A group united, as Marina Miraglia has written, by the “premise of breaking down the boundaries between the arts and the various contemporary media of communication,” and at the time made up of Gerardo Regnani, another member who later left the association and Fortunato (called Claudio) Isgrò (president), Claudio Cravero (vice president), Concetta Occhipinti and Pierpaolo Preziosi (directors).
The collection’s first “home,” from October 29, 1998, was the Spazio FINE: an exhibition space and, until 2002, also a free venue for cultural meetings and exchanges (between authors, critics, experts, institutions and the public) located in the former warehouses of the Docks Dora in Turin.
And so, with the intention of promoting an area of free exchange, the nonprofit-making activities of the association have largely been focused on presenting new authors (beginners and up-and-coming talents, in particular) on the Italian and international scene. Over the years the programming of the Spazio FINE has seen a series of initiatives: various exhibitions, the “Tra parole e immagini” events (meetings with art critics, gallery owners, historians of photography, artists and publishers) and occasions like “Incontri & Fotografia” (discussions of portfolios by critics and gallery owners). Through cultural exchanges FINE has also collaborated with a number of other associations and institutions, both public and private, in Italy and in Europe. The trace and “emblem” of this journey has been the creation of a special collection of works that, at the moment, is made up of donations by over a hundred photographers from various parts of the world.
The collection is in addition a “testimony” to another fundamental value of the FINE cultural association, its nonprofit-making basis. An ideal attained, in line with developments in other fields of social work, through the promotion of occasions of free and democratic aggregation and exchange conceived from a perspective of complementarity rather than antagonism. A sharing aimed at favoring civil growth through the kind of “being together” that ought always to be at the base of any constructive form of association.
Private property, entrusted to the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Contents 198 photographic works (+ 3 lithographies)
Dating ok works 1974 – early 2000s
Authors Brandy Eve Allen, Giuseppe Anfossi, Simone Bacci, Maura Banfo, Alessia Barucchi, Aldo Basili, Gabriele Basilico, Claude Belime, Jacopo Benassi, Luca Bernardelli, Bruna Biamino, Jean-Louis Bigou, Pierre Boè, Carmelo Bongiorno, Davide Bramante, Massimo Cairo, Alessandro Cane, Claudine Capdeville, Monica Carocci, Davide Casali, Pierangelo Cavanna, Fabienne Charles, Dario Colombo, Jean Yves Corre, Claudio Cravero, Mario Cresci, Anna Cretella, Orly Dahan, Willy Darko, Donato De Lisi, Massimo De Pasquale, Alessandro Dominici, Danilo Donzelli, Maria Erovereti, Maks Flandrina, Rocco Formini, Vittore Fossati, Mario Giacomelli, Helen Giovanello, Dorothy Goizet, Zsuzsanna Harmathy, Claudio Isgrò, Bernard Lanteri, Eric Le Vergè, Paolo Leonardo, Sabine Macher, Pierluigi Manzone, Franco Mapelli, Luigi Marcello, Céline Martinez, Emanuele Martino, Anne Montaut, Florence Mouraux, Bruno Nardini, Nicoletta Nicosia, Francesco Nonino, Irina Novarese, Pierre Olingue, Mauro Pelissetti, Pier Paolo Preziosi, Helen Quintilla, Francesco Radino, Mauro Raffini, Paolo Ranzani, Turi Rapisarda, Rapisarda – Bramante, Gerardo Regnani, Silvia Reichenbach, Sylvie Romieu, William Ropp, Alain Sagaert, Luca Saini, Roberto Salbitani, Pino Scavo, Jana Sebestova, Eric Sinatora, Ada Sola, Michi Suzuki, Giancarlo Tovo, Trialdi & C., Cristina Zamagni
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