Why to set up an exhibition?

    To sell?
    To show ourselves off?
 
     In conclusion, the same question could be put to who is going to build a personal web page.
    My answer is:
    to  make others  participate  and  to  grow.
    If it is true that the lack of circulation of ideas causes an inexorable impoverishment of our society, then it becomes a civic duty to be active in order to this would not happen.
    By the way, these are the reasons why I ask you to full up the questionnaire....


The beginnings

    All began when my wife and I decided to compose a sort of photographic book in a single copy, using the images that I collected in years of excursions in the mountains.
    When we completed the selection and paging of the images, we asked ourselves if it were right to keep only for us the outcome of our labour or it were better to participate it to others, for example exhibiting the photos during our summer holidays.
    We advised with Gianna Zanchetta, painter and friend of my wife, which exhorted us to do it without delay; so, overcome the last perplexities, we began an adventure that was quite new for us.


The exhibitions

    The images chosen for our book were about 140, large from 30x40 to 50x70 cm, too much for only one exhibition.
 
     On 1997 I exhibited a first selection of 32 photographs at the Recreative Club of ENEL in Milan ("Notes of an hiker"), and then a second one of 76 images in San Vito di Cadore ("Tramping").
 
      On the same summer, it ripened the idea of a new exhibition ("Allegro, adagio, allegro"), while I was devoting mainly to macrophotography. I exhibited these images the following year, again in San Vito and Milan.
 
      After a pause of a year, only to be skilful in some techniques that I knew but I never practised, on 2000 here is ready "On the thread of a dream". These images have been exhibited on August in San Vito di Cadore and on October and January in Milan. Twenty images from the second part have been exhibited at the Affori library (MI) on January 2001, in an exhibit titled "From the computer to the salted paper".
 
     In the meanwhile I have finished a collection of 30-40 B/W prints about 40x60 cm, which are waiting only to be exhibited. I have also begun a long and slow work for an exhibition on Venice, and I am also preparing a new collection of images devoted to the mountains. On 2001, a relatively quiet year, I exhibited some gum dichromate prints at the collective exhibition of the Rodolfo Namias Group in Vicenza.


The subjects

    I have always been attracted from the nature, and so most of my pictures, taken especially in the mountains, reproduce landscapes and natural particulars. As regards flowers, I ever tried to classify them, by means of not only scientific books, but also asking to some friends of mine, more experts than me.
    In particular, "Notes of an Hiker", "Tramping" and "Project for a book" contain an hundred of pictures of Dolomites; "Allegro, adagio, allegro" is almost interely devoted to alpine flora and naturalistic of Dolomites aspects, and at last "On the Thread of a Dream" avails of the particular mountain atmospheres to let ourselves enchanted read those images.


The places

    Almost all the pictures taken in the mountains refer to Cadore (a geographic region in the Northwestern Italian Alps), a region that one can easily reach also by train.
    In particular, the preferred area is that surrounding Cortina d'Ampezzo and San Vito di Cadore. In the images that I present you can meet the main Dolomitic groups (Antelao, Tofane, Cinque Torri, Cristallo, Sorapiss, Cadini di Misurina, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Paterno, ecc.), also seen from less known angle-shots.
    However, I have also a good archive of pictures of Venice Lagoon, mainly of its northern part, and, obviously, of Venice itself.


The techniques

    For a long time, I use only slides that I print by myself.
    I used a lot the 50 ISO Agfachrome Professional, till from it first incoming on the market, because it was possible to develop it also at home with a little of attention to the temperature (1/5 Celsius degree of tolerance). I use also Velvia and Provia, mostly for macro.
    I gained a solid experience on B/W, and I like a lot the creative works in the darkroom.
    Recently I began to discover the expressive potentials of the alternative (or "ancient") techniques and of the digital manipulation, that I like to use without twisting the original image content.


NOTE:
    For reasons of amount of the available space, I have chosen not to offer the possibility of enlarging all the images.
    Instead, I tried to show all the exhibitions as differently as possible, so avoiding that they look like a "collection of stamps".