Mondo Uno. Virginio Bruni Tedeschi
4 September – 3 October 2011
10.30-18.30, closed on Tuesdays
Sala Borges
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Free entrance
The works on show in this exhibition are part of the artistic patrimony of the Virginio Bruni Tedeschi Foundation. The selected photographs from 1985 to 2005 were presented for the first time in public at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris, from 27 September to 24 October 2008. Bruni Tedeschi’s black-and-white and Polaroid SX70 photographs convey images from a universe made up of journeys and everyday life, freedom and solitude. Unprimed real and dreamlike incidents mirror an artistic temperament in search of values and grace. Mondo Uno is an imagined journey – an exploration of feelings beyond time, chronological order and the photographer’s itineraries.
Virginio Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin on 20 September 1960. Throughout his life he took photographs every day gradually creating a kind of spontaneous poetic memory of the surrounding world. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication of Mondo Uno Virginio Bruni Tedeschi, conceived and edited by his wife Isabelle Bezin and Karine Chahin. The book begins with a text by the photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh, who describes a planned portrait that the death of Virginio Bruni Tedeschi, on 5 July 2006, meant he could never take.
The proceedings from the sales of books and photographs will go entirely to the Virginio Bruni Tedeschi Foundation, created on 12 February 2007 in Turin to commemorate the photographer. The Foundation is a non-profit making organisation and only pursues charitable social aims. Through its own financial means, in Italy and worldwide,
it promotes and develops projects and activities in the sectors of education, medicine and research. After signing a partnership with UNESCO, the foundation is now involved in an education and prevention project in four Southern African countries particularly badly hit by AIDS: Leshoto, Namibia, Angola and Swaziland.
