{"id":4898,"date":"2023-09-29T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionearnaldopomodoro.it\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:31:14","slug":"luca-bortolato-fotografie-inutili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionearnaldopomodoro.it\/en\/luca-bortolato-fotografie-inutili\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Bortolato. Fotografie inutili. Archivio fotografico ciclo-diffuso"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luca Bortolato
\nFotografie inutili. Archivio fotografico ciclo-diffuso
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curated by Federica Arcoraci
\nJune 30, 2022
\nStudio Arnaldo Pomodoro, Via Vigevano 3, Milan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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On Thursday, June 30th<\/strong>, the Foundation<\/strong> will host a stop of the traveling artistic project by Luca Bortolato<\/strong> titled Fotografie Inutili. Archivio fotografico ciclo-diffuso<\/em><\/strong> in the Studio of Arnaldo Pomodoro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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The project, curated by Federica Arcoraci<\/strong> and sponsored by the City of Padua<\/strong>, revolves around the revitalization of an old photograph collection<\/strong> sourced from forgotten family albums, which Bortolato has recovered and acquired over time. He breathes new life and meaning into it through a performative action that engages the public.<\/p>\n

Last April, the artist set off from Verona on an old bicycle for a journey that is taking him across all of Italy<\/strong>. At each stop on the journey, the artist performs a live action, inviting participants to choose one of the \u201cuseless photographs,\u201d which Bortolato stamps, marks with the location and date, and signs, gifting it to the participant. A portrait is then taken of the participant with their face covered by the photograph they received. Through the dual act of selection and giving, the \u201cuseless\u201d photographs are \u201creactivated\u201d<\/strong>, gaining new meaning and new life<\/strong>, and becoming part of a unique \u201cnomadic archive\u201d of the artist<\/strong>, who keeps track of all the \u201cno longer useless\u201d photographs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As part of the project, Bortolato will create a special variant<\/strong> for the Foundation, born from his encounter with the Archive of Arnaldo Pomodoro<\/strong> \u2013 where the study and \u201creactivation\u201d of photographs considered marginal is a daily activity \u2013 and with the poetic approach typical of the Master\u2019s work. Each photograph is a document of memory<\/strong>, a piece of the story of an universe of people, places, moments, and stories. And each photograph has a narrative power<\/strong>, inherent in the image but amplified by the presence of written words, stamps, dates, and references to people and\/or situations<\/strong> on the back: phrases that are indecipherable to us because they belong to other lives, lives that are not ours, writings that are ultimately incomprehensible and mysterious, just as the symbolic sequences that characterize Pomodoro\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Just as it happens with images, the encounter with these mysterious writings<\/strong>, between these traces of other people's lives and our own lives, our dreams, and our intimate stories, sparks the birth of new visions and interpretations, a new narrative that reactivates and gives new life to the \u201cuseless photographs\u201d<\/strong>. As a guest of the Foundation<\/strong> in the spaces of the Studio of Arnaldo Pomodoro<\/strong>, Bortolato will perform the Fotografie Inutili<\/em> performance, showing participants only the back of the photographs<\/strong>: each person will have to choose the photograph to \u201creactivate\u201d not based on the image, but on their curiosity or an unexpected resonance with the written traces on its back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t

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