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EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY 2017 12th Edition - Time Maps. Memory, Archives, Future

The main cultural institutions and galleries of the town of #reggioemilia open their doors from May 5th till July 9th with a rich program of exhibitions, lectures, performances and educational events about the Art of Photography. 

The artists taking part to the current edition will explore their critical and creative approach towards the archives, seen here as a synthesis of their ideas of history and memory: understanding our present, envisioning our future. 
This festival, now in its 12th edition, thus confirms its national and international importance, with a wide program coming to life in the most inspiring spaces of #reggioemilia: there will be more than 30 official expositions, plus important events with our regional partners and with more than 300 exhibitions in the Off circuit. 


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Vernissage for members of the Press: #reggioemilia, Chiostri di San Pietro, Thursday May 4th, 2017 at 11.30 am. 
The2017edition of #fotografia Europea, “MAPPE DEL TEMPO. MEMORIA, ARCHIVI, FUTURO” strengthens its partnership with the Emilia Romagna Region and continues to widen its borders through synergies and collaborations with important regional cultural and artistic partners. 
The festival, now in its twelfth edition, goes indeed beyond the town limits of #reggioemilia, with festival-related exhibitions and events hosted by the Mast Foundation (Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia) in Bologna, by Csac Centro studi e archivio della comunicazione at the University of Parma, by Collezione Maramotti, a private collection of #contemporaryart based in #reggioemilia; also for the first time the Modena-based Fondazione #fotografia, one of the most interesting Italian players in the field, enters the festival.
These are very important partnerships, highlighting how #reggioemilia has been taking on itself a central role in the Emilia Romagna region and at the national level in the field of Photography - in terms of processing, comparison and research. It is not a coincidence that #reggioemilia was chosen, along with Rome, by the Ministro dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, Dario Franceschini, as the venue for the second appointment of the STATI GENERALI DELLA #fotografia. These are two days - April 6th in Rome and May 5th in #reggioemilia - dedicated to the photographic industry, with operators, professionals and international guests, with the goal of defining a development plan regarding state founding, investigating technical and economic changes in the industry, so that new opportunities for Italian photography are developed.


And there is more: the 2017 edition of the Fotografia Europea festival marks the beginning of a series of national collaborations: Photolux Festival in Lucca, Cortona on the move. International Photography Festival of Cortona and the Festival della #fotografia Etica in Lodi. The four festivals thus involved will exchange their views, with the objective of establishing a virtual network, thus influencing each other and creating new contents and shared photographic productions.


From May 5th till July 9th the town of #reggioemilia is hosting a new edition of the EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY festival, promoted by the Palazzo Magnani Foundation in collaboration with the Municipality of #reggioemilia; the #event focuses on Photography as the art form that best communicates and interprets the complexity of contemporary society. 
Exhibitions, lectures, performances, special and educational events will take place in the main cultural institutions and exhibition spaces of the town. Personalities coming from the worlds of photography, culture and knowledge, will elicit a dialogue among different expressions of creativity and thinking, thanks to a rich and wide program. 
Curators of the Festival Scientific Committee Diane Dufour (Director of Le Bal, Paris), Elio Grazioli (University of Bergamo) and Walter Guadagnini (Director of Camera, Turin) are coordinating the 2017 edition: Time Maps - Memory, Archives, Future.  They started by inviting the artists to go back to archives to investigate the relationships they have had with these spaces over the years. As expected, their experience is quite different, if compared to how historians and archivists live these places: their approach is critical and creative rather than strictly committing to the task of documentation. The ideas of history, memory and – therefore – our vision of present and future are called into question through the artistic eye. Let us think of the largest archive available to all of us, the internet, but also of the new ways through which documents can be manipulated and hybridized: performances, meta-data, post-truth. Photography, always seen as a recording tool, a way to document the past, becomes here a complex and assorted “Time Map”, that allows us to travel through new time dimensions, sketching our own multidimensional maps. 
As the Scientific Committee puts it, “Since the Nineties we have been dealing with the meaning of having access to such a never-before seen amount of information, as well as with the constant blending of real and virtual, of what is reality and what is manipulation”
“Focusing our quest on the interpretation of archives naturally means asking questions about images, about photography. Again: are these pure documents? Recordings? Pieces of data? Interpretations? Expressions? Imaginations? Transfigurations? Does all this belong to the past, the present or the future?”
“The title “Time maps” points directly at the power that images have, to draw the topographic chart of our memory, as well as representing a proposal for the future. This edition of “European Photography” wants to work with these ideas and apply them to factual current issues: forgotten roads, menacing situations, the search for alternatives. We envision the concept of archive not in terms of a space behind closed doors, of a conservative place: on the contrary. This is about a spread-out place where stories and images can be found and used to help us understand our present and imagine our future”.
REGGIO EMILIA
May 5th through July 9th
EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY 2017
12th Edition
Time Maps. Memory, Archives, Future 
 
Opening days: May 5th - 7th, 2017