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X-TALK #19 BY ANTONIO OTTOMANELLI

Wed, Dec 16, 2015    7pm

Down to Mothers Photography, Landscape and other Infrastructures of Revolution

by Antonio Ottomanelli, Architect / Photographer

Antonio Ottomanelli studied architecture in Milan and Lisbon. Until 2012 he was adjunct professor at the Polytechnic of Milan. In 2009 he founded IRA-C, public platform for research in the field of urban and social strategies. He is the chief curator of PLANAR, a center for contemporary photography based in Bari. He made photo features in contexts of crisis in Italy and abroad and he is currently engaged in the study and documentation of the condition of cities and territories in a state of conflict, with particular attention to the effects of the contemporary relationship between the protection strategies for a common security and the protection forms of private freedom. Over the past four years he has worked in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. His work has been both published and presented in architectural magazines and several international festivals such as Area, Abitare, AR, Domus,Internazionale and others such as Berlin 2010, ARIA project, Kreuzberg Pavillon; Perugia 2011-12, Festarch II and III edition. On may 2013, at the La Triennale Museum in Milan, Antonio presented his first italian solo exhibition “Collateral Landscape”. He is among the authors invited for the exhibition MONDITALIA at the XIV International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, directed by Rem Koolhaas. His video series Mapping Identity – Baghdad was shown for the first time in London at This Is Not a Gateway Festival on Nov 2014. He is curator of OIGO, International Observatory of Major Works, a documentary platform and a 4 years book series edited by Planar books containing the annual result of a photography campaign on the theme of “major works” that will cross the Mediterranean territory.