La Spezia welcomes more than a hundred shots from the Carla Sozzani collection, from Helmut Newton to Man Ray – La Spezia – Arte.it

La Spezia – Through a process similar to photosynthesis, accelerated by an unsatiable curiosity, carla sozzani has transformed the magazines he directed, as elle and special number of vogue italia, but also the spaces that concept item stounded, as it was the founded placeed, as 10 corso. Sozani Foundation, in Authentic Visual Innovation Platforms, Generating New Languages ​​That Have Marked Culture, Fashion and Publishing from 80s To Today.

To the inspiration of flavors that, since the start of her career as a journalist, publisher and gallery owner, have compiled a prestigious collection that crosses all the eras of the history of photography, the Camec – Modern and Contemporary Art Center of the Spezia devotes the exhibition Photosynthesis. Photos from the Carla Sozzani collectionEdited by Maddalena Scarzella. The exhibition, which can be visited from October 18 to March 22, will embrace a selection of more than a hundred photos from the private collection of Carla Sozzani, shots ranging from Karl Blossfeldt and David LaCapelle to Helmut Newton, Paolo Roversi, Alfred Stieglitz, only shown.

“It is a great honor for me to be able to inaugurate this prestigious exhibition -explains the director of the Camec Antonio Grulli -. Carla Sozzani is one of the figures that most often formed the visual culture of the last decades international. -Garde to the age of today, conceptual and procedure”.

Karl Blossfeldt, Eranthis Cilicica, 1929 | Courtesy Karl Blossfeldt. Archive / Foundation Ann and Jürgen Wild, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

The large permanent collection of the Camec thus comes in the dialogue with an extraordinary collection of masterpieces of modern and contemporary photography, which confirms the calling of the museum to settle as a research and cultural center on the national scene.

“It is a privilege for me to take care of this exhibition that brings the collection of Carla Sozzani to the Camec of La Spezia: A Vision of the World, of the female and beauty that crosses the history of photography and finds the synthesis in this collection in this collection -MaddaDation Ararzelsella, Curator of the SOZ. PhotosynthesisThe works from the archive of the Sozzani Foundation meet in a new selection that gives life to a non -published dialogue “.

The exhibition, which will be presented on Wednesday 1 October at 11.30 am in Milan, in the Sozzani Bovisa Foundation, will be able to go in the CAMEC – Modern and Contemporary Art Center from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm.