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Fabrica at FotoGrafia 2006
Rome’s festival dedicated to international photography presents the works of two Fabrica photographers
When: 04 April, 2006
Where: Rome
What: Exhibition
With the exhibitions “In the Family” and “Le fortificazioni del nord-est” respectively of Leonie Purchas and Lorenzo Vitturi, Fabrica participates to FotoGrafia, a festival presenting over 80 exhibitions, events, meetings and screenings that will involve Rome’s foreign cultural institutes, art galleries, bookshops, train stations, clubs and pubs. The Festival, which has come at its 5th edition, is open to all languages of photography: from photo-reportage to historical photography and contemporary experimentations.
This year’s theme is “The twentieth-century, the necessity of photography”.
In the Family
by Leonie Purchas (UK)
The concept of family and its role in society. A series of emotional and compassionate portraits of a Roman family taken during Leonie’s cohabitation with them. Through this in depth look at filial relationships, the photographer addresses the fact that not everything is changing and that there is some continuity in today’s rapidly evolving society. The family is the driving force in our lives, however or with whomever one might live, even for those sharing a home with three wives or spending their nights outdoors with their flocks.
As Jane Austin said: "Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”.
Leonie Purchas (Uk, 1978) graduated in History of Art at the University College of London and in photo-journalism at the London College of Printing. She has received many awards for her extraordinary works, all focused on unconventional existential conditions: "The Labours of Hercules", the portray of the life of an 80 year old car salesman; "The Cariou family" who built a self-sustaining home in Provence; "Micheal Barry the shepherd", the portray of a hermit shepherd; "Christian - the collector" who for 50 years has put aside what people waste and throw away. Her works have been exhibited in important museums and galleries and published on important newspapers, among which Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph.
Currently she’s working at Fabrica’s Photography Department.
April 4-6, 2006
Tempio di Adriano
Piazza di Pietra
tel: 06 4927141
OPEN: 6.00 pm - 12.00 pm
Free entrance
Le fortificazioni del nord-est
by Lorenzo Vitturi (Italy)
This series of photographs document an almost unknown chapter of recent Italian history. During the years of the Cold War, the Italian State decided to strengthen its North-Eastern defence line with funds provided by NATO. This resulted in an ex novo organised system of permanent fortifications to stop any eventual attack by countries belonging to the Warsaw pact.
In addition to building defensive structures, in 1975 twenty-five new infantry battalions were created and assumed responsibility for managing and defending these fortifications until 1996.
With the fall of the Soviet Union both the fortifications and the battalions guarding them were progressively dismantled.
This research is addressed at investigating those currently abandoned buildings that portray so well the end of a historical era, that of the "cold war", that so greatly marked 20th century history.
Lorenzo Vitturi was born in Venice in 1980. After graduating in Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, he has collaborated to the last feature film of English film director Peter Greenaway. During his time at Fabrica, he has worked for "Panchine d’autore per sguardi d’amore”, a project supported by Comune di Verona which will be presented in February 2007 in “Abitare il tempo” fair and participated in the recent collective exhibition "Pasolini and Rome".
April 7-30, 2006
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Piazza S. Egidio, 1 b 00153 Roma Italia
tel: 06 5816563
OPEN: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 - 20
closed on Monday
http://www.fotografiafestival.it
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