culture and tradition.
NATSUTARO – japanese vinyl set
AILIMÉ – japanese food + highball (cocktail)
VIOLA SARTORETTO costumes
Exhibition open until Saturday April 20.
If you would like to participate you can find the link Below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-yoshida-dormitory-students-history-by-kanta-nomura-tickets-871907487767?aff=oddtdtcreator
The book tells the story of Yoshida’s dormitory: a self-governing dormitory that historically played a central role for students attending Kyoto University in Japan.
Kanta Nomura about his experience in the dormitory: ”Traces of the dormitory’s history, accumulated by generations of students, are evident throughout the building. Each time I visited the building, these traces became signs, and I was strongly attracted to the energy that these signs radiated. I wonder if this was the result of their resistance to the many times they had been forced to abandon their dormitory, or if it was something that came from their daily lives”.
Everything is ready! We are glad to invite you to the official launch of our latest fanzine BABYGO
Opening on April, Saturday 6th from 6pm to 10pm at Potlatch Milano – via Padova, 65.
Live set by Jungla.
BABYGO is the first edition of the And Other Chapters series, created by Cesura Publish to showcase the work of Cesura’s mentees through limited-edition experimental publications.
A 2-day full immersion at CESURA headquarter, in Pianello Val Tidone (PC). The workshop aims to sensitize the students to the photographic printing process, teaching them the fundamentals of Photoshop and leading them on an educational path to understand the photographic print. Cesura photographer and retoucher Marco Zanella will focus on the digital printing process as a natural evolution of darkroom printing: preserving the printing quality that stems from the repetition of printing, adjusting, reprinting, persevering until the required quality is reached.
The workshop is aimed at those who want to understand what it means to be a craftsman of photography, how to knead their hands in the pixels to create a synergy of technique and quality, fundamental for the production of a good print.
Maximum of 10 participants, minimum of 7.
For programme, registration, costs and more click the link below:
Revolving around a spiral, “Baby Go” reflects on the circularity of everyday life within the collective: a perpetual artistic and personal learning cycle brimming with ups and downs. Alternating photographs by fourteen of Cesura’s mentees, the fanzine inaugurates Cesura Publish’s new series, “And Other Chapters.”
“And Other Chapters” is the new series of Cesura Publish dedicated to showcasing the work of Cesura’s mentees through limited-edition experimental publications. It seeks to include an array of embryonic projects reflecting the various research paths undertaken by the group of emerging photographers growing under the supervision of Cesura’s members, an ongoing exchange central to the creative fabric of Cesura’s expanding factory.
Last week Maria Elisa Ferraris and Chiara Fossati held a photography course for middle school students from Pianello Val Tidone and Agazzano.
During the course the students were introduced to photography through short theoretical lessons and then went out to shoot and have fun with the camera. At the end of the course two small exhibitions were organized with all the photos taken during the week.
Introducing Edoardo Comba and Giorgio Dirindin as new CESURA nominees!
Edoardo Comba was born in Rivoli (TO) in 1994.
He started approaching photography and video-making documenting his daily life as a skateboarder. After attending modern literature and film studies at the University of Turin, he joined Cesura in 2019 as an assistant of Luca Santese.
He is currently working on two main projects: on the closure of red light cinemas and on the issue of nuclear power in Italy.
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Giorgio Dirindin was born in Turin in 2000.
While studying photography at IED in Milan he started working as an assistant with Gabriele Micalizzi.
In 2022 he travels to Gaza and West Bank to document the living conditions of the beduins and in 2023 he documents with Emergency the migratory routes that cross the Mediterranean See.
Today we welcome two new photographers to our collective, Edoardo Comba and Giorgio Dirindin.
Edoardo and Giorgio will be part of our group as nominee members for the following two years. During this period they will work on the production of new projects to be re-evaluated at the end of this period.
Thank you for your work so far and good luck on your journey !
“Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me” exhibition by Valentina Neri at Guidi&Schoen Art gallery, Genova.
Opening February 9th – 6:30 p.m.
“Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me” is a study of the life of stars in relation to human beings.
Our bodies are composed of the same matter as the stars; from their explosion comes the calcium in our bones, the oxygen we breathe, the iron in our red blood cells, the carbon in our cells, and our hearts beat because of the energy produced when those substances were generated.
