ABRUZZO
Photographs by Michael Kenna
8 july – 8 september 2017
The exhibition was extended until October 30
Palazzo Casamarte, Via del Baio, Loreto Aprutino (PE)
Curated by Vincenzo de Pompeis
PROMOTED BY Fondazione dei Musei Civici di Loreto Aprutino
WITH HIGH PATRONAGE OF Regione Abruzzo
PATRONAGE Provincia di Pescara, Comune di Loreto Aprutino
OPEN from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00-13.00 and 18.00-21.00
from Tuesday 12 September will be open every day from 10am to 1pm and from 5.30pm to 8pm except Monday;
from 1 to 31 October will be open only on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 1pm and from 5pm to 8pm.
In October, it is possible to book visits during the week for groups of at least 5 people, except Monday.
TICKETS:
The cost of the ticket remains unchanged.
For schools: 4 euro for student and for teachers entrance is free.
MICHAEL KENNA
Widely considered to be the foremost landscape photographer of his generation, Michael Kenna has been looking at our world in ways quite out of the ordinary for over forty five years. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate primarily on the interaction between the natural landscape and human-made structures. Kenna is both a diurnal and nocturnal photographer, fascinated by times of day when light is at its most pliant. With night-time exposures of up to twelve hours, his photographs often record details that the human eye is not able to perceive.
Kenna is particularly famous for the intimate scale of his photography and his meticulous personal printing style. He works in a traditional, non-digital photographic medium. His exquisitely hand crafted black and white prints reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality. Kenna’s photographs have been shown in over seven hundred gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the world, and are included in such permanent collections as The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Over fifty monographs and exhibition catalogs have been published on Kenna’s work, including; Michael Kenna – A Twenty Year Retrospective (Treville, 1994 and Nazraeli Press, 2000); Impossible to Forget (Marval and Nazraeli Press, 2001); Japan (Nazraeli Press and Treville Editions, 2003); Retrospective Two (Nazraeli, and Treville Editions, 2004); Michael Kenna – A Retrospective (BnF, 2009); Immagini del Settimo Giorno (Skira, 2010); China (Posts and Telecom Press, 2014); France (Nazraeli Press 2014); and Forms of Japan (Prestel – Random House, 2015).
In 2001, Kenna was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture in France. Born in Widnes, England in 1953, he currently lives in Seattle, Washington, USA, and continues to photograph throughout the world.
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