carlo mollino - arabeschi at castello di rivoli, turin, italy

carlo mollino - arabeschi at castello di rivoli, turin, italy..........................................................................................................................

carlo mollino - arabeschi

castello di rivoli, turin, italy
20 september 2006 - 7 january 2007
curated by fulvio and napoleone ferrari
http://www.castellodirivoli.org

among the many fields mollino was interested in
was photography.
the exhibition shows a broad selection of over
two hundred works from international collections
and from ‘museo casa mollino’.
photographic material that has never been shown
before.
the exhibition is divided into five main sections:
photomontages of architectural items and interiors,
black and white photography of a surrealist nature,
ski photography - which was mainly made for
carlo mollino’s book on skiing techniques -
photography from the second half of the 1960s and,
his polaroid shots of female portraits that he made
from the 1960s up to the time of his death.
over two thousand of these erotic polaroids,
taken for mollino's private use, were discovered
by his executors after mollino’s death.
he obsessively controlled the quality of these polaroid
images with attention to detail. he made his models look
even more perfect by using retouching techniques.
this is what his voyeuristic fantasies raise above
‘routine’ amateur pornography.
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