Ballo&Ballo
£30.00
from 06.14.2024 to 11.03.2024
From 14 June to 3 November 2024, the Castello Sforzesco presents the exhibition Ballo&Ballo. Photography and design in Milan, 1956-2005 , produced by the Municipality of Milan – Culture, Castello Sforzesco and Silvana Editoriale and supported by Strategia 2023.
The idea for an exhibition was born in 2022, when Marirosa Toscani Ballo donated the archive of the Ballo+Ballo Studio to the Civic Photographic Archive of the Municipality of Milan, the result of a lifetime of work with her husband Aldo Ballo. In 2023, the Civic Photographic Archive participated in the Strategia Fotografia Call promoted by the MIC with a project to enhance the Archive, which was the winner, and thus began the study of the exhibition project and the catalogue.
The exhibition features over a hundred photographs from the Ballo+Ballo studio , some design objects on loan from the ADI Design Museum and the Applied Art Collections of the Castello Sforzesco, and some original objects that belonged to the two photographers , as well as period magazines with which the Ballos collaborated and volumes containing their photographs.
Thanks to the video installations by Studio Azzurro, which dialogue with the photos and objects on display in the Sala Viscontea, everything that is memory and could not be archived – the photographic processes, the relationship with the design objects on display, the construction of the studio installations – becomes present and tangible, making moments, processes and experiences of a unique “laboratory” accessible, Studio Ballo, but also of a bygone era, that of analog photography.
The idea for an exhibition was born in 2022, when Marirosa Toscani Ballo donated the archive of the Ballo+Ballo Studio to the Civic Photographic Archive of the Municipality of Milan, the result of a lifetime of work with her husband Aldo Ballo. In 2023, the Civic Photographic Archive participated in the Strategia Fotografia Call promoted by the MIC with a project to enhance the Archive, which was the winner, and thus began the study of the exhibition project and the catalogue.
The exhibition features over a hundred photographs from the Ballo+Ballo studio , some design objects on loan from the ADI Design Museum and the Applied Art Collections of the Castello Sforzesco, and some original objects that belonged to the two photographers , as well as period magazines with which the Ballos collaborated and volumes containing their photographs.
Thanks to the video installations by Studio Azzurro, which dialogue with the photos and objects on display in the Sala Viscontea, everything that is memory and could not be archived – the photographic processes, the relationship with the design objects on display, the construction of the studio installations – becomes present and tangible, making moments, processes and experiences of a unique “laboratory” accessible, Studio Ballo, but also of a bygone era, that of analog photography.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, Italian-English, with scientific apparatus, essays and images, published by Silvana Editoriale.