In Cortona from 13 July to 1 October
INAUGURATED THE 13TH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY CORTONA ON THE MOVE
The 13th edition of Cortona On The Move, offers a new experience of knowledge and discussion on fascinating, complex and highly topical issues.
Like every year, Cortona On The Move chooses a theme, a common thread that brings together all the works of the artists called to interpret it. This year the chosen theme is More or Less, an investigation into the contrast between abundance and scarcity, superfluous and essential, elite and masses, accumulation and dispersion.
The 26 exhibitions have been set up between the historic centre, the Girifalco Fortress and "Station C" near the Camucia-Cortona railway station.
Studio Rufus had the pleasure of collaborating with Cortona On The Move in a new framing of the exhibitions on display in the rooms of the suggestive Girifalco Fortress.
Starting from the exhibition in Cannoniera by Larry Fink - Class Issues, which presents some unpublished images and a selection of his best-known photographs, those taken during parties where the VIPs play themselves in an exasperated way, contrasted with the images of his neighbors at home in Martins Creek (Pennsylvania), a particularly poor family.
We move to the first floor with the exhibition by Massimo Vitali - Standing Still, in which the absolute main characters of Vitali photography are us - as subjectivity and as a community - who over time modify the way we inhabit spaces and weave interpersonal relationships, in a delicate balance between aggregation and dispersion, presence and absence, crowds and solitudes.
To get to the second floor of the Fortress with the "Africo" case, from the Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive, which collects the reportage by Valentino (Tino) Petrelli made in the town of Aspromonte in 1948, exhibited in Cortona for the first time in its entirety.
The published photos showed the "primitive" daily life and lifestyle of the Africo population.
When, on the night between 17 and 18 October 1951, the flood completely destroyed the town, the echo and clamor of that reportage contributed to inducing the Government to find the economic resources to rebuild it; however, the new settlement, Africo Nuovo, was 30 km away, a choice which again violated an already prostrate population.
