from 17 July to 31 August 2024
Opening Wednesday 17 July, 5 pm
Curated by Manuela De Leonardis
Within the program of Seminiamo Arte IV edition organized by MuBAq – Museum of Children L’Aquila with the coordination by Lea Contestabile and Antonio Gasbarrini and under the Patronage of the Municipality of L’Aquila is presented the collective exhibition Riding a broomstick. Fairy tale, myth, storytelling, with a title inspired by the tales collection Riding a broomstick (published on 1971) by the art historian Ernst H. Gombrich; through the topic fairy tale-myth-storytelling, the exhibition allows a transversal cross of different aspects of the human life, giving pedagogical information which are fundamental for the existence rules.
The fairy tale, the dream, the mirror, the myth, the game, the childhood, the memory, the storytelling are also the “keywords” that have led 18 international artists in the interpretation of this
wide argument, holding by hands the spectators of different ages in a trip – first of all – introspective. The fairy tale is also an abstraction exercise from the cliché, from the danger represented by a thick way of thinking, indoctrinated and foreseeable that implies a not predictable happy ending.
The B&N photographies by Massimiliano Camellini, belonging to the project The laboratory obsession, from science to dream, included in the collective exhibition, lead us from myth to creation, with an abnormal and horrific approach: in the photographic travel inside the laboratories of the SFX artists of cinema, where artists-scientists are compelled to re-create the human life from lifeless stuff, and where we can find the obsession which, since the dawn of time, stays with the mankind evolution.
As an imaginary orchestral sight, Riding a broomstick. Fairy tale, myth, storytelling transforms the first floor of the ex-nursery school in L’Aquila in an “enchanted” place, and for this reason evanescent, for adults and children.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
Miss T.V.’s room, Acta International Gallery, Rome (Italy), May 11 – May 31, 2022
a ribbon and prayer, Spazio Eventi “La Toletta”, Venice (Italy), March 12 – April 12, 2022
Al di là dell’acqua – Lòt Bò Dlo, SPARC*, Venice (Italy), December 4, 2021 – January 9, 2022
Al di là dell’acqua – Lòt Bò Dlo, Perth Centre of Photography (PCP) (Western Australia), January 24 – February 23, 2020
Al di là dell’acqua, Leica Gallery, Rome (Italy), July 7 – September 4, 2019
6 p.m., working time is over, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy), January 17 – February 17, 2019
AL DI LA’ DELL’ACQUA – LÒT BÒ DLO, Brick Lane Gallery, London (United Kingdom), May 22-28, 2018
WOPART 2017, The View Hotel, Lugano (Switzerland), September 9 – 17, 2017
AL DI LA’ DELL’ACQUA, Museoteatro Commenda di Prè – Genoa (Italy), July 7 – September 7, 2017
AL DI LA’ DELL’ACQUA, Bag Gallery – Parma (Italy), December 23, 2016 – March 5, 2017
MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) 2016, The Mall, Milan (Italy), April 28 – May 2, 2016
6 p.m., working time is over, Magazzini San Pietro, Formigine, Modena (Italy), September 17-23, 2015
La suite du temps, Massimiliano Camellini & Yves Bresson, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Saint Etienne (France), February 14 – May 17, 2015
Italian Nostalgia, Massimiliano Camellini, Cesare Di Liborio & Luca Gilli, Museo della Fotografia, Seoul (South Korea), September 13 – November 8, 2014
Human Landscape – Mario Giacomelli & Massimiliano Camellini, curated by Artistocratic Gallery, MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) 2014, Superstudiopiù, Milan (Italy), May 22 – 25, 2014
6 p.m. the working time is over, Europhotofestival of Italian Photographic Archive, Busto Arsizio, Varese, (Italy), October – November 2013
6 p.m. the working time is over, MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) 2013, Milan (Italy), May 2013
LABORATORY OBSESSION, Mandeep, Photography and beyond, Rome, Resonance of the International Rome Film Festival 2010, Rome (Italy), November 3 – December 4, 2010
DUEL, Sala della Partecipanza, Pieve di Cento, Bologna (Italy), March 25 – April 1, 2007
DUEL, Officine Fotografiche, Rome (Italy), October 28 – November 10, 2006
DUEL, Olympic Village, Fencing World Championship 2006, Turin (Italy), September 29 – October 14, 2006
DUEL, Palazzo Calcagni, Reggio Emilia (Italy), March 11 – April 14, 2006
THE FLYERS, Artévision Fotografia, Turin (Italy), February 18 – March 5, 2006
SPOJRZENIE ZZA KRAT (BEYOND THE CAGES), Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow (Poland), May 25 – July 3, 2005
I VOLANTI, 2nd Festival of the Wanderers, Compiano, Parma (Italy), July 3 – 23, 2004
THE FLYERS, MAGI – Museum of the Arts of Italian Generations “G. Bargellini”, Pieve di Cento, Bologna (Italy), January 10 – February 1, 2004
RITRATTI IN VENDITA, Paths in Black and White, Castelbolognese, Ravenna (Italy), November 9 – 18, 2001
OLTRE LE GABBIE (BEYOND THE CAGES), Palazzo Bentivoglio, Gualtieri, Reggio Emilia (Italy), September 8-30, 2001
RITRATTI IN VENDITA, Libreria all’Arco, Reggio Emilia (Italy), February 19 – March 11, 2000
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Short Street Stories, Trieste Photo Days Festival 2019, Palazzo “U. Veruda”, Trieste (Italy), October 22 – November 10, 2019
13 year and a century /photography, Fabbri Award for Art VI Edition, Bologna (Italy), December 7, 2018 – February 17, 2019
Rendez-Vous sur l’Image, Strasbourg Photobook Show, January 2017, Strasbourg (France).
Photobook Show, Athens Photo Festival 2015 (APhF15), Benaki Museum, Athens (Greece), June 3 – July 26, 2015.
The Darkroom Project Exhibition, Tevere Art Gallery, Rome (Italy), December 2014
CIRCO ENTRE MAGIA Y REALIDAD, Fotonoviembre 2007, Santa Cruz del Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), curated by Admira, November 9 – December 10, 2007
SCOPRIRE CON GLI OCCHI. OMAGGIO A LENTINI, Palazzo Bentivoglio – Salone dei Giganti, Gualtieri, Reggio Emilia (Italy), September 19 – October 17, 2004
CHASSEZ LE NATUREL, MAMAC Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege (Belgium), February 14 – March 31, 2004
LE BESTIAIRE: PARCOURS DANS LA COLLECTION DU CRP, Center of Photography Nord Pas de Calais, Douchy Les-Mines (France) – November 14, 2003 – January 14, 2004
AUTOUR VASCO ASCOLINI: LES PHOTOGRAPHES DE REGGIO EMILIA, Photography Museum of Charleroi, Charleroi (Belgium), June 7 – September 7, 2003
CARATTERI DEL LUOGO. SULLA FOTOGRAFIA ED IL GENIUS LOCI, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Gualtieri, Reggio Emilia (Italy), September 15 – October 13, 2002
PER ABITARE LA CITTÀ: CULTURA/IMMAGINE, Sala Giardino Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia (Italy) June 23 – July 22, 2001