We are stellar matter and who knows, perhaps within this matter, looking differently, we might discover new stars, new worlds, new realities.
This Saturday “Comete” exhibition by Chiara Fossati will be at Centro Culturale Villa Brivio in Nova Milanese.
📆 The exhibition will open on February 3 at 5:30 p.m. and will be on view until February 10.
“Comete is a series that focuses on teenagers and young women. Going around the streets, shopping malls, parks, I talk to them, interview them and portray them. This journey for me is a kind of investigation into the new generation of girls living their youth in a very complicated world, to understand if and where they find the strength and tools to realize their dreams.”
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Fondazione Rossi and Libera Accademia di Pittura Vittorio Viviani.
January 25 marks the opening of the exhibition “Ukraine. Stories of Resistance” at Instytut Fotografii Fort(Warsaw, Poland).
The exhibition will feature photographs by Arianna Arcara, Rafal Milach, Sandra Schildwächter and Mykhaylo Palinchak.
The exhibition will last until March 17, 2024.
This exhibition was created thanks to the support of the US Embassy Warsaw.
@InstytutFotografiiFort @Arianna_Arcara @Rafal.Milach @mpalinchakphoto @usembassywarsaw.
Cronache d’Acqua. Immagini dal Nord Italia will be exhibited at Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza San Carlo, Turin. Opening December 14th at 6 p.m. Free entry!
“Cronache d’Acqua. Immagini dal Nord Italia” is a collective project by Arianna Arcara, Chiara Fossati, Giacomo Liverani, Marco Zanella and Alex Zoboli. In the face of the current environmental emergency, through 10 stories on the topic of water, Cesura photographers aim to create a testimony by ensuring that these transformations are not lost in memory.
This project is commissioned by Gallerie d’Italia and Intesa Sanpaolo, with the collaboration of Green&Blue and La Repubblica.
@Gallerieditalia @Arianna_Arcara, @Chiara_Fossati, @GiacomoLiverani @mrz.zanella @zobalex @zobalex @GreenAndBlue.Ambiente @LaRepubblica.
by Luca Santese – Marco P. Valli
Contemporary Cluster – Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome. Opening December 21, 2023 – 6 pm
December 21, 2023 – January 7, 2024
in collaboration with:
CESURA, BASE Milano, CONTEMPORARY CLUSTER – Rome
Since 2018, Santese and Valli are building a systematic and authorial documentation through a series of independent real-time publications on the main events and protagonists of the Italian political landscape. The latter include Boys Boys Boys, Popolopopolo, Lega Nord Party, MoVimento Lento, Mask off, Tik Tok Tak and Homo Silvio released by Cesura Publish, the independent publishing house of the photographic collective Cesura.
The photographic project appeared in various national and international publications. Among those, it stands out a portrayal of the minister Matteo Salvini on the cover of the well-known Time Magazine. Moreover, the project received extensive recognition across a series of experimental installations, including at Base Milano, Cinema Palazzo in Rome, FotoForum in Bolzano, Magazzini Fotografici in Naples, and Alcart Festival in Alcamo.
Through a renovated exhibition project in collaboration with Cesura, BASE Milano, and Contemporary Cluster Rome, Santese and Valli aim at enhancing their work with a fine-art photographic itinerant exhibition focusing on the printed photograph as means of documentary and artistic research. The selected images, among the most iconic of the project, will expose the viewer to photography intended not exclusively as a means of documenting the present but also as an enlivening critical tool.
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FOM, Fotografia Open Milan, presents: È UN MURO INVISIBILE. Photographs by Arianna Arcara and texts by Sara Leghissa.
An investigation of the Gallaratese, Cascina Merlata neighborhood and the young people who live there.
Exhibition in Via Quarenghi, Via Gallarate and on the walls of MM houses in Via Appennini.
October 12, 5p, Via Appennini, to November 12, 2023.
