The MAN Museum of Art Province of Nuoro presents a large anthology dedicated to Lisetta Carmi (Genoa, 1924), one of the most significant protagonists of Italian photography after the Second World War.
The exhibition “Lisetta Carmi. Happy voices in the dark. Photographs in Sardinia 1962-1976″ is curated by Luigi Fassi and Giovanni Battista Martini and is part of the research conducted by MAN on the relationship between the great Italian photographers and Sardinia; an aesthetic dialogue that sees its previous interlocutor in last year’s retrospective on the work of Guido Guidi.
The exhibition brings to light an unpublished chapter of Lisetta Carmi’s photography, the one dedicated to Sardinia, bringing together hundreds of black and white shots taken between 1962 and 1976 during numerous and repeated stays on the island.
The exhibition is completed by a new series of color slides that portray the landscapes of the Sardinian hinterland, with woods, rivers and lakes captured in their most arcane and evocative dimension.
Two sections of the exhibition are then dedicated to the de series The Transvestites (1965-1971) and to the workers of Genoa – port (1964).
The first is the outcome of the years of association dedicated by Lisetta Carmi to the transvestite community of Genoa, relegated to the margins of society, sharing with empathy a daily life that contrasts social marginalization with moments of life in common.
The second is the result of a 1964 photo shoot on workers in the port of the Ligurian capital, created with the aim of denouncing the very harsh working conditions.
The exhibition is accompanied by a large monographic catalog published by Marsilio and accompanied by critical essays by Etienne Bernard, Nicoletta Leonardi, Giovanni Battista Martini and Luigi Fassi .
From Tuesday 19 January 2021 to Sunday 20 June 2021, the MAN of Nuoro also presents the exhibition project Gold and verdigris , a selection of works taken from the museum’s permanent collection.