Il flâneur detective
(The strolling detective)
Gallery Tre Oci, Venice
From January to March 2016
The exhibition is a collection of intense and punctual images which Obici took in the streets of the various places he visited… After all, the visual gymnastics of the author have been like one of the most complex cities in the world with static and miraculous rules and to create ever changing stories. Living amongst a mosaic of reflexions, one must have balance.
But yet, it was thanks to an unexpected game of reflexions that Obici discovered his love for photography. The useless locks on his children’s room that gave onto the Grand Canal, were closed over but there was a slit through which bits of the outside world were projected, upside down, onto the opposite wall. A child’s dark room, with a magic that overcame the war and hunger, the dread of the Nazis and the roundup of a family that was in the Resistance and orphan of a daily newspaper, Il Gazzettino, that was started by Obici’s great-grandfather in 1887 but taken over by the fascists in the Thirties…
Arianna Testino
