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Underground Adventures (Photo) – International

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Ghella is the oldest Italian infrastructure company, specializing in underground excavations. Founded in 1867 by Adolfo Ghella, it has shipyards all over the world. In its long history, the company has always considered the visual documentation of its works to be fundamental. But to get out of an official and stereotyped representation, between 2019 and 2020 he chose a curator, Alessandro Dandini de Sylva, who would entrust the story of some construction sites to photographers, without intervening on the style and vision of each author.

Thus the project was born, and the exhibition at the Maxxi in Rome, Of rock, fires and underground adventures, which presents the works of five Italian photographers made in Europe, the East and Oceania: Marina Caneve, Alessandro Imbriaco, Fabio Barile, Andrea Botto and Francesco Neri. The goal was to combine the vision of a company with artistic research: “The photographic campaigns that make up this collection represent a precious resource because they not only document the realization of large engineering projects by skilfully combining representation and experimentation, but also trace the direction of future transformations of cities and landscapes in the twenty-first century, ”says Dandini de Sylva.

Fabio Barile was in Norway, in the railway tunnel of the Follo Line, the high speed that will connect Oslo to Ski. Barile starts from the study of geology to represent time through the shapes of the landscape. For the photographer, the landscape is a dynamic, layered system and to make this vision discontinuous and tell the story, the Follo Line has combined natural and artificial elements, apparently distant but connected in this constantly evolving system.

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Marina Caneve was in Athens for the extension of metro line 3, from Haidari, in the western residential suburbs, to the port of Piraeus. The photographer was inspired by the history of the place and followed the traces of the construction site focusing on the pre-existing city, which manifests itself in the archaeological finds and overlaps the dense urbanization of contemporary Athens.

Andrea Botto was under the Brenner pass, where the high-speed tunnel between Verona and Innsbruck is being built. Always interested in explosives, Botto makes a series of technical and formal attempts to create the image of a rush into the tunnel, that is, the process that leads to the explosion of rock walls.

Francesco Neri went to Hanoi, Vietnam, to follow the construction of the new subway. In a city spread over an alluvial terrain and which is home to more than eight million inhabitants, the photographer reflects on the impact of such a construction, focusing on the human figure as a measure of a great work in the intermediate phase of the construction site.

Alessandro Imbriaco documented the development of the Sydney metro network. The photographer was impressed by his first visit to the Victoria Cross cave, where the shipyard appears to him as the birthplace of an alien civilization. Thinking of the continuous exploration missions on Mars told by Ray Bradbury in Martian Chronicles, has decided to move in this alienating space as if it were an abandoned territory, in which to search for the traces of those who lived there in the past.

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Of rock, fires and underground adventures will be open until November 14, in the Extra Space of the Maxxi in Rome.

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