MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo is hosting the new project by Sicilian artist Nicola Di Giorgio, winner of the eighth edition of the Graziadei Prize for Photography in 2022. The prize was established on the initiative of Studio Legale Graziadei in 2012 to promote the work of photographers under 35 and has been part of MAXXI’s photography program since 2019.
The exhibition continues the research begun by Di Giorgio in 2020 with “Calcestruzzo” (Concrete), the project that earned him the prize: a reflection on the theme of the overbuilding of the Italian landscape, whose fragility echoes the fragility of the human condition. Guided by a scientific approach and informed by dialogue with the history of art, his research opens up a reflection on both personal and collective experience, constructing a visual discourse in which each image is bound to the next by a common thread.
Among the subjects: the Scampia social housing complex known as the “Vele”, photographed shortly before its demolition; a reinforced concrete pillar evoking childhood memories of stories about “morti ammazzati” concealed within the fraudulent new constructions of the time; and the 2002 accident that struck one of the world’s most imposing reinforced concrete structures, the Pirelli skyscraper. Di Giorgio reworks fragments of a collective memory in which concrete emerges as the emblem of an unstable balance between design and hope, strength and vulnerability.
The exhibition also features a selection of works by past winners: Andrea Botto, Alessandro Calabrese, The Cool Couple, Rachele Maistrello, Francesco Neri, Luca Nostri, Pietro Paolini, Luca Spano, and Alba Zari.
Photo MAXXI, Nicola Di Giorgio, Calcestruzzo, Vele di Scampia, Napoli 2024
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