A project by Arts for under the patronage of Comune di Milano Assessorato alla Cultura in collaboration with Arte negli Spazi Pubblici
The project was realized with the collaboration of associations and realities active in City Hall 8: SpazioTempo Aps, Terre des Hommes Italia, Spluf Giochi dal Mondo, Partizan Bonola, Scuola Superiore d’Arte Applicata
@Arianna_Arcara @Sara.Leghissa. @ArtsFor_ @comunedimilano_cultura @spaziotempoaps @terredeshommesitalia @spluf_giochi_dal_mondo @partizanbonola @superarteapplicata @comunedimilano_cultura @ArtsFor_
MILANO UNDERGROUND exhibition by Gabriele Micalizzi will open at Centrale dell’Acqua (Milan) from September 30th to October 31st, 2023.
Centrale dell’Acqua di Milano (CAMi) is Italy’s first industrial museum dedicated to public water. The space is a symbolic place where policies, trend lines and industrial plans are confronted for the best possible management of the resource, also through public popular or scientific events, in agreement with different research centers, universities, foundations.
The world under Milan is a hive of tunnels, miles and miles of tunnels, canals, salt, concrete and stone, safe underground from the eyes of most. Made by following the explorations of Davide and Gianluca Padovan, two brothers, two speleologists, who have made it their mission to explore underground Milan, “The Padovan Brothers” is a journey through the history of Milan, a hidden history that goes back hundreds of years and tells the story of the city from its foundations, the same foundations that today support its buildings, its skyscrapers, its territory.
Luca Santese is the photographer in the new “100” campaign, created in collaboration with Perimetro and XNL Piacenza, with the aim of producing 100 portraits of individuals and personalities who are part of the Piacenza community and who, through their faces, define a new human landscape.
The exhibition will open today at 5 PM, at the XNL Foundation in Piacenza.
“This is the place where young adolescents meet after school, a place where their friendships are strengthened, their first loves are born, and where memories inevitably remain. Like Chiara and Enrico, photographed sheltering under a tree on a rainy day after their last first day of school”.
These pictures were taking in Lecce, Italy during Transizioni art residency 2021 in collaboration with Osservatorio Mobile Nord Est.
The series Parco Belloluogo by Claudio Majorana will be exhibited during OMNEFEST 2023 at Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Claudio will be there tomorrow for the panel discussion with the other photographers who participated in the art residencies OMNE/NATURE2021–2023.
Villa Parco Bolasco (Castelfranco Veneto, Italy)
22 September – 29 October 2023
Thanks to curators Stefania Rossl and Massimo Sordi and to Samuele Vincenti from Transizioni.
@ClaudioMajorana @Transizioni.Art @OsservatorioMobileNordEst
Arianna Arcara’s and Marco zanella’s work done in Moldavia is part of the collective exhibition Testimone Oculare at SiFest 2023.
Arianna Arcara, Marco Zanella , Cristina De Middel and Lorenzo Vitturi thanks to a collaboration with casa Circondariale di Forlì, met five inmates and put themselves at their disposal to report what each of them wished they could see, or see again, in the outside world.
The result is an investigation that crosses the prison walls and becomes a series of projects that are planned and produced on equal terms by the photographers and the inmates.
Opening weekend September 8-9-10, Consorzio di Bonifica, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy.
The exhibition will also be open on September 16/17 and 23/24.
Cesura Publish’s booth will be present all weekend in one large space dedicated to photo books in the “Dante Alighieri” elementary school gymnasium.
@Arianna_Arcara @Mrz.zanella @laDeMiddel @LorenzoVitturi @AlexMajoliPhoto @SiFest
DIORAMI Meraviglie Botaniche in 8 Atti by Francesca Berardi and Alessandro Sala will open on August 30 in Palermo.
This project curated by Maria Chiara di Trapani was commissioned by SiMuA and made in collaboration with Orto Botanico Palermo. Diorami is the winner of PAC2021 – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea Creativa Contemporanea, promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura.
A multimedial exhibition itinerary addressing the connection between the human and vegetable universe through Alessandro Sala’s photographs in dialogue with Francesca Berardi’s audio narratives, environmental installations and immersive sounds, and unpublished music created by composer Gianni Gebbia.
DIORAMI is a botanical expedition around 8 plant species that are protagonists of Sicily’s natural, social and cultural landscape: the large Ficus macrophylla f. columnaris, the dwarf palm of the Zingaro Nature Reserve; the citrus fruits cultivated in the gardens of Pantelleria; the almond tree of the Kolymbetra Garden; the carob tree of the rural landscape of the Iblei; the fragrant sage, thyme and rosemary of the Val di Noto; the Papyrus of the Ciane River; the centuries-old Holm Oak or Elk (Quercus ilex) in the Etna Park.
