EMBASSADOR FOR
TRENTINO IN THE WORLD

 

The photographer, recently disappeared, in an anthology at Mart in Trento

 

If Faganello had been born American, he would be considered one of the most important photographers in the world. Maurizio Rebuzzini, director of Photographia, does not use vague words to announce his love for the photographer from Trentino, creator of a truly personal “eye” - expressed already in his first photographs in Naples and in Madrid during the 50's, and carried onto the portraits of the people in his Trentino, repeated until 2005 – made up by irony, compassion, participation, and capacity of illumminating ordinary lives. We can go over all his photographic works in: “Flavio Faganello. 1955 – 2005 the works”, an exhibition at Mart in Trento, Palazzo delle Albere, until August 27th 2006, organized by the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Municipality of the City of Verona, that can't simply be missed.
Already in 1986, Mart had dedicated to Flavio Faganello an importat anthologic exhibition: Histories of a history. Images from Trentino Alto-Adige concentrating on the perhaps most known side of the photographer's production, and presented alongside in the catalogue of the exhibition, a fundamental text of the analysis-essay by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle.
Twenty years later, this new tribute represents the definitive balance of his original production. The exhibition, created and organized by esaExpo and supervised by Roberto Festi, presents 180 photographs taken over fifty years of activity.
The original prints, which are all in black and white, are devided into 8 sections that trace chronologically the moments and the main subjects of the professional route of the photographer born in Terzolas, Val di Sole, in 1933. His early start, through to the mid-fifties, with his images of Naples and Spain, is followed by photographs taken both in Italy and abroad. The more beloved subjects, those linked to his land, Trentino Alto-Adige, which he analized and looked at very close for decades: the natural and the anthropical landscapes in their multiple variations; the sequences, stories through which he exalts his role as a narrator and, in the end, a group of ironic disenchanted photographs, in some cases bitter, that faithfully convey the author's spirit and sensitivity. The exhibition completes itself with a video, realized on purpose by the RAI branch in Trento, that presents interviews and conversations with the artist. The catalogue is edited by Roberto Festi, with a forward by Mario Rigoni Stern, and publishes the whole corpus of the images along with a serial of critical essays on the professional and human heritage of the photographer.

 

Stazione ferroviaria - Monaco di Baviera, 1964

 

Fundres, Val Punteria, 1972