ISO600 PORTFOLIO 2021 - BOULES DE NEIGE Franco Mammana
Franco Mammana, vincitore del Paoletti Talent Prize 2020
Presenta il suo Portfolio BOULES DE NEIGE
Franco Mammana, winner of the Paoletti Talent Prize 2020
Present his Portfolio BOULES DE NEIGE
“BOULES DE NEIGE”
Ricordi indelebili di semplici oggetti legati ad una sfumata adolescenza si materializzano nello scenario ovattato che la fragile trasparenza di una piccola sfera di vetro racchiude e protegge.
Un veliero, un orsetto, un piccolo aeroplano, un cavallino di legno tornano illusoriamente in vita grazie ad un semplice gesto -un labile movimento di polso - che riproduce la magia artificiale di una improbabile nevicata: ma tanto basta, comunque, a spingerci nell’abbandono di un abbraccio visionario fra confortevoli atmosfere fantastiche.
Il transfer fotografico, grazie alla complicità della seducente configurazione della pellicola istantanea, cristallizza in modo quasi indelebile attimi di memoria che l’azione reale fa svanire in un baleno.
Ma il sogno continua nella fugacità di uno sguardo.
"BOULES DE NEIGE"
Indelible memories of simple objects linked to a nuanced adolescence materialize in the muffled scenario that the fragile transparency of a small glass sphere encloses and protects.
A sailing ship, a teddy bear, a small airplane, a wooden horse come back to life illusory thanks to a simple gesture - a faint flick of the wrist - which reproduces the artificial magic of an unlikely snowfall: but that's enough, however, to push us into the abandonment of a visionary embrace of comfort in fantastic atmospheres.
The photographic transfer, thanks to the complicity of the seductive configuration of the instant film, almost indelibly crystallizes moments of memory that the real action makes vanish in a flash.
But the dream continues in the fleetingness of a glance.
Nato nel 1959 a Noto, cittadina barocca della Sicilia Orientale, vive e lavora a Bergamo come Professional Dirigente Movimento presso RFI – Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane.
Fotografo autodidatta, ha sviluppato la propria attività verso il reportage, la fotografia di viaggio, d’architettura e di paesaggio, collaborando con alcune delle più importanti testate del settore e affermandosi in numerosi concorsi fotografici.
Grande appassionato di aquiloni, frequenta da diversi decenni alcuni fra i maggiori festival internazionali realizzando immagini spettacolari e insolite, pubblicandole su riviste e giornali nazionali e internazionali ed esponendo le proprie opere in numerose mostre in Italia e all’Estero.
Ha realizzato le fotografie del libro “Via Appia Antica” (Arsenale Editrice, 2003) e ha collaborato con lo scultore giapponese Susumu Shingu, pubblicando molte immagini sulla sua monografia, dopo aver partecipato prima al progetto “Wind Caravan” in Mongolia e in Brasile e successivamente allo spettacolo teatrale “Toss of a dice” del coreografo cecoslovacco Jiri Kilyan per la cui scenografia Shingu ha realizzato una grande scultura mobile.
Recentemente ha indirizzato il proprio interesse al mondo della fotografia istantanea a sviluppo immediato (Polaroid, Impossible Project, Fujifilm) aderendo a diversi network che ne promuovono la diffusione e prendendo parte a esposizioni ea pubblicazioni editoriali collettive.
Born in 1959 in Sicily, Franco Mammana first became interested in photography in 1980 working as photographer Maurizio Buscarino’s assistant in the theatre in Bergamo, Northern Italy. As a self-taught photographer, he focussed his activity on social documentary, landscape, architecture and travel, publishing his photographic reports on several magazines and newspapers.
In 1985 he received a grant to study photo-journalism and went on to have several works published. In the late 80’s his experience in landscape and architectural photography led him to produce a series of images of his birthplace in Noto in Sicily, which were printed as postcards. Following this a further series was based in his home town, Bergamo, and he began to turn his attention towards this type of commercial production.
His great and continuing passion for kites directed him towards the major international kite festivals taking spectacular and unusual images and showing his works in a lot of solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He held his first solo exhibition in 1994 in Cervia, Italy, a small town on the Adriatic coast which is known worldwide as one of the most important centre for kites, selling all the photos.
In 2001 he takes part in the WIND CARAVAN PROJECT by the japanesesculptur Susumu Shingu following him to Mongolia and Brasil. Some years later, in 2005, his photos of that experience and those ones of a mobile sculpture used in “Toss of a dice” stage, performance by the czechoslovakian choreographer Jiri Kylian, were published in the Shingu’s Monography. In 2003 he shoots the pictures published on the book “VIA APPIA ANTICA” (ArsenaleEditrice), historical and archeologic route from Rome to Brindisi.
Since 2007 he comes up to Polaroid world, taking part in several networks and to collective exhibitions to promote its survival and rebirth of instant photography.
ISO600 2023 is an event conceived and curated by Alan Marcheselli in collaboration with Galleria Paoletti and Nital
