In parallel to Lyon’s biennale, Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, is a biannual event organized around a specific theme. The photography featured in this biennale is at the crossroads between documentary image and contemporary art. This year, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification (Risorgimento), the chosen theme is “Dopo la Dolce Vita” (After the good life). Gilles Verneret, Director of the event, invites you from September 9th through October 29th 2011, for a trip to the heartland of Italy, through 4 exhibitions in the Capital of the Gauls.
“In the dusk of a more accomplished work on the Italian photography, Lyon septembre de la photographie aims to showcase a flash, like a documentary and poetic inspiration of images, to provoke a further thinking, both on the paths of contemporary photography and on the eternal Italy of its 150th anniversary.” Gilles Verneret.
Marco Delogu : Due migrazioni / Two migrations
11/09 – 22/10
Marco Delogu captured the testimony of the evolution of Italian society in the countryside. Between 1999 and 2007, armed with a contrasted photographic point of view, Marco has captured the faces of rough rural Sardinian, migrants to the Lazio region, and were progressively replaced by some of the more hermetic workers coming from the East. He relived with lucidity this acculturation process, an outcome of the globalization of the new working classes, portrayed by Pasolini many decades before.
Le Bleu du Ciel
48, rue burdeau – 69001 Lyon
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Bernard Plossu : Dopo l’estate
10/09 – 29/10
Bernard Plossu captured the timeless Italian softness in the nouvelle vague spirit, jumping like a giant in boots, through small images in black and white, like small islands.
Library in the first district – Bibliothèque du 1er
7 rue Saint Polycarpe – 69001 Lyon
http://www.bm-lyon.fr
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Gilles Verneret : I luoghi di Pasolini / The places of Pasolini
10/09 – 29/10
More than 30 years after the passing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the multiple doubts on the circumstances of his murder are still in the air, but what is still sadly present is the void that he has left in the cultural and intellectual panorama. Gilles Verneret engaged a sort of pilgrimage in the steps of Pasolini, alongside his camera. His photographs portray the Friuli region, the sun covered countryside, the bed of the Tagliamento, the football fields that Pasolini would love, the Chapelle de Versutta (to whom we owe the discovery of its fresques)… These are all elements that capture the serenity and melancholy of these youngsters’ places, when PPP would discover the values of the rural world and his interest for the dialect, quickly present in the heart of his poetic work.
Library in the first district – Bibliothèque du 1er
7 rue Saint Polycarpe – 69001 Lyon
http://www.bm-lyon.fr
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Claude Nori : L’été italien / The Italian summer
10/09 – 29/10
In a different context, Claude Nori, of Italian stock, reminds us of the lively memories of the Viscontian summers on the hot beaches, where young and beautiful Italians flirt with their Romeos, following the bel canto pace of the pedals by Felice Gimondi.
Blooworkshops
10 bis rue de cuire – 69004 Lyon
http://www.blooworkshops.com
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Ericka Weidmann
