Albert Watson’s Rome can be seen in Palazzo Esposizioni – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – For more than two years, “Sir Albert Watson” wandered without a destination around Rome.
Only accompanied by the rhythm of the eternal city has the photographer who has affected the personalities of the caliber of Alfred Hitchcock, Steve Jobs, Kate Moss, the energy of the capital of the historic great and daily vitality.
The result was a collective portrait of contemporary Rome, a tribute in which intimate and spontaneous human moments dialogue with the architectural and historic grandeur of the city, in a game of references between Rome and those who live and define.
Until 3 August we meet this city in Palazzo Esposizioni, within the exhibition Roma CodexThe biggest photographic exhibition ever made in Italy dedicated to photographer Albert Watson, one of the most iconic of our time.
PhD by the culture of Roma Capitale and special company PalaExpo, produced and organized by the special company PalaExpo with FP Studio, The Exhibition, edited by Clara Tsi Pamphili, throws a powerful and intuitive photographic view of the city, explores much further than its visual stereotypen.

Albert Watson, Rome Codex © PalaExpo Special Company | Photo: © Alberto Novelli

In fact, the photographer breaks down every hierarchy in New York and ensures that a portrait, a landscape, an interior, an anonymous face or a celebrity is convinced with the same narrative intensity. As a whole Roma Codex It offers a visual compass, at the same time instinctively and meticulously, to decipher a place full of contrasts. From this project, born from an original idea of ​​FP Studio, which, together with the special company PalaExpo, has fully cared for and produced the photographic work interpreted by the great photographer, a contemporary anthropological story of the most authentic essence.

“I did not want to observe Rome with preconceived ideas or with the pressure to have to make it immortal what the audience expects to see. The city flows from history, but I was interested in what happens between the monuments, in the faces, in the movement. I instinctively photographed the result of the underground of the Van Dance schools, Van Dance schools to the Onderse Scholen, Van Dance schools, of the Van Dance schools, of the Van Dance schools, case.

Albert Watson, Rome Codex © PalaExpo Special Company | Photo: © Alberto Novelli

Two hundred photos in black -white and color, much of large format, founded in the first three headrooms of Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, ranked according to a logic determined by the Instinct, accompany the guests of the Colosseum of the Capochins, Capochins, Hapuchins, Camectia, Camem, Campios, Cames, Cames, Cames. Antica, the terrace of the Gianicolo, Porta. The imperial circus. We dive into via Dei Pianellari to lose ourselves in the presence of the Pyramid Cestia. Ponte Sisto looks like a magic in a prey, while via Di San Pietro in prison is an intimate corner of blue, the same that frames a performance of the Orfei Circus.

The human fabric of the city vibrates in the portraits of Paolo Sorrentino, Valeria Golino, Luca Bigazzi, Luca Zingaretti, Isabella Ferrari, Benedetta Porcaroli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Celeste della Porta, Kasia Smutniak, Saul Nanni, Pierfrancesco Favino, Elisabetta Benassi, just to name a little.
Watson follows the obvious, a layered atlas of the bustling and pulsating spirit of the city, a place in continuous evolution of the most remote times, a intersection of different cultures and worlds, suspended between the size of its history and the energetic avant -garde of the present.