In the Gallerie d’Italia, an exhibition brings a tribute to Enzo Sellerio – Milan

Milan – Born in Palermo in a grown and cosmopolitan family – the physical father and university professor, the Russian Jewish mother teacher at Palermo University – Enzo Sellerio is formed in the avid years of the Freed and Post -War Sicily.
Founder, together with his wife Elvira Giorgianni, from the well-known publisher, designed and edited the art and photography books, which invent the images of all chains.
At the end of the celebrations dedicated to the hundred years since birth, the great collector and refined interpreter of his time thanks to photography, a discipline that is practiced with consciousness and critical spirit since the early 1950s in the early 1970s, is in the center of an exhibition that can be visited from 26 February to 13 April 2025 in the museum of the Galaatenen.
The receivers of this trip entitled Enzo Sellerio. Small Sicilian anthologyMonica Maffioli and Roberta Valtorta, selected from the Enzo Sellerio 85 Photographs Archive, for most of the period prints, to which a series of prints has been added of non -published original negatives. From this small but precious photographic anthology, the places and people of his Sicily come up, unveiled by the crushing of traditional visual stereotypes that have long connected their knowledge of the island, making the most realistic, symbolic and conflicting aspects to the fore.
Fragments of lives, places, behavior, recorded with a free view of cinema and art history, interwoven into the shots of a protagonists of the season of the Italian report, near the French humanist photography of authors such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau or Idouard Boubat.

Enzo Sellerio. Small Sicilian anthology, Set -Up | Courtesy Gallerie d’Italia – Milan, Museum of Intesa Sanpaolo

“For the Gallerie d’Italia of Intesa Sanpaolo – Michele Coppola explains, executive director art, culture and historical goods of Intesa Sanpaolo – as a place of residence of their country means actively participating in the most important birthday clarks of Italian culture, which contributes to the distribution of our identity trip. Inserted, with an exhibition that the Sicily tells through the images and sensitivity of the great intellectual, photographer and publisher in Milan. This new initiative is welcomed in the Sala Delle Colonne, which is confirmed after the exhibitions about Maria Callas and Alighiero Boetti as a space of the arts, which is at the best of the main role as the main role players, establishes on the extraordinary personality of a master of a master of Italian photography “.

The path presents the fundamental cores of the work of this authoritative voice of Sicilian culture, a reference figure for many other photographers, artists, scientists, writers, in twenty years of activities. The first report, Borgo of God, Published in 1955 on the temporary “Cinema Nuovo”, it takes a central position in the field of Italian neorealistic photography. There is no shortage of the many photos taken in Palermo, in particular the shots that he commissioned in 1961 by the prestigious Swiss magazine “Du”, and still the story of Etna countries, made for the same magazine in 1962. Many portraits of artists, intellectuals and actors of the world of entertainment also Twentik was.