L’AQUILA – “A project born with the intention of filling a void. In a city so rich in history and cultural stimuli, a collection dedicated to photography was missing, which today more than ever has fully entered both the world of art, placing itself among the most interesting languages of artistic work, and in the social dynamics of communication and behavior. Offering an opportunity to deepen the study and knowledge of this hybrid, mutant, seductive medium, knowing its history and its different declinations, therefore appears to be an initiative that needs no other justification”.
The Carispaq Foundation, chaired by Domenico Taglieri, and the “Andrea Bafile” Higher Education Institute of L’Aquila, directed by Sabina Adacher this morning they signed an agreement for the protection and valorisation of the “IN VISTA” contemporary photography collection owned by the high school.
The Carispaq Foundation, we read in a note, will have the task of enhancing the collection, safeguarding and conserving it with the aim of promoting its importance for the community.
The vice president of the Foundation also attended the meeting Pierluigi Panunzi and former teachers of the Art School Giampiero Duronio And Sergio Maritato.
The IN-VISTA contemporary photography collection was founded in 2008 on the initiative of two teachers, Giampiero Duronio and Sergio Maritato, supported by the then principal Domenico Evangelista. In recent years it has been enriched through free donations and bequests which, interrupted following the 2009 earthquake, continued after 2013 thanks to the contribution of many Italian and foreign photographers, who wanted to recognize the value and importance of the initiative and, perhaps, unconsciously manifest the desire to participate in the rebirth of the city with their work.
The Collection consists of around 400 photographs taken by around ninety Italian and international photographers including, Claudio Abate, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Elisabetta Catalano, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Ugo Mulas, Willy Ronis, Alan Ross, Marialba Russo, George Silk, Ernesto Treccani, Kim Weston, just to name a few. These are color and black and white photographs, printed with different techniques. And there is, as it should be, a representation of photographers from L’Aquila: Paolo Porto, Franco Soldani, Mauro Mattia, Vinicio Di Gasbarro, Claudio Luciano, Marcello Pezzuti and Pietro Cocco.
It is, therefore, an important heritage, representative of 20th century photography now considered fully a language and an expression of contemporary art.
The profitable synergy established between the “Fulvio Muzi” art high school and the Carispaq Foundation made the agreement between the two institutions and the transfer of the Collection to the headquarters of the Foundation itself possible.
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