Each species will be narrated through the voices of Manlio Speciale, Rosario Schicchi, Paolo Inglese, Giuseppe Barbera, Mariangela Galante, Paolo Arena, Graziella Pavia, Salvatore Murana, Giuseppe Lo Pilato, Gianluca Pannocchietti, Paolino Uccello, Fabio Morreale, Lavinia Lo Faro.
Graphic Design | Exhibition Design: Studio Forward
Ufficio Stampa: CoopCulture
Thanks to Museo del Papiro Corrado Basile
Per info su PAC2021 consultare il sito istituzionale della DGCC
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TU is a temporary photographic installation by Giorgio Salimeni in Nibbiano, Alta Val Tidone, Italy.
It will be possible to visit the exhibition during Spazio Confluenze Festival.
TU is the name of the small hill that located behind the village of Nibbiano.
It is the symbol of a community where time flows slowly, to the rhythm of a river.
Young people grow up there and from there face the world that awaits them outside. Those who stay welcome those who arrive.
The exhibition will be on view until the end of August.
ARAB SPRING by Arianna Arcara, Alex Majoli, Andy Rocchelli and Luca Santese will be displayed at Alcart Festival in Alcamo (Sicily) from 5 to 9 August.
The revolutionary wind that swept the Arab world was the symbol of our evolving times. Cesura’s photographers documented these events to portray all the facets that defined this process, while watching history in the making. Arcara, Majoli, Rocchelli and Santese’s goal was to save the testimony after the news wave trailed off, committing to an ongoing watch that transcends the duty of reporting.
Almanacco Toilet Club by Valentina Neri will be exhibited at Mosaico Festival in Piazza Armerina, Sicily. Opening August 3rd at 6PM at Atrio Biblioteca, Largo Collegio 20.
Curated by Due Lab Gallery Thanks Mattia Stompo and Carmelo Stompo
Almanacco Toilet Club was released by Cesura Publish in 2018.
From 2014 to 2016, Valentina Neri worked on a photo project about a group of Drag Queens who created a club night that quickly became one of the most important and well known in Milan’s LGBTQIA*+ scene. After portraying the Queens’ growth and the colourful atmosphere of those nights, Valentina focused on the projects’ output; the main inspiration for the book Almanacco is “La Scena Illustrata 1941”, an influential Italian monthly publication born in 1884, that focused on current events with an ironic and straight-forward style. Her research drove her to illustrate and depict the queer world while experimenting with different mediums: a mix of photographs, descriptions, titles, and illustrations enclosed in a “fascist” layout (inspired by the original magazine’s design) give readers and viewers a broader spectrum of interpretation, allowing the development of a different conversation about the community.
@ValentinahNeri @Mosaico_Festival @DueLabGallery @MattiaStompo @Carmelo.Stompo.
Shine On by Alex Zoboli is part of the exhibition FUTURES 2023: New Narratives at Camera Torino
The exhibitions explores the theme of visual representation of contemporaneity.
Curated by Giangavino Pazzola.
Open from July 19th to October 8th 2023.
The project titled “Shine On”, shot in the United Kingdom since 2019, endeavors to capture the fluid essence of a nation in perpetual flux, continuously grappling with its own contradictions as it attempts to carve out a fresh and authentic sense of self in an ever-changing world.
CRONACHE exhibition by Alex Majoli opens tonight in Modica, Italy at 7PM at Ex Convento del Carmine. Open until October 15th.
ALEX MAJOLI, IL TESTIMONE
Alex Majoli’s works represent men, women, children, old people photographed on various continents, in various countries, over the last thirty years. At the same time, they depict suffering, pandemics, pain, walls, borders, the weak, the poor, the marginalised, violence, wars, migration, power, ideologies, faiths, and suffering peoples. This diverse humanity is the protagonist of this Modica exhibition.
