Note: Gallery Talk/Slide Lecure/Neorealismo Postwar Photography in Italy

Note: Gallery Talk/Slide Lecure/Neorealismo Postwar Photography in Italy

THE NOTE BELOW HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY JOAN A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP:

We all know and love the NeoRealism films such as the Bicycle
Thief which is a classic example of NeoRealism. There will be a
Gallery Talk and Slide Lecture on the Neorealismo: Postwar
Photography in Italy exhibition by curator Enrica Viganò from
Milan on Friday April 4th, 6 p.m. at Steven Kasher Gallery, 521
West 23rd Street 2 Floor, New York, NY 10011

This is the first exhibition outside of Europe that surveys
Neorealismo, Italian postwar photography. It features over 90
black and white prints by 19 Italian photographers working from
the 1940s through the 1960s. Their work shares the concerns,
innovations, and goals of Italian Neorealist cinema.

The show was curated by Enrica Viganò and is presented in
collaboration with Admira, and with the support of the Italian
Cultural Institute of New York, and Bar Milano. It is based on
a larger traveling exhibition that has been seen at Centro
Cultural de la Villa, Madrid; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich;
Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (currently).

Gilles Deleuze, Francoise Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, and many
others have noted the extraordinary importance of Italian
Neorealist cinema. It was the first cinema to rise out of the
ashes of World War II and fascism, to shake off the dominance
of Hollywood and create a new popular vision. The films of
Visconti, De Sica, Rosellini, Fellini, and others developed an
array of new paradigms and methods. These include non-
professional actors, shooting on location, incorporating
documentary footage, non-narrative structures, improvised
sequences, open-ended conclusions. Neorealismo was the basis
for the French New Wave and inspired American Direct Cinema and
countless other filmmakers worldwide.

RSVP required (so they can get a head count for the Friday, April 4th event) to either the phone number 212- 966-3978 or
kat@stevenkasher.com
Neorealismo: Postwar Photography in Italy will be on view from
April 3rd through May 3rd, 2008. Steven Kasher Gallery is
located at 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours
are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm.
For more info or press requests please contact Kat Jones at 212.966.3978 or
kat@stevenkasher.com