Sudest57 comes back to Reggia di Venaria with another big retrospective, dedicated to Elliott Erwitt. After the great success of The World Of Steve McCurry with more than 170.000 visitors, Personae will be exhibited in the Sala dei Paggi, with Elliott Erwitt’s color prints, together with the black and white photographs, icons of international photography. Do not miss the Elliott Erwitt’s alter ego, Andrè S. Solidor, with his bizarre creations.
How Personae was created
Elliott Erwitt’s archive is composed by photographs taken since Forties. First, they are black and white, but then also color images are added. As many photographers who experienced the shift from one kind of film to the other, Elliott Erwitt prefers black and white for personal project and he chooses color pictures for editorial and advertising works.
In 2013, for the first time after several years, Erwitt opens again the drawers of his color archive: the book Kolors is born, his first book about color pictures. In 2016, Biba Giacchetti, the curator of the exhibition, flew to New York to choose together with him which images would be parte of his retrospective.
Personae, masks, because Elliott Erwitt can represent daily life of people, but in the meantime you can read in his photographs a sense of mask and theatre.
Elliott Erwitt and black and white
California Kiss, Paris Jump, the portrait of Che Guevara and Marilyn Monroe with her bathrobe and a book: Elliott Erwitt’s retrospective includes also his black and white icons. Irony, photographs with many meaning and shots of people who made history show a never boring Elliott Erwitt. These prints, exhibited in the same room, but in a different section, complete the itinerary of the exhibition.
André S. Solidor, Elliott Erwitt’s alter ego
When Elliott Erwitt talks about André S. Solidor, he does with indifference. During an interview he is surprised about how he could ever found an editor for his pictures. Elliott Erwitt creates his alter ego to ridicule certain kind of contemporary photography, which abuse useless nudity and eccentricity.
Biba Giacchetti is the curator of the exhibition, with the installation design by Fabrizio Confalonieri. Organized by Civita Mostre and Consorzio delle Residenze Reali Sabaude, in collaboration with Sudest57. It will be opened from Sept. 27th 2018 to Feb. 24th 2019. For more information about tickets and entrance, visit the official website Reggia di Venaria. At the bookshop, the catalog of the exhibition, Elliott Erwitt Photographs – The Sudest57 Collection, edited by Sudest57 and with his most famous black and white photographs, is available.