The exhibition is presented with a series of tableaux, with some single photos, and then triptychs, polyptychs, ‘photographic’ sequences. Majoli tells stories about wars, police attacks, poverty in the suburbs in the megalopolises of the continents, massacres, loneliness, despair of the entire globe. For him, photography and life are one and the same. He is not the European who looks objectively. His photographic ‘lens’ is the extension of his humanity in participating in the lives of those he meets and with whom he dialogues. His conviction: the theatricality of existence in which everyone plays their part. This is supported by Pirandello, his works and in particular “Six Characters in Search of an Author”. But he also thinks and reflects on Brecht, Artaud and their theatre. And if life is a stage, he begins to photograph events, people as actors of themselves, intensifying the rendering of faces, gestures, actions. He shoots at any time of day or night, but linguistically, photographically the result is not what we imagine, but what he believes can and should be more communicative, more true than what the eye sees, and than what we normally perceive. His images are of an augmented visual reality, and in recent times a reality put on a stage, with actors standing in for or alongside the protagonists of the stories told.
The photographs contained within HOMO SILVIO were taken in Italy from 2010 to 2023 during political, television, and lifestyle events surrounding Silvio Berlusconi. The volume also includes the photographs taken during the state funeral of “Il Cavaliere.”
Argini is a new publication by photographer Marco Zanella, of devastating floods that engulfed the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna in May 2023.
Zanella, the author of the book ‘Scalandrê’ (2021), returned to his beloved Romagna to document the consequences of the flooding that gravely damaged entire towns, destroyed many of its fields, and displaced countless inhabitants.
50% of the sales proceeds will be donated to the Giuseppe Sarti Music School in Faenza, severely affected by the floods.
The fanzine is the second edition of the Dispacci series, created by Cesura Publish with the intention of imprinting Italian news chronicles on newsprint paper.
Printed in Italy, July 2023
Newsprint paper
25×35 cm / 9,8×13,7 in
40 pages, 50 photos
Rotogravure
All photographs shown in this publication were taken in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
*the product may vary due to the printing process
Pray for Seamen is a photographic research project by Francesco Bellina investigating, through encounters with fishermen on the ground, the struggles of small-scale fisheries and port communities across Trapani, Sicily, the Kerkennah Islands, Tunisia, and Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, as a result of global warming and, notably, of the exploitative action of large-scale industrial fishing on the local ecosystems. Coming himself from a family of fishermen, Bellina offers an intimate portrait inviting us to reconnect with the human dimension of the immense transformation we are assisting to. Although the fishermen of the Sicilian, Tunisian, and Ghanaian coasts are fundamentally rooted in their local economy and cultural identity, Pray for Seamen aims to shed light on the global dynamics and consequences that bound these three distinct geographies together and that directly concern all of us.
Project supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (2021)
“Pray for Seaman” exhibition by Francesco Bellina in now open at Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva, Palermo.
“Pray for Seamen is an artistic research project by Francesco Bellina and Stefano Liberti, curated by Izabela Moren, narrating the situation of the seas, the ports, and the small-scale fisheries in Tunisia, Ghana, and Sicily through encounters with fishermen on the ground.
Although the fishermen of the Sicilian, Tunisian, and Ghanaian coasts are a central component of the local economy and cultural identity, they are all exposed to the same global dynamics. Bellina gives us a diverse panorama of three landscapes by documenting their similar practices and struggles.”
The exhibition is open from 16 June to 24 September 2023
Winner of the 10th Edition of the Italian Council by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Produced by Fondazione Studio Rizoma, the final work will be acquired by the Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva in Palermo.
A satirical portrait of contemporary Italian politics by Luca Santese and Marco P. Valli
Supported by BASE Milano and Contemporary cluster.
Luca Santese and Marco P. Valli are the co-authors of Realpolitik, a photographic project of critical and satirical reflection on the iconography of communication and propaganda that characterizes Italy’s politics today. Since 2018, Santese and Valli are building a systematic and authorial documentation through a series of independent real-time publications on the main events and protagonists of the Italian political landscape.
The photographic project appeared in various national and international publications. Among those, it stands out a portrayal of the minister Matteo Salvini on the cover of the well known Time Magazine. Moreover, the project received extensive recognition across a series of experimental installations.
