paolo Simonazzi

So near, so far

 
Collezione Maramotti presents a selection of fifty photographs by Paolo Simonazzi.

The exhibition attempts to bring into focus his gaze on our territory, meant as a crossroads of semantic, cultural, language, visual communications, through a series of shots covering twenty years of Simonazzi’s work (from the mid-Nineties to 2014).

In our territory one may found a very peculiar osmosis with the rest of the world: objects, words, ways of being together reveal a tension towards an otherness which is re-visited and re-invented while keeping true to a genuinely “local” flavour. Everything looks driven by the awareness and the desire to recognize oneself in an already globalised world, while never foregoing social rituality, the special relationship with time and space bringing and linking one back to solid local roots.
Simonazzi’s pictures tell us how what is extraneous, the other, is merging with the domestic, the everyday life in the province, often with a rural flavour; they do not portray kitsch postures, but rather bringing a smile on one’s lips for their intrinsic, naive spontaneity.
The exhibition is a short emotional journey across our country where the road also becomes a stylistic element of the display.

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Paolo Simonazzi (Reggio Emilia, 1961) divides his life between his activities as a physician and photography, which he pursues with passion.

His latest project Icons of Liscio, was exhibited at The Other Art Fair, Turin in 2015.

In 2014 he exhibited his work Cose ritrovate during Fotografia Europea and in 2015 in Rimini.

The exhibition Bell’Italia was presented as a preview at Fotografia Europea 2011, to later tour Sydney and Melbourne (2012) and Tokyo (2014).

From 2006 to 2010 he worked on Mondo Piccolo. Tra la Via Emilia e il West is the title of the exhibition held at MAMbo, Bologna (2007); and later in other Italian cities and abroad, including the shows held in New York and San Francisco.

La casa degli angeli, was presented during the 1st edition of Fotografia Europea in 2006 and later at the 7th edition of FotoGrafia – Roma (2007).

Circo Bidone, is one of his first photographic projects.