After the Last Image. Seeing invisible
Friday 10 November 2023, 6pm
Talk with Massimo Canevacci, Elisabetta Masala and Luca Spano
Presentation of the publication Luca Spano. After the Last Image edited by Elisabetta Masala, published by Mousse Publishing
Following Below the Surface , musical performance by Giacomo Salis, percussionist + Stefano Manconi, electronic musician
The talk After the Last Image. Seeing invisible presents to the public for the first time the multiple semantic stratifications that compose it After the Last Image by the artist Luca Spano. The project investigates the relationship between the visible and the invisible and, in particular, that gray area between the two: the last known point, a border area whose mystery invites discovery.
During the talk the artist and the curator Elisabetta Masala will talk about the genesis of the project, its development and its outcomes. In dialogue with the anthropologist Massimo Canevacci we will explore the biological and technological limits of seeing, as well as the role of sight and contemporary photography in the process of understanding the world.
The publication will be presented for the occasion Luca Spano. After the Last Image edited by Elisabetta Masala, published by Mousse Publishing . The work crosses different disciplines thanks to a complex mosaic of heterogeneous stimuli which, starting from art history and visual studies, intersects anthropology, physics and biological sciences. The multiple nuances that make up After the Last Image They thus push us to broaden our perspectives by stimulating new questions and new visions. The artist encourages us to reflect with greater awareness on the complexity of perceptive phenomena and on the ambiguities that shape our world.
Following Below the Surface , the musical performance created for the occasion by the percussionist Giacomo Salis and the electronic musician Stefano Manconi .
The initiative is organized within the project After the Last Image by Luca Spano, winner of Photography Strategy 2022 , call promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
Luca Spano. After the Last Image, Mousse Publishing
Elisabetta Masala, curator of After the Last Image
Giangavino Pazzola, curator of CAMERA Torino
Anna Caterina Dalmasso, professor of media archeology at the University of Milan
Massimo Canevacci, professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Luca Spano and Giovanna Corraine, a woman blind from birth
Franziska Perske and Maria Dienerowitz, Deutsches Optisches Museum in Jena
Ute Dercks, deputy head of the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Marco Santangelo, geographer and professor of the Inter-University Department of Territorial Sciences, Projects and Policies (DIST) of the Polytechnic of Turin
Luca Spano
Luca Spano (1982, IT) is a multidisciplinary artist. He trained between Europe and the United States, with a degree in Communication Sciences at Sapienza University in Rome, an MA in photography at the London College of Communication in London and an MFA in visual arts at Cornell University in Ithaca (US). His work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and festivals such as: Triennale di Milano, MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome), BredaPhoto Festival (NL), Malta Festival (PL), Saavy Contemporary in Berlin (DE), Luis Adelantado Gallery (ES), Paolo Erbetta Gallery (IT), Caelum Gallery in New York, Institute of Italian Culture in Paris, Institute of Italian Culture in Hamburg and the Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute.
Massimo Canevacci
Massimo Canevacci is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Since 1984 he has been invited every year to teach as a visiting professor in various Brazilian universities. Among his publications: Meta-fetishism , Manifesto Libri, Rome 2022; The dust line , Meltemi, Milan 2017; Indigenous amazement , Sargasso Sea, Naples 2023.
Stefano Manconi he is a musician and sound artist, graduated in Electronic Music at the Cagliari Conservatory and trained at JAMU (CZ). He produces music under the alias “stziopa”, designs instruments for Bastl Instruments and collaborates with various musical and contemporary art entities.
Giacomo Salis he is a drummer, percussionist and timbre researcher. His research focuses attention on sound, silence and noise, through the use of extensive techniques and prepared sets. He played among others with John Butcher, Luca Venitucci, Martin Mayes, Gabriele Mitelli.