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@base_milano @contemporary_cluster
On June 4, 2023, the city of Naples officially celebrated the S.C.C. Naples’ victory in the Italian football championship 2023, an extraordinary event that last occurred with the ‘miracle’ of Diego Armando Maradona 33 years ago. On the very same day, June 4, Luca Santese & Marco P. Valli released Malatì, a photographic newspaper shot in Naples between April 29 and May 4, the week that marked the championship’ certain victory.
Neapolitans’ mad eternal love for their city and football team has not spared the two authors, who, possessed by the same holy Malatì (literal for ‘madness’, and title of a Naples’ TikTok hit song which now became the team’s anthem), try to give it back in this photographic volume rich in icons of the city, its history, and inhabitants. The latter are reinterpreted in a chaotic, extreme, reckless, and fleeing visual play—as a scooter speeding in the night through the neighborhoods’ alleys of Naples.
The cover’s photograph portrays a personalized cake realized for the two authors by a Neapolitan pastry chef; on the back side, the photographic volume ends with the cake’s left-overs surrounding the fragment of a Napaepolitan poem.
Printed in Italy, June 2023
Newsprint paper
25×35 cm / 9,8×13,7 in
40 pages, 50 photos
Rotogravure
All photographs shown in this publication were taken in Naples, Italy.
*the product may vary due to the printing process
MÜTTER exhibition by Luca Santese and curated by Nicola Patruno, will open at Jergon Studio (Berlin) from June 9th to August 31th, 2023.
The vernissage will take place on June 9 at 6 p.m. at JERGON Berlin, Wrangelstr. 76 – 10997
Mütter, Luca Santese’s first solo show in Germany is hosted and curated by JERGON, an art hub located in Berlin’s cultural heart of Kreuzberg. The space is dedicated to the promotion of experimental photography and a center for independent research. The exhibition itinerary unfolds in three spaces, each representing the constituent stages of Santese’s artist practice, which has been questioning the mimesis of the photographic image for 15 years by means of an ongoing comparison and association with archetypes and themes belonging to the history of classic and contemporary art. The artworks on display is drawn from the following series: “Found Photos in Detroit”, “Sado”, “Festa” and “Errors”, leading up to a metamorphic dialogue between abstraction and figuration, the historical and the archetypical, the realist and the visionary.
A5 double-sided artist notebook.
Each one comes with two different covers shot by Cesura’s photographers, 9 different notebooks to collect.
Softcover, Arena White Smooth 300gr
14,8×21 cm / 5,5×8,3 in
120 pages, Arena Ivory Smooth 90gr
Color Offset
Rounded corners
Printed in Italy, May 2021
CESURA FANZINE #4 is out. This year’s theme is “EARLY STAGE or how we started looking at things.” The publication brings together a selection of our collective members’ early works. Every image comes from the first images we took or the initial projects we developed. Each picture has been cropped to highlight the focus on the things that caught our attention at the beginning when photography was the most instinctive and pure act.
Inside the fanzine, you will find a poster of the collage inspired by this year’s theme.
Souvenir is a poetry collection divided into five sections.
Souvenir, from French “to come to mind”, evokes the ability to remember in a tangible way: distant thoughts in space and time that come in faces, objects, and places.
Lorenzo Cianchi’s poetic and photographic images, selected by CESURA collective, explore narrative duplicity to convey immediacy.
The five booklets, protected in a slipcase, remind us of the accordion-style folding postcards, that were very popular until a few years ago and can be read individually or as stages of human life. From birth to death, passing through youth and maturity: the childish levity, the preadolescence, the difficulty of deciphering desire, the sense of lack. Poetic words welcome photography; together, they become postcards from emotional places that dwell the human.
Poems on one side and photographs on the other: a eulogy to the anisotropic ways people feel, believing that literature – unlike reality – doesn’t necessarily need an end.
Edited by Boîte Editions and Cesura Publish.
First edition of 120 copies
Printed in Italy, November 2022
ISBN 9788894703818
Texts by Lorenzo Cianchi
Photos by Cesura
Translations by Federica Duani
Design by Valentina Bigaran
53,9 x 38,5 in / 13,7 x 9,8 cm
8 pages each booklet, 40 photos
All photographs shown in this publication were taken in Italy in the Summer of 2022 as the national election campaign unfolded.
