On Thursday, April 28 at 6 p.m., the photographic exhibition “Sculptures and Sculptors in the Marble Countries,” curated by Massimo Bertozzi, opens in Carrara on the second floor of Palazzo Cucchiari.
For this occasion, thirty photographic portraits and thirty sculptures will be exhibited in the rooms of the main floor of the palace, home of the Giorgio Conti Foundation, expressing Reinhold Kohl ‘s view of the artistic panorama of the marble countries, and at the same time the production of the main sculptors who were able to express themselves in this context, completing their training and arriving at their definitive affirmation.
The exhibition is organized around Reinhold Kohl‘s photographic volume, the result of a long human as well as professional acquaintance with the many sculptors who have worked in Carrara and the broader Apuo-Versiliese panorama since the 1980s.
The result of the passionate, continuous and careful work of an artist of photography, the volume recounts creative attitudes and areas of work of numerous masters of sculpture, while documenting some of the most representative works of their artistic production.
It is the story in images of a happy artistic season that Kohl’s gaze has stopped in the portraits of the protagonists: Guadagnucci, Poncet, Vangi, Cardenas, Botero, Signori, Max Bill, Finotti, Bodini, Pistoletto, Theimer, up to the burgeoning colony of the Japanese, Yasuda, Ogata, Nakamura.
Portraits of Gigi Guadagnucci in his Bergiola studio, Antoine Poncet at work in the Nicoli workshop, Giuliano Vangi in tense inner recollection, Novello Finotti grappling with the majesty of the quarries, Michelangelo Pistoletto in pensive attitude, Dunchi absorbed, Bodini relaxed, Theimer intent on chiseling wax, Fernando Botero in front of one of his horses, Ogata as he turns his laughing face toward a drop of marble, will be exhibited together with their sculptures, not by image this time, but in the concreteness of the most extraordinary and suggestive matter of art.
Reinhold Kohl began his activity as a photojournalist working with various newspapers and news agencies, publishing his work in various national and foreign newspapers (Corriere della Sera, Il Tirreno, Messaggero, L’Espresso, Panorama, Oggi, Der Spiegel, Badische Zeitung, IRL, Gulliver, Dove, Capital), and also in art and architecture magazines ( Casa Vogue, Arte In, Casa Oggi, Horse-Ligne, Quadri & Sculture, Art in Italy, Flash Art ).
In the first half of the 1980s he collaborated with Giorgio Gaber, Fabrizio De Andrè and produced photos for posters, postcards and record covers of various authors: Enzo Jannacci, Fabrizio De Andrè, Tempi Duri, Massimo Bubola, etc. (Ed. Cipiesse, Ricordi, Fado).
Since 1988 he began to frequent artists and sculptors, promoting exhibitions and taking photographs for art catalogs, among others L’arte del marmo (Ed. Primula), Gigi Guadagnucci: Elogio dell’ombra (Ed. Skira), X Biennale Int.le Città di Carrara: il primato della scultura (Ed. Maschietto& Musolino), Finotti (Pezzini Editore Arte).
Among his most recent publications: Con la coda dell’occhio (Ed. Mori), La Biennale del giorno dopo (Ed. Mori), Gigi Guadagnucci – magiche trasparenze (Ed. Mori), Fabrizio De Andrè…in volo per il mondo (Ed. Mori), “Calendario d’Arte 2009 – scultura internazionale,” “SCULTORI & SCULTURE CONTEMPORANEI” (Silvana Editoriale, 2014)
Artists in the exhibition: Rinaldo Bigi, Max Bill, Floriano Bodini, Paolo Borghi, Fernando Botero, Nado Canuti, Augustin Cardenas, Girolamo Ciulla, Daniel Couvreur, Francesco Cremoni, Nardo Dunchi, Micael Esbin, Novello Finotti, Mario Fruendi, Gigi Guadagnucci, Mariko Isozaki, Kazuto Kuetani, Makiko Nakamura, Yoshin Ogata, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Antoine Poncet, Mario Rossello, Silvio Santini, Carlo Sergio Signori, Julio Silva, Francesco Somaini, Viliano Tarabella, Ivan Theimer, Vito Tongiani, Ottorino Tonelli, Giuliano Vangi, Felice Vatteroni, Kan Yasuda.
On the basement floor of the palace, recently returned to the public after restoration, the exhibition Michelangelo photographed by Aurelio Amendola continues.
Curated by Massimo Bertozzi
April 28 to June 12, 2016
Carrara, Palazzo Cucchiari- Giorgio Conti Foundation
Via Cucchiari 1
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 3 p.m. to 7 p.m;
Opening April 28, 2016 6 p.m.
Info: 0585 72355
