Marks in the street
(Appunti per strada)
With Mauro Baioni
Edited by Renato Corsini
Sala Santi Filippo and Giacomo, Brescia
From 5 to 20 March 2016
The Leica was the only one he used and as a photographer of street life he knew only two colours: black and white. Giulio Obici was an intellectual, a reporter, missed living in Venice and with his wide angles gave a different view of the surrounding landscapes. His still lives were artificial, the alleys of the city subdues poetry, people were intruders, some furniture in the background, as if it all was there just by chance. Renato Corsini says he had a deep culture and consistency and knew a camera like few others: he was the one that directed the exhibition Marks in the street… They are Obici’s photographs, the envoy of Paese Sera, the judicial chronicler and the “flâneur” with his Leica who was always longing for the lagoon where he was born in 1934… But his Madonnas painted on walls, children on bicycles, the stacked chairs in piazza Garibaldi, are only part of his work and of the exhibition. In the hall of Santi Filippo e Giacomo there are also Marks in the street and the colours of Mauro Baioni from Brescia and worldwide explorer (his reports from the Orient are famous). Someone who thinks like Man Ray: “everything that I can photograph I will not paint”. La Musa is the same for both, the street. The way of looking, taking photographs, feeling, is different. Obici in black and white and in Baioni’s work on the other hand there are all the different shades of colour.
Alessandra Troncana