In February 2014 Andy Rocchelli documented the protests in Kyiv that led to the Ukrainian revolution, also known as the Maidan revolution. Once back at Cesura headquarters, Andy realized a fanzine called Ukraina Revolution, which contains a sequence of photographs taken in those days in Maidan Square during the clashes. The fanzine, produced by Cesura Publish in the first edition of 50 copies, was then reprinted in a second edition, also in 2014.
Ukraina Revolution III, in its third edition, returns with a revised and expanded sequence of images.
We dedicate this third edition of Ukraina Revolution to our friends Andy Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov, who were killed by the Ukrainian army on May 24th, 2014, in Sloviansk while documenting the conditions of civilians trapped in the middle of the Donbas conflict.
This is a project promoted and supported by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.
Handbound softcover 27,0 X 41,0 cm
42 pages, 21 photos Digital print
Printed in Italy, May 2022
The project, commissioned by I Teatri di Reggio Emilia in collaboration with Collezione Maramotti, represents a photographic interpretation by Arianna Arcara of the Belgian dance theatre company Peeping Tom’s productions La Visita, site specific at Collezione Maramotti from November 4 to 7, 2021, and Triptych, staged at Teatro Valli in occasion of Festival Aperto 2021.
Arcara followed Peeping Tom’s creative process first at Collezione Maramotti, where they staged improvised performances that resulted in the site-specific production “La Visita,” to then move to the Teatro Municipale Valli to work on the acclaimed trilogy “The missing door, The lost room, and The hidden floor,” winner of the Fedora – Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet 2021.
The catalogue “A view of Peeping Tom’s la Visita/Triptych by Arianna Arcara” stands as one of the two project outcomes together with the homonymous exhibition on show during Fotografia Europea 2022, Reggio Emilia.
Curated by Arianna Arcara
Text by Silvia Bottani, Marinella Guatterini, Monica Poggi
Design by Arianna Arcara, Silvia Castagnoli
Translation by Johanna Bishop, Anna Carruthes
First edition
ISBN 9788894561173
Printed in Italy, Maggio 2022
Hardback
21×25 cm / 8,2×9,8 in
80 pages
303 photo
Offset
Promoted and supported by Fondazione I Teatri, Reggio Emilia, and Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia.
Arianna Arcara and Claudio Majorana are part of the collective exhibition Coming of age at Fondation Louis Vuitton in honour of Virgil Abloh.
The exhibition will be open from today until April 27th.
“In 2019, Virgil Abloh curated a group exhibition titled “Coming of Age” in Los Angeles, California. Presented in creative partnership with Little Big Man Gallery, the exhibition centred around the concept, diversities and complexities of male youth and boyhood – traversing class, race, social economics, subcultures, isolation, and camaraderie. “Coming of Age” travelled to Paris, Beijing, Milan, New York, Munich, Tokyo and Seoul, allowing students, artists, and local communities access to a DIY “copy center”, to build and create their own zines with their favourite artworks from the exhibition.
A physical embodiment and homage to Virgil Abloh’s world, “Coming of Age” in Paris regroups, reimagines and expands this original exhibition and its narrative story. A tribute to a hands-on creator, the exhibition encourages activities and participation, combining physical events with digital activations. Visitors become participants, alongside artists, photographers, musicians, directors, and animators. Diverse but united, the participants serve as an illustration of Virgil Abloh’s mission and achievement to democratise the dream embodied by Louis Vuitton, rendering it a domain open to the aspirations of people from all walks of life, all ages, all genders and all races.”
Exhibition curated by Be Good Studios.
The jury of the Andy Rocchelli Grant gathered and is pleased to announce that THE YOSHIDA DORMITORY STUDENT’S HISTORY by Kanta Nomura is the winner of the first edition of our Grant.
We are extremely happy with the amount of titles and the high quality of dummies we received, reason why the jury decided to give two special mentions to Mikhail Bushkov with the project Zürich and to Angelo Vignali with the project How to raise a hand.
We want to thank all the participants and the jury for being part of this first edition of the Andy Rocchelli Grant.
2021 Jury
David Campany, Tamara Corm, Arianna Arcara and Lucia Rocchelli.
President of the Jury
Alex Majoli
The first edition of the grant is a project promoted and supported by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo.
