Opening on Sept. 25, 2021 at the Granaries of Villa MimbelliMartinParr in Livorno with the exhibition “Life’s a beach “Among the most important international documentary photographers Livorno, Sept. 23, 2021 – It took tenacity and determination to keep an appointment that had been missed due to the pandemic.
An exhibition by Martin Parr, internationally recognized as one of the greatest contemporary photographers, who has transformed documentary photography into art photography through an extremely original point of view and an exaggerated use of color, finally arrives in Livorno.
The shots of the photographer from the prestigious Parisian agency Magnum land in Livorno with the exhibition “Life’s a beach“: the exhibition will open Saturday, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. at the Granaries of Villa Mimbelli (Via San Jacopo in Acquaviva, 65) home of the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum.
There will be 56 photographs on display and they will tell the story of the world of bathers in their free time, while lying in the sun, without “defenses,” in bathing suits, while relaxing. “Life is a beach or the beach is life,” says Giovanni Laviosa, president of the Carlo Laviosa Foundation. If humans tended to seek out their community, understood as individuals who look alike, they might do so on the beach as well.
Thanks to Martin Parr for giving us food for thought by showing us what we often miss.
I am reminded of the difference between education, understood as a cross-community respect for differences, and manners, another manifestation of seeking one’s community but sectarian and hypocritical if an end in itself.
In short, ahead in life to seek that which costs effort to achieve even on the beach “.
The exhibition, which takes on multiple meanings related to Livorno, which has always been a city of the sea that has made bathing a way of life, is promoted by the Carlo Laviosa Foundation in co-partnership with the Municipality of Livorno and the Magnum agency in Paris.
“Martin Parr,” explains Serafino Fasulo, curator of the exhibition. is a reporter of the everyday, a worker of the gaze, photographing habits and customs that tell the human soul, unmasking the clichés behind which triviality, grotesqueness and degraded culture are often hidden.
He is able to see what we are addicted to and put us in front of a mirror that returns an image that is anything but gratifying.
He manages to find great themes of reflection on the human condition with a humor that borders on sarcasm, placing us, for once, not in front of the vices of others but our own “.“Martin Parr,” states Culture Councilor Simone Lenzi. photographs the splendid irony of the real, the tender and boisterous vitality of men.
I am extremely happy to finally have this exhibition in Livorno, after the forced postponement of a year due to the pandemic.
I find it extremely fitting for our city, besides being an event of objective quality and artistic depth “. The exhibition will be open until Dec. 12, 2021, on Thursdays and Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.
Full admission €5, reduced €3.
Full cumulative (Parr exhibition plus Fattori Museum) 7 €, reduced 4 €. Guided tours for schools by reservation: 0586/808001 and 0586/824607.
