Joel Mayerowitz | © Galleria Maggiore g.a.m.
In Venice in the amazing Palazzo Franchetti, headquarter of ACP - Art Capital Partners Palazzo Franchetti, Maggiore g.a.m. is happy to announce the opening of its first Project Room, a bright and white space located on the Second Noble Floor, close by the Morandi's Library of ACP - Palazzo Franchetti. The Maggiore g.a.m. Project Room is a new gallery venue where some exhibitions will take place during the year in the prestigious environment of Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal.
The first exhibition is dedicated to Joel Meyerowitz, the world-renowned street-photographer which has dedicated a series of works studying the light in Giorgio Morandi's studio in Italy. As Amanda Renshaw, curator of the exhibition, wrote: «These photographs are a form of investigation, an analysis, if you will, of the art of perception and interpretation. Instead of arranging the objects in different combinations, Meyerowitz chose to take them one at a time, holding them in his hands, placing them on Morandi's table and gently turning them until the light seemed right. His photographs document the individuality of each humble object - simple sentinels placed on an annotated surface. He imbues each one with a physical presence and shy confidence of its own. In so doing, he also provides us with the tools to understand and appreciate how Morandi depicted the very same objects, and how, with the introduction of his own sense of light, composition, and scale (which is most often determined by shadow), he transformed them into something elusive, intangible, and timeless».
Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938) is a world-renowned street-photographer. He was trained as a painter, but an afternoon spent with Robert Frank in the early 1960s changed his destiny. In the years that followed, Meyerowitz dedicated himself to his new medium and in 1963 John Szarkowski, Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art selected his work to be included in the seminal exhibition ThePhotographer'sEye. In the decades that followed he became a pioneer of colour photography, instrumental in changing the art world's attitude to it being accepted as an art form. His photographs of the streets of New York and other American cities are iconic in the history of photography. He is internationally regarded as one of the most important and influential street photographers and is the co-author of Bystander, the standard work on the genre.
Meyerowitz has had numerous solo exhibitions in major museums all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (1968), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1978), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1981), Brooklyn Museum, NY (1986), Art Forum Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1991), The Art Institute of Chicago (1994), Biennale di Venezia (2002), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2006), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2013), Kunsthaus, Vienna (2015), C/O Berlin (2017). He has published over 40 books.
Morandi's Objects have been shown at the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York and the Fundacion Mapfre in Madrid, among other places.