Scalandrê is a word from the regional dialect of Romagna, Italy, which means “out of season, out of phase”, referring to people, animals or plants. It is the title of the first book by Marco Zanella, a project carried out over three years in Cotignola, a small agricultural town in Northern Italy. It investigates what has often been defined as “the end of peasant civilization”, straddling the world before and after the pandemic.
The book tells of a local reality put to the test by the advance of the new digital society and by an alienating sense of time; a place where the natural rhythm of the seasons, festivals and rituals, that had always marked the life of a farming community, risks being upset and lost. In this small cosmos, life doesn’t seem to be running against time, but on a parallel track, without conflict.
Marco Zanella’s images bear witness to a community’s commitment to preserving ancient traditions and collective memories from accelerated change.
Curated and Edited by Alex Majoli and Arianna Arcara
Design by Alberto Bolzonetti / Muttnik
Softcover, Federigoni Arena Paper
24×32 cm / 13 x 10 in
104 pages, 58 photos
Offset
First edition
ISBN 978-88-945611-4-2
Printed in Italy, July 2021
“Whatever is the story of my adopted family and of a dream we shared with thousands of kids like us: to live in a world where rules or constrictions didn’t exist.”
“I was a teenager looking for adventures and freedom who found herself in the midst of the declining golden age of the rave movement, with a camera hanging around my neck. At that time, no one saw any good in us or in what we were doing, just as no one even bothered to look into rave culture. I remember the looks filled with disgust and judgment that followed us everywhere, and how we just learned not to give a damn, because we believed in our dreams and the alternative life we were pursuing. Looking back to this project after years, I can’t deny that it was the freest and fullest time of my life; but that fairytale was saturated with asphalt, mud, dust and rich in enemies, and soon our teenage dream crashed into a wall. Surely, we allowed ourselves to be fascinated by the unknown, and learned to find the strength to express all that we are, so that nobody and nothing could stop us from pursuing our dreams, whatever they may be.”
Curated by Arianna Arcara and Alex Majoli
Graphic design by Studio Moretti Visani
Hardback, handmade silver spray*
28×28 cm / 11×11 in
96 pages, 54 photos
Offset
A5 Xerox zine on fluo paper included
First edition
*cover design may vary
“Theatricality must restore and cross over from side to side, existence and flesh.” Antonin Artaud
With SCENE, Alex Majoli has generated new interpretations about the relationship between men and their daily theatricality. In Opera Aperta, the author takes up the previously developed discourse and exasperates the ambiguity between reality and fiction – “In February 2020, I was in Reggio Emilia, where I was working on a new chapter of my SCENE project, my long-term photographic research about the theatricality of everyday life. While I was searching for new turning points, the pandemic started insinuating itself in my photos; on March 8th, I decided to interrupt the project to photograph the situation in the country. After over a year, I picked the story up again. Opera Aperta is the result of this work; not just photography, but an open paragraph on the contemporary tragedy of Covid-19.”
30×40 cm / 12×16 in
128 pages, 76 photos
Offset
First edition
ISBN 978-88-945611-1-1
Printed in Italy, May 2021
Since the day our group came together under the name of CESURA, the people who believed in our project and mission made a huge difference helping us reach our goals. With the SUPPORT US campaign we ask for your help to directly support our projects, our independent Publishing house and our Lab.
You can choose among 3 annual plans with different benefits like a web studio visit of CESURA’s headquarters with one of our members and gadgets (artist notebook with some of our photographers’ pictures on the cover, an original clipper lighter and a cotton tote bag, both with our Never never never give up motto). You can also choose between a signed Open edition print or a 30-minute One to One session to have a chat with a photographer of your choice. Last but not least, a limited edition poster made by the one and only Paolo Ventura!
Artist Paolo Ventura opens our SUPPORT US campaign with a unique work donated and created exclusively for CESURA. The artwork is the result of a combination of acrylic colors and stencils on wrapping paper 140 x 100 cm and is inspired by our motto NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP.
This collaboration, in which the Milanese artist was given complete freedom, is the first of a series of special works created by various international artists.
Ventura’s reproduction is printed on Arctic Volume White 200gr paper format, size 68 x 98cm, and is in a limited edition.
Find this special poster inside 2 of our memberships.