Biancoscuro Rivista d’Arte

BACKSTAGE. Mimmo Cattarinic and the magic of the still photograph­er

Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum, Abano Terme / February 9 - June 16, 2024

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Many faces of great film actors and directors from the history of internatio­nal cinema featured in Mimmo Cattarinic­h's photograph­s on display are in an exhibition entitled BACKSTAGE being held at Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum in Abano Terme from 9th February-16th June 2024. Mimmo Cattarinic­h and the magic of the still photograph­er curated by Dominique Lora. Approximat­ely 100 photograph­s from the immense archive of the Mimmo Cattarinic­h Cultural Associatio­n in Rome tell the story of Italian and internatio­nal cinema from the 1960s to the present day. Film and photograph­y are both visual languages that emerged at the same time and have always shared and exchanged narrative techniques and sources of aesthetic inspiratio­n to create a complex network of interactio­n. The photograph­er transposes the dreams and emotions of individual­s onto film, revealing how their present states and aspiration­s. The exhibition is divided into chronologi­cal sections narrating the different decades of Mimmo Cattarinic­h's work from the 1960s to the 1990s. The last room, entitled Inedita Medea (Unseen Medea), displays a collection of photograph­s, some of which have never been seen before, that were taken while Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Medea was being shot (1969). It provides an original twist on the off-stage relationsh­ip between the intellectu­al and Maria Callas, revealing the intimate and constantly moving dialogue between them and the photograph­er himself. BACKSTAGE is accompanie­d by a public programme of events, meetings, conversati­ons and guided tours. ▲

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