© Fabrizio Uliana 20200717 JeanPaul I invite you to the inauguration of the photo exhibition PHOTOGRAPHIC CIRCLE THE GONDOLA VENICE Error/Wander Thursday 18. 04. 2024 – 18.00 San Dona di Piave (Venice) Piazza Indipendenza, 13 Space Exhibitions Battistella I won’t be there! But two of my images are on display “ERROR, TO ERR” “Blind to guilt, fate can be ruthless with the smallest distractions” J.L. Borges I did right, did I do right? This question torments us every day, repeatedly, and the possibility of a “mistake” often conditions our action. However, when technology is involved, it is often a relief: […]
by Fabrizio Uliana with texts by: Carlo Chiapponi, photographer Frédéric Cossutta, philosopher Dominique Maingueneau, linguist After the high waters that flooded Venice on November 17, 2019, I started taking photos of this magical place, far from any aesthetic cliché and the harmonious spectacle of its representations, to provoke a reflection on its future. Using just a smartphone, I tried to push its limits, where the shooting algorithms make the photos enigmatic, dreamlike, ironic, dynamic, tending to disorient, to provoke worry and confusion: to “see things as they do not exist”. Indeed, with a dynamic, circular and semi-circular movement, like a […]
Vernissage October 6, 2023, at 6:30 PM I am pleased to announce my participation in the exhibitionRETHINKING THE LANDSCAPE vs RETHINKING IDENTITY at the Bugno Art Gallery Campo San Fantin, San Marco 1997, Venice presented by Oculus Photo Festival https://oculusfotofestival.com in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Bugno Art Gallery, Circolo Fotografico la Gondola, and Emop Dinard, France © Fabrizio Uliana, 2023 Barite paper print Hahnemuhle 30 cm x 30 cm.
The following are thoughts by Nino Migliori taken from an interview conducted on June 20, 2016, by Enrico Ratto and published by Maledetti Fotografi at www.maledettifotografi.it: “Each of us interprets reality through our own culture, which is, as I often like to quote, what remains when everything else is forgotten.” “… one of my references is Lucretius and his ‘De rerum natura,’ which led me to create my first work on this theme, ‘Herbarium,’ in 1974. It deals with beauty and its inexorable change until dissolution, but it maintains its charm and pleasantness even in the moment of death.” “For […]
2021 Venetian metamorphosis waves of stone see pictures
It is always a pleasure to see your own image on the cover of a book that will be translated into English and other languages. According to the author of the text, Giuseppe Giliberti, the photograph is beautiful and perfectly suited to the content of the book: it suggests tradition, dynamism, crisis, danger. With joy I share this little news. Where sì is heard: Notes on Italian Cultural Identity by Giuseppe Giliberti Edizioni Intra, Pesaro, 2021. With an Introduction by Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg “The peoples who dwell in the beautiful land where sì is heard”. This is how Dante Alighieri […]
Comunicato Stampa La Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in collaborazione con il Circolo Fotografico La Gondola presenta la mostra collettiva Codice sorgente 1948/2018 Dal 15 febbraio 2019 al 22 marzo 2019 Venezia, Palazzetto Tito, Dorsoduro n. 2826. Inaugurazione venerdì 15 febbraio 2019 ore 18.00 La mostra Codice Sorgente 1948/2018 celebra i settant’anni del Circolo Fotografico La Gondola, fondato a Venezia, nel 1948, da Paolo Monti, Gino Bolognini, Luciano Scattola e Giorgio Bresciani. Per questa importante ricorrenza, grazie alla collaborazione della Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, presso la sede di Palazzetto Tito è stata realizzata questa importante ed originale esposizione. Sono state scelte, traendole […]
Fondamenta della Croce, 30133 Venezia-Giudecca Ten thousand postcards,produced by the photo club The Gondola, deal with the crowds that flood and occupy the city which has a deep impact on the Venetians’ daily life and overwhelms the locals. Postcards, distributed throughout the Giudecca island between 8 and 10 Sept. 2017, are available to anyone to be shipped around the world. http://festivaldelleartigiudecca.org www.cflagondola.it
WHAT A SURPRISE! Dinard (France), Thursday 3 August 2017 We are invited by some old friends living in Dinard to drink a glass together. We go to the seat of the ADUPP (a harbour association) where the “glass among friends” is celebrated. Suddenly the President of the Association takes the microphone, joins and shows me the daily on whose front page features a photograph of me, taken a few years ago during a trip with a traditional boat of the zone. WHAT A SURPRISE! Then I’m presented 2000 vintage bottle of Champagne!!!! A few days later, an article on the Ouest-France newspaper (800,000 […]
9 to 11 September 2016 Festival delle Arti Giudecca – Sacca Fisola Vernissage and presentation tour : 9 September, 18:00 CZ95: the Multimedia Centre at the Giudecca-Venice Taking photos of Venice easy: every photographer is always fascinated by the sublime which is the easiest way for a captivating picture. On the contrary it is hard to scratch the coat of beauty of this town and bring ti light a differente Venice around us. But now this group of photographers full of a deep Venetian feeling, has decided to share all that lots of people try not to see for money’s […]
“Animalia” Natural History Museum of Venice 13 July-21 August 2016 curated by the photography club “La Gondola” Opening hours: from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Opening: 6 p.m. on invitation until all available seats are taken The exhibition, organized by the Venice-based photographic circle “La Gondola”, deals with the relationship between man and animal, highlighting the ways in which the human being relates to animality. It offers a view which aims to evince the changes affecting our perception of the animal being perceived in the light of a speech that, on the ethical, philosophical and legal levels, is changing the […]