MonFest 2022 Fotografia - Claudio Sabatino (English Version)
From March 25 to June 12 2022
The castle of Monferrato (piazza Castello)
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10AM to 01PM and from 03PM to 07PM
Free entry
Fotografare il tempo. Pompei e dintorni (Capturing Time. Pompei and surroundings)
edited by Renata Ferri
Pompei, the legendary apocalypse, a city buried and forgotten for over 1700 years, metaphor for unmeasurable time and human nature's vulnerability, is the object of the long photographic research done by Claudio Sabatino. The report, demonstration of his artistic and professional journey, through the fifty pieces exhibited for the occasion transports us in the stratification of history's layers to reflect on the changing relationship that the landscape has with both the past and the present. The ruins, magnificent testimony to catastrophe, and today’s village, witness of the unregulated property speculation, showcase the paradoxical relationship that socially redefines our heritage and its tutelage, offering a precious opportunity to reflect.
With delicate precision, Sabatino develops a narration via pictures by contemplating archeology as much as the surrounding city , images in which dazzling thousand-year old artefacts are compared to modern bleakness.
Maybe it is exactly from this paradox that his work can powerfully showcase the heartbreaking beauty of a journey that though it has lasted more than two thousand years, it is still able to affect the viewers.
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Biography
Claudio Sabatino was born in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) in 1967 and currently lives in Milan. While completing a degree in Architecture, during his university years he started doing photography, mainly committing to urban landscapes' representation.
While studying he is selected for the edition of “Napoli fotocittà – Dintorni dello sguardo” (Nopoli through pictures- a look at its surroundings). In 1998 he wins the Savignano Immagine award in Forlì and in 1999 the Marangoni award in Florence. In 2006 he gets a special mention at the Bari Photocamera International Award. His pictures are in the exhibition at the International Festival in Rome in the 2006 and 2008 edition; in 2009 he showcases in Reggio Emilia for the edition of European Photography. Winner of many awards and prizes, his work has recently been the focus of exhibits, like the one dedicated by the National Archeological Museum in Naples in 2018 on the themes of archeologic landscape. In 2021, to celebrate the 200 years of the birth of Gustave Flaubert, in the Jumiéges Abbey, in France, the exhibition “Visiter Pompei. Sur le pas de Flaubert” that encourages a reflection between the images of Sabatino and the travel journals on Pompei where the writer stopped in 1851 while returning from the East.
Since 2002 he alternates teaching to his research activities. He teaches “Linguaggio della fotografia” (Photography's language) at the Albe Steiner in Milan. -
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