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Sebastião Salgado

Glaciers.

Sebastião Salgado_dalla serie Ghiacciai (1995-2020)_fotografia_Courtesy l'artista

It is with sorrow that we learnt of the passing of Sebastião Salgado, who portrayed the world with a human, ethical and universal gaze.

We embrace Lélia Wanick Salgado, Studio Salgado and Contrasto.

Mart, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze, Trento Film Festival

In the international year dedicated to glaciers, from an idea of the Trento Film Festival, the Mart and the MUSE, together with the Festival itself, join forces and bring Sebastião Salgado’s new exhibition project to Trentino. Curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado, the exhibition project is produced in collaboration with Contrasto and Studio Salgado, and coordinated by Gabriele Lorenzoni (Mart) and Luca Scoz (MUSE).
Sebastião Salgado has designed for the MUSE a site-specific installation composed of 10 images that harmoniously integrates into the spaces of the ‘Great Void’ that architect Renzo Piano has imagined as the beating heart of the museum. All taken in Canada, in Kluane Park, the photographs exhibited in Trento form a single large nucleus.
The exhibition project consists of two complementary sections set up in two different museums whose fields, art and science, correspond to the themes of the exhibition. In addition to the site-specific installation at the MUSE, consisting of 10 images, the master has chosen for the MART in Rovereto over 50 large- and extra-large-format photographs of glaciers from all over the world.
One of the world’s best-known artists, photographer, activist and humanist, throughout his long career Sebastião Salgado has chronicled profound social, environmental and economic changes, giving voice to the planet’s last people. In recent years he has dedicated hundreds of shots to one of the most evocative natural environments and at the same time one of the most endangered ecosystems: that of the perennial snows.

A MUSE, Mart and Trento Film Festival Project. Art direction Lélia Wanick Salgado. Exhibition realised in collaboration with Contrasto and Studio Salgado. Curated by Gabriele Lorenzoni (Mart), Luca Scoz (MUSE).

Vedi tutte

In Rovereto and in Trento, Glaciers becomes a multi-location exhibition for which Salgado has selected a series of photos, most on show for the first time. This project is a unique chance for learning and understanding more about the poetry of this artist and, at the same time, it is a chance to address one of the most urgent issues of our time, that of climate change.

The exhibition is in fact part of a wider context: the United Nations General Assembly has in fact unanimously adopted the proposal to declare 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. Scientific monitoring since the 1960s has clearly revealed how, one decade after another, we are seeing a constant, dramatic reduction in volume and surface of the world’s glaciers, some of which are actually now extinct. The disappearance of the glaciers leads, primarily, to the cultural loss of priceless landscape of breath-taking majesty that have fascinating generations of travellers, artists and poets. In addition, the glaciers are fundamental elements for the regulation of the hydrological cycle and local and global climate, they are alive and advocates of life, and on them depends the supply of drinking water for two billion people and two thirds of international agricultural irrigation.

The exhibition project comprises two complementary sections organised in two different museums, whose separate focuses, art and science, correspond to the themes covered in the exhibition.

For the Mart in Rovereto Salgado has chosen over 50 photos in large and very large format of glaciers from all over the world, while for the MUSE he has designed a site-specific installation in the “Grande Vuoto (Big Void)” area that the architect Renzo Piano imagined as the beating heart of the museum. All taken in Canada, in Kluane Park, the photos on show in Trento make a single large nucleus. The show strengthens the commitment by the Trento Film Festival to defend the environment and natural ecosystems and enriches the content of the 73rd edition, in Trento from 25 April to 4 May.

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