After the exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Lucca, which recorded the presence of around 4,500 people, the traveling photographic exhibition “Vissi d’Arte – Opera Omnia” by the Lucchese photographer Dantès, arrives in Viareggio, in the prestigious location of Villa Argentina.
New shots that integrate and also qualify the area of the Versilia coast: Viareggio with its fishermen, shipyards and papier-mâché artists; Pietrasanta with its foundries and artisan workshops of marble and mosaic art; Seravezza with its marble quarries and the ancient work of quarrymen and teachers.
From 11 September to 9 November 2024
Viareggio – in the exhibition rooms of the splendid Villa Argentina
Via Amerigo Vespucci n.44
Gps – 43.87482, 10.24599
Opening days:
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
09.30 / 13.30
Tuesday and Friday
09.30 / 13.30
3.00pm / 6.30pm
Winter timetable from 1st October to 30th April
Closed Monday and holidays
Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday – Saturday
09.30 / 13.00
Tuesday and Friday
09.30 / 13.00
14.30 / 17.30
Closed on Mondays and holidays
Gps – 43.87482, 10.24599
- The photographer made himself available free of charge, by appointment, to accompany groups of students and visitors on this fantastic journey, telling the background and anecdotes that characterized its planning and creation.
Contact – also WhatsApp 349.6093206.
E-Mail – info@dantesfoto.it
Sito Web: www.dantesfoto.it
Free admission The place is accessible and can also be visited by people with reduced motor or sensory abilities.
85 photographs – Fine Art – black and white, large format, on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta 325 gsm paper mounted on 60×42 panels.
The essence of the exhibition.
Approximately 85 fine-art works in black and white will be exhibited in the 4 exhibition rooms on the ground floor, printed in large format and mounted on 60×42 panels which will be entrusted with the ambitious task of best illustrating, like an anthropological tale, the artistic, cultural and above all artisanal activity of women and men of the province of Lucca: From Garfagnana to Versilia, passing through the city of Lucca, the Lucca plain and the Mediavalle of the Serchio river.
A job that required years of research and unprecedented planning!
It is their eyes and their gaze that leave their mark on the viewer, it is the frenzy of their hands – often deliberately immortalized in movement by the photographer’s camera – that dominates many of the shots, candid and light hands, contrasted with those experienced and sculpted by time, but all united by the perfection of a gesture performed thousands of times.
And so the photographic reportage becomes an intimate and silent dialogue between photographer and Maestro, a black and white anthropological story from which one emerges emotionally enriched, it is so direct and engaging.
Dantès’ shots allow you to immerse yourself in real, authentic and detailed environments, to find yourself face to face with stages and squares, laboratories and workshops, shops and factories, fields and docks, ports and quarries.
Nude, alive, tangible photography.
The entire work (hence Opera Omnia) of approximately 105 images plus the backstage of the artist’s creation, will be projected in the “Video conference room” during opening hours.
“”I don’t know if with this reportage I managed to convey the same sensations that I felt, in finding myself in those places that I would dare call “sacred”, with those extraordinary people, however, the awareness of having fixed over time a glimpse of the 21st century, with deep roots in the past.
A document for the new generations, because photographing traditions is the only way to preserve their memory.””
From 11 September (inauguration date) to 19 October inclusive, in Viareggio – in the exhibition rooms of the splendid Villa Argentina Via Amerigo Vespucci n.44.
It is also available in the exhibition room, a conference room with a loop projection of the complete work and its Backstage, with fun curiosities.
All photos are accompanied by detailed captions on the artist photographed, his work and some curiosities.
