United Artists of Italy

The  Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, from February 12 to April 12, presents "United Artists of Italy", a project of Massimo Minini. The gallery has gathered a collection of portraits of artists performed by the most important Italian photographers: the idea was to conceive a collection of faces taken from the artist's great Italian photographers, almost a world help each other, complementing each other.
The project began with a passion few years ago, has grown more and more thanks to the direct contact with the photographers who have embraced the proposal, and has been a real journey inside the photograph, between archives and boxes, films and files . If at first the idea was to select only portraits of artists, with time the focus has expanded, taking into account several portraits of foreign artists, but very close to Italy, as Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, faces of writers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, and even artists educated at work, in their study or in his free time and some of the most important art dealers as Lucio Amelio and Leo Castelli.
This collection creates a story of contemporary, not by works, but with faces, manners, attitudes. If you can consider the contemporary attitude, a way of being the work in your own time and in communion with the great issues of the moment, the maximum voltage on the contemporary is reached not with the body of the work, but with that the author, who lives in his own time, interprets it, gives voice, it is based, defining the boundaries of space and time.
The exhibition wishes to offer a cross-section of Italian photography of these years, demonstrating the extraordinary ability of interpretation and homage to great artists by great photographers. This is not a simple chronological collection of images, but a story, where the artist himself seen, read and interpreted by various photographers, proffers different facets of their own destiny. Often the picture says more than it is the intention of the author.
Through nearly two hundred and fifty shots, presents the work of twenty-two photographers active since the '60s: Claudio Abate, Aurelio Amendola, Gabriele Basilico, Sandro Becchetti, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Elisabetta Catalano, Giorgio Colombo, Mario Cresci, Mario Dondero, Federico Garolla Luigi Ghirri, Mario Giacomelli, Gianfranco Gorgons, Mimmo Jodice, Nanda Lanfranco, Uliano Lucas, Attilio Maranzano, Nino Migliori, Ugo Mulas, Paul Mussat Sartor, Paul Pellion, Ferdinando Scianna.
The exhibition was hosted at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Saint Etienne, at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, at the Fondazione Stelline in Milan, at the Biennale of Photography in Amsterdam and at the Estorick Collection in London.

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