Exhibitions, Italy, Roma, 11 October 2019
Kromart Gallery within the annual review
Presentation of the Rome Art Week
Paradiso Italia by Mirko Orlando
From 11 to 26 October 2019
Free admission
Vernissage Friday 11 October 6.30pm
The author will be present with illustrative photographs and the book Paradiso Italia
«[...] The Mediterranean is not a sea. The Mediterranean is an immense mass grave where bodies without a face and without history lie, massed in the dump where we take the biographies we have discarded. This is where we all forget. As a child I enjoyed hearing the sound of the sea inside the shells. Today we hear the screams of all those who did not make it ".
BIOGRAPHY. Mirko Orlando was born in Naples in 1981. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he abandoned painting and the artist to devote himself to photography under the guidance of Roberto Bossaglia and Nicola Smerilli. For a frequent period the art galleries of the capital, where he discovers that art means very little without the accompanying speeches. He sets aside photography for a period and dedicates all the theoretical in-depth analysis of sociology, philosophy and anthropology. He writes for People of photography, The illustrated aperitif, Illuminations, Fotoinfo, History and the future. He publishes the essays on visual anthropology. Post-mortem photography (Castelvecchi, 2013) and For a general theory of post-mortem photography (Il Mulino, 2014). Pino Bertelli (who taught how to take pictures as they draw sanpietrini), takes up the camera and decides to devote himself to documenting the phenomena of social marginality. He works for the national periodical press and publishes some reportages on Barricate, A, Domus, Tracce, and the photographic book The face (the voice) of the street (Lindau, 2012). Then he travels around Europe, passes through Morocco, and spends a whole year wandering around Southeast Asia: India, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, where he learns to live and make do in the slums. Back in Italy he finds no less ghettos, less marginalization, less despair, and it is to give voice to this pain that he continues to take the shutter of his camera in a hurry. In the graphic novel Paradiso Italia (Edicola Ediciones, 2019), finally, it finds a balance between its many "personalities": a work of graphic journalism where photography, illustration and writing merge and collaborate even if they tell the stories that define our time.
Presentation of the Rome Art Week
Paradiso Italia by Mirko Orlando
From 11 to 26 October 2019
Free admission
Vernissage Friday 11 October 6.30pm
The author will be present with illustrative photographs and the book Paradiso Italia
«[...] The Mediterranean is not a sea. The Mediterranean is an immense mass grave where bodies without a face and without history lie, massed in the dump where we take the biographies we have discarded. This is where we all forget. As a child I enjoyed hearing the sound of the sea inside the shells. Today we hear the screams of all those who did not make it ".
BIOGRAPHY. Mirko Orlando was born in Naples in 1981. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he abandoned painting and the artist to devote himself to photography under the guidance of Roberto Bossaglia and Nicola Smerilli. For a frequent period the art galleries of the capital, where he discovers that art means very little without the accompanying speeches. He sets aside photography for a period and dedicates all the theoretical in-depth analysis of sociology, philosophy and anthropology. He writes for People of photography, The illustrated aperitif, Illuminations, Fotoinfo, History and the future. He publishes the essays on visual anthropology. Post-mortem photography (Castelvecchi, 2013) and For a general theory of post-mortem photography (Il Mulino, 2014). Pino Bertelli (who taught how to take pictures as they draw sanpietrini), takes up the camera and decides to devote himself to documenting the phenomena of social marginality. He works for the national periodical press and publishes some reportages on Barricate, A, Domus, Tracce, and the photographic book The face (the voice) of the street (Lindau, 2012). Then he travels around Europe, passes through Morocco, and spends a whole year wandering around Southeast Asia: India, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, where he learns to live and make do in the slums. Back in Italy he finds no less ghettos, less marginalization, less despair, and it is to give voice to this pain that he continues to take the shutter of his camera in a hurry. In the graphic novel Paradiso Italia (Edicola Ediciones, 2019), finally, it finds a balance between its many "personalities": a work of graphic journalism where photography, illustration and writing merge and collaborate even if they tell the stories that define our time.
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