All this will be the tenth edition of Phest – The International Photography and Art Festival that this year returns to Monopoli with great news from the world of international art, of the photographic exhibition of Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the most visionary and award -winning contemporary Cinema, one Goya’s grilling.
The agreement, which embraces approximately thirty exhibitions, is from 8 August to 16 November. The first event marked on the agenda is the one with the exhibition Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos – The reason for monstersEdited by Roberto Lacarbonara and Giovanni Troilo, the first in South -Italy dedicated to one of the largest masters of the Western imagination. The complete series of the famous Caprichos – 80 engravings made by Goya between 1797 and 1799, exhibited from a nice concession of the Bellas Artes Museum of València – will involve the audience with the satirical cut and the dreamy vision of the Spanish master that characterizes the contradictions of the Spanish Society of the Time Barese.
The theme of the year crosses the entire edition as an open question, a shared horizon This is us – a capsule to space It is the common thread that leads the artistic choices from director Gianni Troilo, the curator for photography Arianna Rinaldo and the curator for contemporary art Roberto Lacarbonara. In 1977, Nasa launched the Voyager probes in the interstellar space with the golden record on board, a message intended for possible alien alive forms: sounds, images, music to tell who we are. Almost 50 years later, Phest builds his capsule – made from photos, installations, contemporary languages – to send it to the symbolic space of the future, as a visual archive of humanity.
Benidorm, Spain, 1997 © Martin Parr / Magnum -photos
In Absolute Preview for Italy, Phest presents an exhibition dedicated to the visual universe of Yorgos Lanthimos, one of the most visionary and award -winning director of contemporary cinema. Compiled by João Linneu, and made in collaboration with Photofestiwal Yorgos Lanthimos, Jitter period It is an intimate exploration of his imagination, where photography and cinema chase each other in a coherent, elegant and disturbing universe.
The route welcomes a selection of the most recent recordings of the director, in which the same sentence as the absurd, the theatrical composition and the narrative tension that his cinema crosses is recorded. But the Peet exhibition of this X edition will be devoted to a large British photographer who is known for the dry and direct style of his photography, often defined as “social” and bitter sweet. Martin Parr. Martin Parr, happy to meetEdited by Giovanni Troilo and Arianna Rinaldo, offers an ironic, clear and deeply human portrait of our society.
Parm will also be in Monopoli on 27 and 28 September for a meeting with the audience and for the display of the documentary “I Am Martin Parr”, in collaboration with Wanted Cinema.
The New York photographer Sam Youkilis, for the first time in Italy with the exhibition Under the sunEdited by Sophia Greiff and with the video and audio blunt of Jens Lüstraeten, produced by C/O Berlin Foundation, pioneers a new form of visual story that iPhone and Instagram uses to make and share his original contemporary Wundermkammer. Instead, Aleksandra Mir chooses to bring the shops of the historic center of Monopoli, with a widespread exhibition, the Christian iconography in an unusual journey to the sideral space between faith and science. “If angels and astronauts share the same heaven – the Swedish -American artist wonders – is not the time to present them?”.
Instead, the black -white is the ritual, rural and ancestral dimension of human life that the American photographer Dylan Hushor brings together What could bring the rain. GREGG SEGAL brings his work committed to consumption and the exhibited environment, where the topics are depicted surrounded by their weekly waste, in a powerful gesture of consciousness, while Deanna Dikeman, with The place of ordinary momentsAn intimate and moving photographic project, says the passage of time in the family atmosphere. If Pietro Terzini, an artist and designer Capable of Intertwining Narration, Aesthetic and Reflection on the costume, presents in Monopoli a work to the neon Conceived in the context of the tramart project with the San Marzano Winery Betwen, the Relationship Betra Inaugurated with a virtual exhibition in Piazza Palmieri and the Publication of A Magazine of the students, who tell the theme of the festival through their creations through their creations. Visive, after a seminar with the curator Arianna Rinaldo.
Of “Types of kindness” © Yorgos Lanthimos
As the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko, with the cult series Shadowsoffers a spooky and poetic story about post-Soviet discontinuation, the conceptual artist Phillip Toledano, with We are at warSet a visual story for the result of artificial intelligence. The British Zed Nelson, with The illusion of the anthropoceneinvestigates the relationship between nature and art in the era of the ecological emergency, while the Irish Rhiannon Adam talks about his broken dream to participate in a civilian journey to the Moon in the series RHI-ENRY. With his post-anthropocene landscapes with each other, however, Lorenzo Poli connects holy geography, spirituality and memory of the planet.
To celebrate the ten years of the Phest, there will be a large widespread exhibition that focuses on the artists’ homes that have marked the history of the festival. Italian and international photographers, young debutants and recognized masters who have gone through Monopoli and Puglia, looks, stories and visual signs that are printed in the collective memory.
“This tenth edition – explains the artistic director Gianni Troilo – is an attempt to represent who we are today. A message in visual bottle that can cross space and time, tell identity, relationships, fears, desires, dreams. A collective experiment between memory and future, between science and imagination.”
The theme decreases in a program that combines photography, contemporary art, installations, compelling experiences, in dialogue with the past and challenges of our time. What do we want to leave to the future? What images would it earn to survive our civilization?
Ten years after birth, Phest inaugurated a new chapter in his history with the opening of the monastery of San Leonardo, a headquarters of the festival that is waiting for the historic spaces of Palazzo Palmieri to be usable to the public. Under the guidance of Cinzia Neghenbon, organizational director of Phest and coordinator of the team, this symbolic place will finally return accessible after years of closing and abandoned thanks to Phest, the architect of the recovery of spaces, the safety of the rooms and their cultural reactivation.
The opening of the monastery is therefore loaded with a political and symbolic value: to live forgotten places, to contrast the approval of mass tourism, to promote a culture of inclusion and slow regeneration that improves local rhythms and identities.
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