The history and the moment
In order to adequately represent the vastness of Carlo Orsi's work, the exhibition aims to document it in two distinct sections. The first section consists of an anthological exhibition of 102 photographs taken over the last fifty years. While not claiming to be exhaustive, it aims to highlight the depth and breadth of his work across time and place, as well as its significance as a kaleidoscopic fresco of an entire era of national and world history. Each room is therefore dedicated to a theme from the artist's photographic work: fashion, advertising, reportage, portraiture, Interplast interventions, art and architecture. The second exhibition continues with the display of another 43 photographs taken in various locations in our mountain landscape, linking a slice of the history of our valley and our region to the vastness of Orsi's artistic documents in terms of space and time. This photographer-surfer of space and time fell in love with the landscape of Fiemme in particular and Trentino in general during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, setting his fashion and advertising shoots in various pleasant natural locations in the valley and the region, while at the same time taking other free images that struck his artistic sensibility. The result is an exhibition of a collection of highly significant photographs, unpublished and unknown to most people: a historical and artistic document that further analyses the interest that the Alpine territory has always aroused, offering the collective imagination a stimulus of great symbolic value, a reserve lung and a place of exchange with other territories and other realities. And in this definition of local connotations, reconnecting them to the universal, lies the meaning of our exhibition.
(Elio Vanzo, “Carlo Orsi: la storia e l’attimo”, in Carlo Orsi Fotografo. Immagini dal Trentino e dal mondo, edited by Elio Vanzo, Claudio Delvai, catalogue of the exhibition at Centro Arte Contemporanea, Cavalese, December 26, 2011-April 8, 2012, [Cavalese: Centro Arte Contemporanea 2011] 12-13)
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