Galleria Gottardo 1989-1999

"...Ten years have gone by since the first exhibition organised in the Spring of 1989 by the Galleria Gottardo. This was an important exhibition treating one of the most important international photographers of Swiss origin: Robert Frank. And an exhibition, moreover, which was also to have extensively defined one of the recurrent themes in the gallery's exhibition approach. In fact, photography has been one of the fundamental arguments of the exhibition history of the Galleria Gottardo. This volume wishes to bear witness to the activity accomplished during these ten years: remembering it by way of images, reconstructing its history-cum-story with the work carried out by the photographers, and by way of the declarations of gratitude on the part of some of the people who have been close to us during this period. On the one hand, therefore, one has the visual documentation of the exhibitions, their installation projects and the workshops organised by us and, on the other, the words by those people who have know how to understand and appreciate our intentions..." Text in Italian and English.