Firenze, 13 Nov. (askanews) – An exhibition by Armin Linke which offers a critical reading of Florence through the artist’s photographs placed in dialogue with historical and documentary images of the Photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, hosted at Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai in the Florentine capital.
“Armin Linke: The City as Archive. Florence” is a project that investigates the theme of archives as an element of contemporary photography. And the artist himself introduced us to the exhibition: “The exhibition – Linke explained to us – was born in a dialogue with Hannah Baader and Costanza Caraffa. Photography becomes an excuse for a dialogue between us, but in a certain sense photography is not a point of arrival, but a starting point to ask questions, to explore the city, to meet the people who manage various archives, to learn more about their knowledge, their methods, to also look at the materiality of these archives: what are the objects that are collected, what are the graphics, the metadata that are linked to these objects and also the images that reproduce them”.
The exhibition, which like all Linke’s projects, also has a strong conceptual characteristic, invites us to look at Florence as a laboratory for the production, stratification and transformation of knowledge, science and art. And the Italian-German artist’s images have a strength that arises from their ability to be both documentary and visionary, in many cases at the same time.
The exhibition project is also connected to the Lo scuola dell’arte festival, with the presentation of a video work dedicated to the story of “The City as Archive”.
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