A city to browse. It is also open this weekend at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni of the Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca the photographic exhibition Brief distances (A city to browse) by Paolo Pacini, edited by Paolo Bini. Created with the Lucca Sviluppo Foundation and the patronage of the Municipality, Lucca Summer Festival, We Love Ph, Fiaf (Italian Federation of Photographic Associations), is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 3pm to 7pm, with free admission.
There are four sections that the public will find: The interval of shadows is the story that began during the pandemic: from the window of the editorial office where Pacini works, overlooking a square that was first empty and then crowded, the shadows move accordingly and are captured by the photographic shot. Mura, the bird oasis: taking advantage of the interval of the pandemic and the ecological corridors project, even the urban fauna has been enriched with new life, around the historic city walls, where the flight of aquatic birds has designed new spaces. Urban visions in black and white / Urban visions in color: here the walls, the monuments, the historic buildings act as a motionless counterweight to the flow of daily life, between full and empty spaces, lights and shadows, sometimes dreamlike atmospheres; Lhe city of music Lucca – Lucca Summer Festival: Pacini talks about the great names in world music who have met his goal over the years.
A series of quotes accompanies the visitor in reading the shots, from the Rolling Stones to Alda Merini, passing through Giuseppe Ungaretti, from Lucca by origins and memory.
Appointments also continue with Artchildren Tuscany section, which organizes meetings dedicated to schools, children aged 3 to 10 and families within the exhibition. The next dates are: Wednesday 15 May, Wednesday 5 June, Monday 10 June (at 5pm) and Thursday 13 June at 10am. For information, reservations and costs: [email protected] – cell. 3339676264.
Paolo Pacini, born in Lucca in 1963, professional journalist, for thirty years at La Nazione Lucca he has mainly dealt with crime and judicial news, but has made the professional eye a filter with which to observe the city and grasp its faces, sides, moments , like those on the stage of the Lucca Summer Festival, where he immortalized more than one big name, or like the flight of the herons over the ditches under the walls, one of the series for which he is best known as a photographer. Known online, since it is an activity that he carries out out of passion and mainly using social media as a “place of exhibition”, so much so that this exhibition is the first, in a physical sense, which is dedicated to his work, to Lucca. Pacini is part of the photography club WeLovePh, is a member of Fiaf and is particularly passionate about street and nature photography, as well as rock concerts. He has mainly participated in group exhibitions, recently guest with a project at Livorno Photo Day and some of his images were also welcomed as part of the event Photolux in the 2019 and 2021 editions.
