ITALIA REVISITED #1, the solo show by Massimo Baldini, opens on Saturday 20 April at the Sabe Foundation for art in Ravenna

On Saturday 20 April at 11am, the Sabe Foundation for art presents ITALIA REVISITED #1. Image samples, personal exhibition by Massimo Baldini, curated by Claudio Marrawith the patronage of the Municipality of Ravenna and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna – Ravenna Campus and created in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna.

Massimo Baldinia photographer born in Ancona but Bolognese by adoption, is the author of a new way of seeing the Italian landscape, sampled through images in his first volume of Italia Revisited #1, characterized by irony and inconsistencies: the lampshade of a lamp winks at the dome by Brunelleschi, Michelangelo’s David guards an ATM, a Riace bronze guarantees a TripAdvisor report, the decorator of a pizzeria quotes Edvard Munch.

After having worked in publishing for a long time, Massimo Baldini he dedicated himself exclusively to photography. Among his personal exhibitions: Italianité, Paris, Maison de l’Italie, 2017; A Tour not so Grand, Bologna, Carlo Gajani Foundation, 2018; White Noise, Milan, Made4Art Gallery, 2022. He published the photographic book Gli italiani, with texts chosen by Claudio Giunta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019. With Human / Nature he participated in MIA Photo Fair, Milan, 2024.

Claudio Marra, former full professor of History of Photography at the University of Bologna, through texts that constitute a point of reference in the sector (from The Ideas of Photography 2001 to Nello ombre di un dream, 2004, from L’image infedele, 2006, to Fotografia and painting in the twentieth century (and beyond), 2012, from Photography and visual arts, 2014 to What is photography, 2017) investigated from a historical perspective the relationships between photography and visual arts, as well as those with the specific sector of fashion, together to theoretical aspects linked to the identity of the medium and to the problems opened by the transition from the analogue to the digital system.

Sabe Foundation for Art was born in November 2021 with the aim of promoting and disseminating contemporary art – with particular attention to sculpture – in the city of Ravenna through exhibitions, meetings, screenings and other cultural activities. Chaired by Norberto Bezzi and Mirella Saluzzo, it avails itself of the consultancy of a scientific committee coordinated by Francesco Tedeschi, professor of history of contemporary art at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, and composed of Claudio professors of the University of Bologna Marra, Federica Muzzarelli, Gian Luca Tusini and Claudio Spadoni, former director of the Art Museum of the city of Ravenna. The artistic direction is entrusted to Pasquale Fameli, art critic and scholar from the University of Bologna. Located a few steps from the MAR – Ravenna Art Museum, the Foundation is also dedicated to cataloging the works of Mirella Saluzzo and establishing a library specialized in contemporary sculpture.

Headquarters Sabe Foundation for Art via Giovanni Pascoli 31, Ravenna
Period 20 April – 30 June
Inauguration Saturday 20 April at 11am
Opening hours Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 4-7pm
Free admission