Following the successes of recent months and, most recently, its exhibition on the work of Henri Cartier Bresson, the Mole Vanvitelliana will be hosting a major new photographic exhibition entitled Sebastião Salgado. Genesis. The exhibition, in the Sala Vanvitelli, is due to run from 29 September 2018 until 6 January 2019.
The most recent project of one of the most important documentary photographers of our time, the exhibition reflects Salgado's passionate drive to underscore the desperate need for us to save our planet, to change our lifestyle, to adopt new forms of conduct showing greater respect for our natural surroundings; in a word, to achieve a new kind of harmony. His work explores the origins of the world in an effort to safeguard its future.
Curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado to a project designed by Amazonas Images and Contrasto, the exhibition is promoted by the #comunediancona and organised by #civita Mostre.
In the wake of an immensely successful international tour, Genesis conveys a message both powerful in its unembellished purity and absolutely relevant to today, because it focuses on the theme of our planet's preservation and of the urgent need for us to live in a more harmonious relationship with our environment.
Genesis as a project kicked off in 2003 and lasted for 10 years, at once a paean of love for the earth and a warning for humanity. Showcasing 245 superb images that use enchanting black and white photography to conjure up a journey in pictures, the exhibition explores the rare beauty of the uniquely precious heritage that is our planet.
The exhibition comprises five sections covering the areas in which Salgado took his photographs: Planet South, Nature Sanctuaries, Africa, The Great North, Amazonia and The Pantanàl.
The exhibition showcases a series of photographs, many of them depicting astonishing landscapes, designed to illustrate a world in which nature and living beings still live in a balance with their environment. Part of Salgado's work focuses on animals captured by his lens after he spent an enormous amount of time immersing himself in their habitat. He lived amid giant turtles, iguanas and sea lions in the Galapagos, and he travelled with the zebras and wild beasts that roam from Kenya to Tanzania as they respond to the yearly call of nature urging them to migrate.
He devotes special attention also to the indigenous tribes that inhabit still virgin territory: the Yanomami and the Cayapó in Brasilian Amazonia, the Pygmies in the equatorial forests in the north of the Congo, the San #people in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, the Himba tribes in the Namibian desert and the tribes in the furthest reaches of the forests in New Guinea.
Salgado spent months with each of these groups in an effort to put together a collection of photographs illustrating the way in which they live in absolute harmony with their habitat.
The photographs showcased in Genesis are a labour of love dedicated to planet earth.
A unique journey exploring our environment, Salgado's latest project is a successful attempt to produce an anthropological atlas of the world, but at the same time it is an alarm bell, a warning to us all to preserve these uncontaminated areas in order to ensure that development does not become a synonym for destruction in our own time.
Taschen's splendid 520-page book devoted to Salgado's work will be on sale in the exhibition bookshop, along with his autobiography From my Land to the Planet and other titles such as The Scent of a Dream: Travels in the World of Coffee recently published by Contrasto.
“Genesis is a search for the world of our origins, for how it formed, evolved and survived for millennia before modern life accelerated its pace and began to distance us from the essence of our nature. It is a journey through landscapes and seascapes to discover #people and animals who have escaped the embrace of the modern world, it is proof that our planet still includes vast, remote areas where nature reigns supreme in the silence of its untarnished magnificence; breathtaking marvels at either Pole, in the tropical rain forests, in the sweeping savannas and burning deserts, amid glacier-clad mountains and on solitary islands – regions too cold or too arid for anything except the hardiest forms of life, areas hosting animal species and ancient tribes whose survival is due precisely to their isolation. The photographs in Genesis seek to illustrate this enchanting world, paying visual tribute to a fragile planet that we all have a duty to protect.” Lélia Wanick Salgado
Biography
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brasil, on 8 February 1944. At the age of 16 he moved to nearby Vitoria to complete his education and to attend university. He married Lélia Deluiz Wanick in 1967. After further study in São Paulo, the couple moved first to Paris and then to London, where Sebastião worked as an economist for the International Coffee Organisation. He and his wife returned to Paris in 1973 to embark on a career in photography. Working initially as a freelancer and then for the Sygma, Gamma and Magnum agencies, he and Lèlia went on to set up their own Amazonas Images agency. Sebastião travelled widely, initially concentrating on the Latin American indios and campesinos before turning in the mid-eighties to focus on famine in Africa, his pictures providing the material for his first books. From 1986 to 2001 he devoted his energy chiefly to two projects, first documenting the end of industrial labour in Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age (Contrasto, 1994) and in the exhibitions accompanying its publication (in 7 Italian cities).
Then he turned to mankind in movement – not just refugees but also migrants making for the sprawling metropolises of the Third World – in two successful books entitled Migrations: humanity in transition and The Children: Refugees and Migrants (Contrasto, 2000), their publication once again accompanied by major travelling exhibitions (at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome and the Arengario di Palazzo Reale in Milan).
Lélia and Sebastião also founded the Instituto Terra in Minas Gerais, Brasil, to restore a large area to its original state as an equatorial forest, planting tens of thousands of trees in which new life has begun to burgeon and nature has reclaimed its rights. The Instituto Terra, one of the most effective practical instances of natural territorial renewal in the world, has also become a leading player in the cultural life of the city of Aimorès.
Sebastião Salgado. Genesi
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