FOSCO MARAINI. PHOTOGRAPHS BY A CITLUVIT is the first solo exhibition dedicated to Maraini in the UK, with 70 photographic prints providing an overview of this extraordinary Italian intellectual, curated by Lara Veroner and Sandra Romito.
From 22 January to 27 March at the Italian Cultural Institute, London. Free entry. No booking is required.
Ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic. Fosco Maraini travelled extensively in Europe, Middle East and Asia from the late 1920s onwards, studying several cultures and populations, the Ama and Ainu communities in Japan for instance, participating in remarkable mountain expeditions, such as the Karakoram excursion of the 1950s, and documenting his life and works through the medium of photography.
This exhibition will include portraits of the people Maraini met and the communities he studied alongside the photographs of places he visited in his countless travels. As an enthusiastic mountaineer and climber, a section of the show is dedicated to the mountains and their landscape. All the pictures have the original worldview of a Citluvit, which means Cittadino della Luna in Visita d’Istruzione sulla Terra (Citizen of the Moon on a Study Visit to Earth), as Maraini liked to describe himself. This show is a celebration of Maraini’s peculiar representation of reality through tangible and abstract photographic shoots.
A project organised and supported by ICI London. Special thanks to Fondazione Alinari and Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux. An exhibition curated by Lara Veroner and Sandra Romito
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