news | Fotografia Wulz - exhibition opening
The exhibition "Fotografia Wulz. Trieste, the family, the atelier" opens on Saturday, December 14, 2024, at Magazzino delle Idee in Trieste
We are glad to announce the opening of the exhibition "Fotografia Wulz. Trieste, the family, the atelier", curated by Antonio Giusa and Federica Muzzarelli, which opens to the public on Saturday December 14 at Magazzino delle Idee in Trieste.
The exhibition, organised by the Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, in collaboration with Fondazione Alinari, presents a historical and critical selection of the archives of the Wulz Photographic Studio in Trieste (1868-1981), one of the most important archival complexes preserved today in the Alinari Archives, which have become public property thanks to the acquisition by the Region of Tuscany.
A photographic journey spanning over one hundred years, marked by both the events that placed the city of Trieste at the centre of the international scenario and the stages of its economic, demographic, social and cultural development. A long history seen through the privileged filter of the Wulz family, who for more than a century managed the Trieste photographic atelier of the same name.
The exhibition opens to the public from December 14, 2024 until April 27, 2025, and is part of the schedule of ‘GO!2025&Friends’, the programme of events connected to the official programme of ‘GO!2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia European Capital of Culture’.
This exhibition aims to offer new food for thought and propose a fresh perspective on the Wulz' photographic production, thanks to the selection made by the two curators within the Alinari archive and also to other items selected from public institutions, such as the Wolfsoniana in Genoa, the Museo Revoltella and the Civici Musei di Storia e Arte in Trieste, but also from private collections such as those of the Libreria antiquaria Drogheria 28 in Trieste and the Sergio Vatta Collection.
Through almost three hundred items on view, including photographs, negatives, vintage prints, documents and objects from the archive of the Wulz Photographic Studio, the exhibition offers an idea of the city of Trieste that is in some ways unprecedented, a city plunged into a crucial historical period in its evolution, the one that goes from the second half of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century and beyond.
The images created in the last period of the studio's activity, by sisters Wanda and Marion Wulz, can be read as an opportunity to concretely visualise the progressive changes in the identity of women, who in the first decades of the 20th century undertook one of the most important phases of their journey towards emancipation and independence.
The exhibition is supported by Calliope Arts Foundation, an organisation committed to safeguarding and promoting the cultural heritage of women. Calliope edits publications such as The Curators' Quaderno, which will see a new issue dedicated to the Wulz sisters printed for the occasion.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale.
A series of events connected to the exhibition will be announced soon.
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