Curated by Ida Gianelli<\/p>\n
Known since the late \u2018Fifties for his fashion photography and his photographs of female nudes, where he reveals the fetishism and the sadomasochism of the contemporary glance, Helmut Newton (Berlin, 1920 \u2013 Los Angeles, 2004) counteracts the clich\u00e9s of the popularly disseminated photographic image with a universe of fantastical projections that, emerging from mass culture, appear to viewers as their own intimate realizations. On the occasion of the restoration of the Manica Lunga, Castello di Rivoli\u2019s new exhibition wing, Newton \u2013 struck by the unfinished, virtual character of the architecture and by the superimposition of the physical spaces of the Castello with a complex, symbolic staging \u2013 creates a photographic shoot, from which eight black and white images are in the exhibition. In these, the interiors and exteriors of the Manica Lunga are presented as the set for a suggestive narration, animated by both the memory and the potential of the space. Built to hold the seventeenth-century painting gallery of the Savoy sovereigns, this unified space, which develops along a single perspectival axis, is captured in images populated by visitors consisting of the museum staff and 400 boys and girls dressed black, portrayed while looking at the architecture or extending their arms toward it. The images seem to allude to future exhibitions, as well as to the necessity and substantial function of the museum institution.<\/p>\n
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