twelveperseventeen . It opens on Thursday 18 April, at 6pm
Piero Ottaviano’s widespread project is divided into 48 black and white shots, 12×17 format, which tells the story of Turin in images from the 1990s until today. They will be exhibited from Thursday 18 April to Friday 10 May at Phos, Turin photography center, Flashback Habitat.
The inauguration on April 18th will take place with the talk FROM/TO iconography of a city between document and imagination, in conversation with Elisabetta Buffa, president of Phos.
FROM/TO is a photographic project that aims to suggest how much the postcard refers to a relationship between media, in the interaction between writing and image. The author chooses a characteristic that can really give strength, value and recognisability to the operation, its diffusion. The postcard, by its nature, travels, takes its message elsewhere and survives over time.
On the occasion of the inauguration it will be possible to choose a postcard already stamped to send it, writing a dedication and giving life to the concept of the project, which consists of the exchange. A journey between sender and recipient that links the corpus of postcards, transformed into works of authorship, into a single common thread. A travel experience lived through images. Some left between the pages of a book to indicate a point of departure or arrival, others clandestine and placed in a drawer, still others hanging on the walls of the house.
With the aim of bringing Turin into the world, the city’s journey takes place through a medium born in the second half of the twentieth century, traditional, analogue, material which recounts Piero Ottaviano’s passion for postcards through foreshortenings and frontal shots, to underline their symbolic values . The collection of Turin photographs has grown and expanded over time, going through the transformations and social contradictions of a city, which seem not to have touched it. Piero Ottaviano continues his narrative over the years, changing cameras and lenses, experimenting with different ways and visions to bear witness to an undiminished beauty, that of Turin.
MARA MARTELLOTTA
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