April 13, 2023
From April 28, 2023 to February 2024, eight original prints of photographs by Fulvio Ventura, in 40×40 format, will be exhibited at the Palace of Museums in Reggio Emilia (Italy), via Spallanzani 1, as part of the exhibition Un piede nell’Eden. The photographs, kept in the photographic archive of the Biblioteca Panizzi, are part of the 1988 collective exhibition Giardini in Europa, and were taken in Gordes, Paris, Urbino, Naples, Lyon and Salzburg.
March 7, 2023
On the occasion of the third anniversary of the disappearance of Fulvio Ventura, two new galleries were added: Archivio dello Spazio, images of three municipalities in the province of Milan, and Vulcano, Images of this island of the Archipelago of the Aeoliennes.
October 24, 2021
The book Sagacity by Fulvio Ventura was presented in Milan on 20 October 2021 at 18:30, at the Galleria San Fedele, via Ulrico Hoepli 3a.
Organized by Giulia Zorzi of the Micamera bookshop, in the presence of Fulvio’s partner, Anna de Lorenzi, of the publisher Mike Slack, (The Ice Plant), of the photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte and by Roberta Valtorta, historian and critic of Italian photography. Moderated by Luca Fiore, journalist.
June 30, 2021
After almost 50 years of waiting, here is finally Sagacity by Fulvio Ventura.
The result of a work begun in 1975, the publication of most of these images was expected as early as 1978, when Luigi Ghirri announced the release of Souvenir(s), which never happened due to the failure of the Punto e Virgola publishing house.
Sagacity, Sunstar and Salamandra was the original and complete title, as read a brass plaque found by chance in a printing shop. A work that Ventura then continued to transform, guided by a passion for esoteric philosophy, mystery, chance, jazz music and surrealist and mythological literature.
The sequence of this monograph is curated by Giulia Zorzi of Micamera, and is the result of numerous meetings with the author at his home in Ghiffa, on Lake Maggiore, abruptly interrupted by Ventura’s death on March 7, 2020. The design is by Jason Fulford.
The images collected here were taken over many years in different places in Europe; at the same time instantaneous and intentional, mysterious and ironic, often surprisingly cinematic, make up a coherent and autonomous metaphysical universe, governed by visible and invisible forces.
The Ice Plant Editions, 2021 – 1st edition of 500 copies
Hard cover, 26 x 18 cm – 64 pages, 33 black and white photographs
price: 33 €
You can find this book at the Micamera bookshop, via Medardo Rosso 19, 20159 Milan
or order it on the Micamera website: https://www.micamera.com/prodotto/sagacity-fulvio-ventura/
June 14, 2021
Seven new photographs have been added to the color album Fugitive visions