The new season at SpazioReale opens with the work of Mario De Biasi, one of the leading figures in Italian photojournalism.
In Bellinzona (CH), the exhibition Mario De Biasi. L’intrepido cacciatore di immagini will take the public on a journey through the most iconic shots of the Belluno-born photographer, retracing an extraordinary career that spanned decades of history, customs, and society.
“Because wherever life is found, beauty is found. Just look around to see it: even in a leaf, in a stone, in a flowered balcony, even in the reflections in a puddle” said De Biasi, whose gaze captured the poetry of the everyday and the intensity of monumental events with the same sensitivity. Hired in 1953 by Epoca, the historic italian magazine published by Mondadori, De Biasi documented the world with his camera, signing hundreds of covers and reports. For Epoca readers, De Biasi embodied the fearless explorer perpetually traveling to bring the need for adventure, exoticism, escape, and information to the ends of the Earth – in every desert, battlefield, social event, or natural phenomenon – a need that, at the time, could only be experienced through the pages of a magazine.
Throughout his career, Mario De Biasi built around his experiences a model of refined and yet authentically popular reportage photography, which today has become a reference point in the international photojournalism scene. Each frame highlights a small or large story, each shot captures a piece of reality that the artist masterfully grasps, never neglecting the balance of forms and the harmony of light and shadow. Particularly significant are his reports on unknown Italy; portraits of celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, and Sophia Loren; images of New York in the 1950s; and his world-famous icon, the famous shot Gli italiani si voltano, exhibited in 1994 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
The exhibition, will be open till May 18th , at SpazioReale, at the Antico Convento delle Agostiniane in Monte Carasso.
More info: www.spazioreale.ch
