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Riding a broomstick. Fairy tale, mith, storytelling

ex Asilo Viale Duca degli Abruzzi, L’Aquila

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.

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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

  • A RIBBON AND PRAYER – secular premises turned into sacred spaces, Binario49, Reggio Emilia (Italy), April 28 – June 11, 2023
  • Al di là dell’acqua – Lòt Bò Dlo, LCA Studio Legale, Genova (Italy), July 7 – September 30, 2022
  • 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