With the theme "Anima(l)s", the soul of the earth, in the streets of the historic center of Carona CaronaImmagina, an open-air photographic festival free to all, returns with its third edition. For four months the alleys and squares will be colored by the magic of blow-ups hanging from houses and walls. Guided tours, night visits or the free opportunity to spend a good time in one of the most beautiful historic centers of the Canton of Ticino. Not just a festival but also something to experience in front of or behind the camera, an important moment for enthusiasts and the curious.
CaronaImmagina presents for the first time in Switzerland, the open-air photographic exhibition "National Geographic Photo Ark", which illustrates the work of explorer and photographer Joel Sartore. It is a compelling and visually powerful project that aims to photograph and document, before it is too late, all the species that inhabit the world's zoos, aquariums and wildlife sanctuaries, inspiring people not only to take an interest, but also to help protect these animals for future generations. In addition to creating an archive for generations to come, this project is a platform of hope for conservation and spotlights individuals and organizations working to preserve species around the world. According to Joel Sartore's estimates, the "National Geographic Photo Ark," when completed, will include portraits of 20,000 species, including birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. In what will be the largest archive of biodiversity studio portraits ever created, "National Geographic Photo Ark" continues to pursue the goal of documenting all species protected by man, thanks also to Sartore's long-lasting relationships with many zoos, aquariums and wildlife sanctuaries of the world.
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12 March - 13 August 2023
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana – sede LAC, Lugano
Piazza Bernardino Luini 6
Rita Ackermann’s exhibition titled ‘Hidden’ will focus on a selection of recent paintings in relation to the artist’s early works from the 1990s.
The exhibition will encompass nearly fifty paintings and drawings developed over the past 30 years in New York City.
Rita Ackermann was born in 1968 in Budapest, Hungary and lives and works in New York City. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest and The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from the years of 1989 to 1992.
Ackermann invented images that became instant sensations, perturbing young girls that are now part of the universe of global imagery. Her drawings and paintings between 1993-95 (which will be included in the exhibition “Hidden”) depict compositions of adolescent female figures of clonelike multiples engaging in various self-destructive and hazardous activities. Her early works with their ambiguous presence serve as bridges between high and low culture, just as the myths and folk tales which often serve as merits to Ackermann’s compositions.
Twenty years later she would abandon the figure, erasing the very matter of her own work. In her ‘Mama’ series, a complex layering of visual language oscillates between abstraction and figuration into a subconscious unfolding of form—concealed deeply in the abstraction of the omnipresence. In early 2022 Ackermann began her latest series of paintings titled, ‘War Drawings’. Oil, china maker and acrylic are heavily worked into the surface of raw linen. Figures are lost, lines are scraped away to reveal shattered compositions. Each of the paintings subjugated by disaster as a purifying element for inevitable harmony.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual catalogue published by Mousse Publishing.
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