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Toscani chez Mazzoleni

2 November 2022 - 14 January 2023

The Mazzoleni Gallery in Turin will host the final stage of the series of exhibitions celebrating Oliviero Toscani's 80th birthday.

Oliviero Toscani's body of work is visionary for provocation and boundary crossing against racism, inequality and abuse.

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Düsseldorf, 28 October 2022: Turin's Mazzoleni Gallery will host the third and final stage of the exhibition series celebrating Oliviero Toscani's 80th birthday. The legendary photographer has curated his own exhibition and will show a selection of his best-known images, photographs from the Grande Cretto work by Alberto Burri in Gibellina to Razza Umana, the largest existing archive of human morphological differences.

Oliviero Toscani is internationally known as the creative force behind the world's most famous brands, creator of images that have changed the history of communication. His campaigns have brought the issue of social responsibility into the mainstream. Toscani tackled racism, inequality and abuse with provocation and boundary crossing. These include the Jesus Jeans poster 'Who Loves Me Follow Me', the 'Kiss between Priest and Nun' from 1992 and the poster 'Three Hearts White / Black / Yellow' from 1996.

A walk through the exhibition: Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri in Gibellina

A separate section at Mazzoleni will focus on the series Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri in Gibellina, which Toscani photographed for the Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye project. It is a collection of photo albums created by Maison Louis Vuitton with ten of the world's most famous photographers. Each of them was invited to photograph a city of their choice for a series dedicated to travel. Toscani chose Gibellina, the Sicilian town destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake. Alberto Burri poured hundreds of tons of cement on the city's rubble in 1981, creating one of the most important works of European Land Art. These photographs were printed on monumental concrete panels and interact with some of Alberto Burri's cretti.

Razza Umana - over 10,000 portraits

In the ten-year Razza Umana project, Oliviero Toscani travelled the world photographing people to create the largest existing archive of humanity's morphological differences, with over 10,000 portraits.

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Düsseldorf, 28. Oktober 2022: Die Turiner Mazzoleni Galerie wird die dritte und letzte Etappe der Ausstellungsreihe zum 80. Geburtstag von Oliviero Toscani ausrichten. Der legendäre Fotograf hat seine Ausstellung selbst kuratiert und zeigt eine Auswahl seiner bekanntesten Bildern, Fotografien des Werks Grande Cretto von Alberto Burri in Gibellina bis hin zu Razza Umana, dem größten existierende Archiv der morphologischen Unterschiede der Menschheit.

Oliviero Toscani ist international bekannt als die kreative Kraft hinter den berühmtesten Marken der Welt, Schöpfer von Bilder, die die Geschichte der Kommunikation verändert haben. Seine Kampagnen haben das Thema der sozialen Verantwortung in den Mainstream gebracht. Toscani ging mit Provokation und Grenzüberschreitung gegen Rassismus, Ungleichheit und Missbrauch vor. Dazu gehören das Jesus-Jeans-Plakat "Who Loves Me Follow Me", der "Kuss zwischen Priester und Nonne' von 1992 und das Plakat 'Three Hearts White / Black / Yellow' von 1996.

Ein Gang durch die Ausstellung: Grande Cretto von Alberto Burri in Gibellina

Ein eigener Bereich bei Mazzoleni wird sich auf die Serie Grande Cretto von Alberto Burri in Gibellina konzentrieren, die Toscani für das Projekt "Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye" fotografiert hat. Es handelt sich um eine Sammlung von Fotoalben, die von der Maison Louis Vuitton mit zehn der berühmtesten Fotografen der Welt erstellt wurde. Jeder von ihnen wurde eingeladen, eine Stadt seiner Wahl für eine dem Reisen gewidmete Serie zu fotografieren. Toscani wählte Gibellina, die sizilianische Stadt, die 1968 durch das Erdbeben in Belice zerstört wurde. Alberto Burri schüttete 1981 Hunderte von Tonnen Zement auf die Trümmer der Stadt und schuf damit eines der wichtigsten Werke der europäischen Land Art. Diese Aufnahmen wurden auf monumentale Betonplatten gedruckt und interagieren mit einigen Cretti von Alberto Burri.

Razza Umana - über 10.000 Porträts

Beim zehnjährigen Projekt Razza Umana ist Oliviero Toscani durch die ganze Welt gereist, um Menschen zu fotografieren und so das größte existierende Archiv der morphologischen Unterschiede der Menschheit mit über 10.000 Porträts zu schaffen.

A walk through the exhibition at Mazzoleni

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Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

A separate section at Mazzoleni will focus on the series Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri in Gibellina, which Toscani photographed for the Louis Vuitton Fashion Eye project.

Grande Cretto by Alberto Burri in Gibellina

Oliviero Toscani - Untitled - 1992 - Courtesy the Artist - Mazzoleni- London - Torino

Biography Oliviero Toscani

Toscani was one of the founding professors of the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, he taught visual communication at various universities and wrote books on communication.

Awards:

He won the Golden Lion at the Cannes Film Festival four times, the Grand Prix d'Affichage twice, the UNESCO Grand Prix, the Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Hero Award and several Art Directors Club awards. The Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino awarded him the Il Sogno di Piero prize. He received the title of Honorary Academician of the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and Academician of Merit of the Academy of Perugia. In 2021 he received the Lorenzo il Magnifico Career Award of the XIII Florence Biennale. In 2017, he received honorary doctorates from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brescia and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, and in 2018 from the Hochschule der Künste in Zurich. Oliviero Toscani is an honorary member of the Leonardo Committee

and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Mazzoleni:

Mazzoleni was founded in Turin in 1986 by Giovanni and Anna Pia Mazzoleni as an evolution of their private collection, which they had begun in the 1950s. Since 2014, Mazzoleni has also had a gallery in Mayfair.

Mazzoleni participates in art fairs including Art Basel (Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong), Frieze Masters (London and Seoul), TEFAF (Maastricht and New York) and FIAC (Paris).

Toscani chez Mazzoleni

Mazzoleni, Turin

2 November 2022 - 14 January 2023

Address: Mazzoleni, Piazza Solferino, 2 - 10121 Turin

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Biografie Oliviero Toscani

Toscani war einer der Gründungsprofessoren der Akademie für Architektur in Mendrisio, er lehrte visuelle Kommunikation an verschiedenen Universitäten und schrieb Bücher über Kommunikation. Er gewann viermal den Goldenen Löwen bei den Filmfestspielen von Cannes, zweimal den Grand Prix d’Affichage, den Grand Prix d'Affichage, den UNESCO Grand Prix, den Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Hero Award und mehrere Auszeichnungen des Art Directors Club. Die Akademie der Schönen Künste von Urbino verlieh ihm den Preis Il Sogno di Piero. Er erhielt den Titel eines Ehrenakademikers der Akademie der Schönen Künste in Florenz und den eines Verdienstakademikers der Akademie von Perugia. 2021 erhielt er den Lorenzo il Magnifico Career Award der XIII. Biennale von Florenz. Im Jahr 2017 erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde der Akademie der Schönen Künste von Brescia und der Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, und 2018 von der Hochschule der Künste in Zürich. Oliviero Toscani ist Ehrenmitglied des Leonardo-Komitees

und der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste.

Mazzoleni

Mazzoleni wurde 1986 in Turin von Giovanni und Anna Pia Mazzoleni als Weiterentwicklung ihrer Privatsammlung gegründet, die sie in den 1950er Jahren begonnen hatten. Seit 2014 hat Mazzoleni auch eine Galerie in Mayfair.

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