New exhibition at Palazzo Grimani in Venice

Since July 13, 2012 Palazzo Grimani in Venice hosts the exhibition “Echoes of the postwar Italian neo-realist photography,” a selection of images taken from the Historical Archives of the Photo Club La Gondola.

The exhibition charts the period from the early 50s and the 60s: during that period, the Italian photography abandoned the purely formal research to investigate the reality in the country, extensively renovating their expressive possibilities.

Within the exhibition you can follow two distinct paths. The first concerns the operation of the Club La Gondola, which was unusual compared to the mainstream of the movement, as he turned mainly to the lagoon city whose neglect of the monumental part, by the unusual architectural fabric surface and the muffled flow of daily life that not even the war seemed to have scalfitto. The fil rouge of the exhibition is a rundown through Italy, with the first hints of an economic boom that was transforming the country.

The exhibition “Echoes Neorealistici in post-war Italian photography” is also a wonderful opportunity to visit the striking interior of Palazzo Grimani.