At the Baths of Caracalla in Rome the exhibition “Letizia Battaglia Senza Fine”. From May 27 to November 5, 2023. A selection of ninety-two large-format photographs aims to summarize fifty years of production by the famous Sicilian photographer.
Opens May 27, 2023 at thermal baths of caracalla to Rome the exhibition Endless Battle Joythat can be visited until November 5, 2023. A tribute to the Sicilian photographerhosted by Special Superintendence of Rome directed by Daniela Porro, organized by Electa in collaboration with theLetizia Battaglia Archive and the Falcone Foundation for the artsand edited by paolo falcone.
A selection of ninety two large format photographs intends to summarize fifty years of photographic work (1971-2020) by joy battle with iconic, lesser-known or unpublished images. The exhibition can be discovered through a visit to the monument: a narrative focus within the monumental complex natatiothe Baths of Caracalla are added to this exhibition two new environments where other photographic nuclei are exhibited.
“With this exhibition, the spaces for use by visitors are expanded,” he said. Mirella Serlorenzi, site administrator. “The Superintendency restored an original entrance to the western gymnasium and in the other room, with the tub, they identified the heating system and a fragment of geometric mosaic. The continuous restoration activity of the Baths of Caracalla is an opportunity for the study, research and discovery of this incredible monument”.
“Letizia Battaglia represents an exemplary union between civic commitment, social sentiment and artistic vision,” he explains. daniela porro, Special Superintendent of Rome. “On the thirtieth anniversary of the attacks on San Giovanni in Laterano and San Giorgio al Velabro, the Superintendency dedicates this exhibition to him, inaugurating two new rooms in the Baths of Caracalla for his use, to demonstrate how his images tell a story of an era entering fully into the history of photography”.
“This new project maintains the tradition of composing a unique, athematic, timeless and hierarchical work where iconic photographs, travel notes, everyday life build an open narrative to learn about and discover the multiple aspects of Letizia Battaglia”, explains the curator. “And the greatness of it. A constellation of photographs where love and pain, sweetness and drama, passion and commitment, tell moments in our history.”
The exhibition within the archaeological area has an installation that pays homage to another great artist: the architect Lina Bo Bardi. We owe her the exhibitors in tempered glass plates at the São Paulo Museum of Art, in Brazil. to hers famous cavalets from 1968 the exhibition structures are inspired by the photographs of Letizia Battaglia.
The initiative is part of the Caracalla 2023 Festival of the Teatro dell’Opera, so on July 25 and 28 and August 1 at the Teatro del Pórtico there will be meetings dedicated to Letizia Battaglia and the anniversary of the attack. On this occasion, the volume Letizia Battaglia Senza Fine will be presented, edited by Electa, dedicated to the Sicilian photographer.
“I am particularly excited,” he said. Francis Giambrone, superintendent of the Rome Opera House, “that the 2023 Caracalla Festival will host the Letizia Battaglia exhibition, who dedicated her entire life to civic and political commitment and to photography. Finding her works in a wonderful space like the Baths of Caracalla will be like paying a grateful and emotional tribute to her ”.
The exhibition also offers the opportunity to remember i Thirty years after the attacks on San Giovanni in Laterano and San Giorgio al Velabro in Romethat took place on the night of July 27-28, 1993. A wound in the heart of the historic city, which is linked to the photographer’s best-known images, those of war mafia of the seventies and eighties, one of the bloodiest, most moving and dramatic pages of the Sicilybut above all to the spirit of Letizia Battaglia who has always looked at photography as an instrument of intervention and social complaint.
Hours: Until September 30 from 9 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. Closed on Mondays. Open Friday June 2.
Exhibition photo: F. Caricchia for SSAPAB
Information about the exhibition
| The Baths of Caracalla host large photographs of Letizia Battaglia. And they open two new environments |
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