France celebrates Agrigento
France pays homage to the city of Agrigento in the year of the Italian Capital of Culture. And it does so by inaugurating a large photographic exhibition on the city of temples, at the “Maison Christian and Yvonne Zervos”, in Vèzelay, a medieval village located in the Yonne department, in Burgundy.
This is a series of shots by photographer Angelo Pitrone, from the immeasurable beauty of the temples to the most suggestive corners of the old city, chosen by the curator of the exhibition, the writer and philosopher Edith de la Héronnière, who is the president of the Zervos Foundation, linked to Agrigento for a long series of reasons that are not only artistic but also emotional.
Pitrone's photos, which are an act of love towards his city, are also accompanied by a pictorial journey by the French artist Jacques Bibonne, also in homage to the land of Agrigento and Sicily in general.
The title of the exhibition is “Agrigente intime” subtitle “Lieux d'écrituren Sicile” which translated means “The landscape of writing”, and in part the photographic exhibition takes up many of those shots by Pitrone already present in the project “Agrigento intimate” volume published in March 2023 by the publisher Medinova with the support of the Ente Parco Valle dei Templi. In addition to those shots there are many other unpublished by Angelo Pitrone who retraces “the landscapes of writing”, from Pirandello's Girgenti to Andrea Camilleri's Vigàta and Leonardo Sciascia's Regalpetra.
“To those who find the time to wander, to climb, to search, to look, to listen, to smell – writes Edith de la Héronnière in the presentation of the exhibition – to those who accept to lose themselves in the maze of streets or in the tangle of roads that surround the old city of Agrigento in an incomprehensible snare, the visible city will appear to which Angelo Pitrone restores his quarters of nobility”.
“In this new collection of images, it is the marginality of the vision that guided me in my choice,” echoes the artist-photographer Pitrone, who has been in France these weeks to follow the exhibition. “The subject is crucial for a new poetics, when the old themes of humanistic photography of the Bressonian type have disappeared. It is a renunciation of the canon of a traditional beauty, a democracy of the gaze,” Pitrone continues, “that places every element of our visual experience on the same level.”
The exhibition “Agrigente intime” will be open until August 30th.
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Some shots on display
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