MonFest 2022 Fotografia - Maurizio Galimberti
From March 25 to June 12 2022
Sant'Evasio Cathedral (largo Agrisani)
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10AM to 01PM and from 03PM to 06PM
Free entry
Tributo a Leonardo (Tribute to Leonardo)
edited by Mariateresa Cerretelli
in collaboration with the Dadaeast Gallery in Rome
During the MonFest, within Le Forme del Tempo (Shapes of Time), the Time of the Spirit finds its expression in the entrance of the city’s Duomo where Maurizio Galimberti exhibits his Tributo a Leonardo (Tribute to Leonardo) with his personal reinterpretation of the L’Ultima Cena (The last Supper). The masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci L'Ultima Cena (The Last Supper), because of its power and immense beauty, has inspired major players in the art world, from Andy Warhol to Peter Greenaway, from Anish Kapoor to Masbedo. The Cenacolo (The Last Supper) of Da Vinci, reinterpreted by the profound and creative vision of Maurizio Galimberti and shown in the most suggestive space of the Cathedral of Sant’Evasio in Casale Monferrato for the MonFest 2022, is the result of a project born from an idea of the artist with his friend and collector Paolo Ludovici and it has required an extremely delicate process, so that Polaroid/Fuji Instax and digital pictures can work in sinergy. This is how the sacred and the sublime intensity of the Cenacolo (The Last Supper) are established in their entirety. And that rhythm, punctuated by the typical style of the author, creates a musical harmony carrying great spirituality. In this new analysis of the complete artwork and in capturing the details, a new and surprising force emerges that puts emphasis on shapes and colours. All these images constitute a new chapter in the search of the artist that counts many, in the extensive body of his production, subjects of religious character.
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Biography
Maurizio Galimberti was born in Como in 1956. His debut in the world of analogic photography begins with a camera with a Widelux rotating photolens and in 1983 he focuses his efforts, in a radical and definitive way, on to Polaroid. He becomes an official spokeperson, publishing the volume POLAROID PRO ART and reinvents the photomosaic technique to portray not only faces but also landscapes, architectures and cities.
He travels from Paris to Lisbon and all the way to New York, where he starts his career searching for light, looking for the energy inspired by this new city that will become for the artist the ideal representation of the contemporary world.
In 2003 he publishes the volume Viaggio in italia (Journey through Italy) , edited by Denis Curti, an account on a few places, through single polaroid pictures. With Fuji Italia he has conducted a big report on flowers, photographed with Fuji Instax Square, and published in two volumes.
Between November 2019 and the end of January 2020, his pictures on the Cenacolo (The Last Supper) of Leonardo Da Vinci have been exhibited at the Gallerie D’Italia of Intesa San Paolo in Milan. From 2019 he worked on a new photographic report, with the creation of the “Matrice Fuji Instax Square”, that will later be separated into a mosaic. He dedicates himself to specific projects dedicated to comics, sports and symbolic moments of History with the technique of the mosaic and the ready-made. -
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