A Taste Of The Italian Art Scene In 2019

2019

April 1, 2020April 24, 2020
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I go most of the art events within my reach. I do it for an online magazine that I publish along with my wife, also a photographer. The following is a short choice of exhibits I reviewed in 2019, mostly in Northern Italy or in bordering Switzerland.

Following the opening in Lugano, Switzerland, of the show “Hodler–Segantini–Giacometti – masterpiece from the Gottfried Keller Foundation”, I turned to view the beautiful building of the LAC Art Center. On the right of the window, Alberto Giacometti, *Buste d’Annette, 1964*. Bronze, 45 x 19 x 15 cm. Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève, Zurich / Giacometti Stiftung

I prefer shooting with the camera standing on a tripod, but often I don’t have this privilege, or I don’t have the time for an elaborate setup. For this very reason, occasionally, my ISOs tend to go rather high. In those cases, it’s just take-it-or-leave-it.

In February, I entered this very series of photographs for an award. Now I know I did not win. I did not even make the shortlist. However, now that I have come over it, the immense praise I reserve to my capabilities has suggested that I submit it to my affectionate public.