January 30, 2018
The National Gallery of Slovenia has a new exhibition opening today and running until March 31, 2018, entitled NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960.
Tranquillo Casiraghi. People of the Torretta, 1950s. Sesto San Giovanni, Milan. © Eredi Tranquillo Casiraghi
Perhaps best known for its contributions to cinema, as seen in works such as Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Rome, Open City (1945), Italian neorealism (neorealismo is the Italian), as the name suggests, focused on the everyday lives of the working class after the Second World War.
Fulvio Roiter. Solfatara, 1953, Sicily. © Eredi Fulvio Roiter
The show at the National Gallery, put on in collaboration with the Galerija Fotografija,, will present almost three hundred prints along with the original contexts in which the images were seen, magazines, photo-books and the like. It also places the photography of this era in a broader setting, showing its links with neorealist literature and cinema.
Nino Migliori. People of Emilia, 1959, Emilia-Romagna. © Fondazione Nino Migliori
While the main exhibition is at the National Gallery, a partner show runs at the Galerija Fotografija, Nino Migliori, The Fifties, which presents more than two hundred photographs from this photographer, such as the image shown above
The Nino Migliori show is open Mon–Fri, 10:00–19:00, Saturdays 10:00–14:00, while the National Gallery is closed Mondays, open Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, and Thursdays until 20:00. Single, family, group and reduced price tickets are available.
The National Gallery is at Puharjeva ulica 9, 1000 Ljubljana, not far from Tivoli Park.
The Galerija Fotografija is at Levstikov trg 7, 1000 Ljubljana, in the Old Town.
