Franco Fontana in Albania

National Historical Museum, Tirana.

7 October – 5 November 2017

The exhibition, curated by the Italian artist himself, comes to Tirana after being shown in Split, Zagreb, Belgrade, Cetinje and Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. The exhibition is a project of the Centre for Research and Archiving of Photography, a highly important institution of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, based in Spilimbergo, Italy.

Franco Fontana was born in Modena in 1933 and is considered among the most important exponents of Italian photography and culture. His style, from the 1970s onward, is distinguished by compositional essentiality, based on fields of colour and almost perfect geometric figures. Fontana has exhibited all over the world, with over 400 solo exhibitions at galleries and museums such as the Guggenheim New York, the Georges Pompidou Paris, and exhibitions in Switzerland, Italy, Japan, etc. He is the author of over 40 photography books. He comes to Albania with a fantastic exhibition for the Albanian public and artists, thanks to the contribution of the Italian Institute of Culture in Tirana, as a continuation of the project on important Italian Photography in Albania. Not to be missed.

Photography by Eno Gace. Photo copyright: EJAlbum & IIC Tirana