A career tribute with 140 artworks
Palazzo Morando in Milan is hosting the exhibition
Miracoli a Milano. Carlo Orsi fotografo, curated by Giangiacomo Schiavi and Giorgio Terruzzi. The exhibition is a tribute to Carlo Orsi's career, which began in post-war Italy in the city of Milan, where the photographer divided his time between the editorial office of "Corriere della Sera", where he tried his hand at photojournalism, and the cultural hub of Bar Jamaica in Brera, a meeting place for painters, writers, and poets not far from his birthplace. These two creative workshops helped to shape Orsi's existential and intellectual matrix, nourishing his research and defining the roots of his photographic practice.
The 140 works on display, all in black and white and all printed under his supervision (before his passing in 2021), come from the Archivio Carlo Orsi, directed by his lifelong partner Silvana Beretta. Divided into four sections (Milan, Portraits, Fashion and Advertising, Reportage), the photographs highlight the central themes of his work, from journalism—which he began as a photojournalist for newspapers such as "Corriere della Sera", "Panorama", "Settimo Giorno", "Il Mondo", and "Oggi"—to his meeting with Ugo Mulas, which marked a crucial step in his development, to his work for major fashion and design brands. All his images reveal a departure from established models and the emergence of a dissident, ironic language that permeates every aspect of his photographic production, overturning the codes of image and visual narration.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, published by
Moebius, which brings together critical texts and testimonies from those who knew and collaborated with him, including the two curators Schiavi and Terruzzi, Gianluigi Colin, Roberto Mutti, Giovanni Porzio, and Gabriella Simoni.
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