ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI PALERMO
Corsi Triennali di Fotografia
The works on display here were created by second and third year students of the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts’ BA Photography program, taught by Sebastiano Raimondo and Sandro Scalia.
The theme of “Alterations” is explored in a place where neither architecture nor urban planning can be the measure of the new foundational core, nor the measure of man or the ordering code of the city. However, we must also be aware that a city is not built in a few decades. Its identity is defined over time, through an overlapping of the gestures, rituals, accommodations and relationships that make a space a place or many places a city. The authors record and document these dissonances. The city documented is still one without people, the effect of a disproportionately large urban center.
It is the objects and the search for their relationship that show the need for the search for a new meaning. Paying no regard to aesthetic satisfaction, the images document not Gibellina city of art, but a city that reflects all the contradictions of the contemporary, the preliminary urban plans, the accelerations and erasures of reconstruction. Disharmonies, but strong indications towards everyday needs, towards the fears and uncertainties of the present and the future.
The images in the exhibition chronicle urban change and architectural complexity, the new city and its daily changes, its transformations, but also the fragility of the landscape and the complex relationship between natural and man-made space.
“Alterations” refers to the changes undergone by a place that bases its identity on transformation and change, and on the continuous search for a balance to be achieved by successive approximations.
Text by Enzo Fiammetta
BIO
The Photography BA of Palermo Academy of Fine Arts’ aims to offer the knowledge of the languages and techniques of historical and contemporary photography and different fields of specific interest including: the different uses of photography in the documentation and representation of cultural heritage, scientific photographic investigation on artworks, digital archiving and sharing of images; as well as all the expressive, communicative, linguistic and operational aspects introduced by digital technologies.
Students of Palermo Academy of Fine Arts’ BA Photography program are: Luca Cardinale, Rossella Salvaggio, Beatrice Burgio, Noemy Restivo, Riccardo Raspanti, Jennifer Carlotta Salerno, Riccardo Balistreri, Caterina Arnò, Sofia Tumminia, Valerie Rosalia Basile, Martina Vaccarino, Federica Zizzo, Andrea lima, Antonio Militello, Fabio Piraino, Luca Vitello, Simone Macauda, Stefano Serafini, Simone Greco, Paolo Peloso