Aldo Fadda: from Giorgio Armani to the Renaissance

In the context of the 85th Edition of Pitti Uomo, at Villa Bardini and Museo Stefano Bardini you can view the two sections of the exhibition "Aldo Fadda. From Giorgio Armani to the Renaissance. Photographs from the 1978 to 2013 "curated by art historians Martina Corgnati, Carlo Sisi, former Director of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti, with Luigi Salvioli, For more fashion. Image and communication, founder and organizer of the event.

Aldo Fadda has conquered the fashion world in the late 1970s thanks to the collaboration with Giorgio Armani, that has helped create the most important campaigns in decades, by signing some of the most exciting chapters in the history of the Made in Italy.

Despite this, This is the first time in this extraordinary photographer, among the most gifted and original of our time, artist known worldwide, is dedicated a monographic study that summarizes the creative path around 180 spectacular photographs, mostly in Armani colors (White, Gray, sand), a extra large size, all reprinted under the author's supervision.

The exhibition allows you to discover the creations and the artist's interests in fashion and beyond, i.e. in the direction of the Visual Arts that, for a Florentine as Fadda, have always been the most natural and indispensable context, becoming soon in magnetic fields and really inexhaustible sources of inspiration.

The exhibition was born in Florence, the hometown where Fadda continues to live, to work and explore roads, corners, works and adventurous and exciting characters dérives harbingers of continuous discoveries and, through these latest, new images.

Two installations of the exhibition: at Villa Bardini (Costa San Giorgio 2) fashion photos, advertising campaigns, the reasons embodied by models and models but also from ordinary people, — a summary of almost thirty creative symbiosis with Giorgio Armani; the route continues at the Museo Stefano Bardini (via de ' Renai 37) with the Renaissance section curated by Antonella Director Nesi.

Aldo Fadda images allow the visitor to discover the excellence of Italian fashion at its most beautiful and innovative: the 1980s, When Giorgio Armani invented a sleek and vaguely androgynous woman and a man from the refined look, sometimes sometimes transgressive narcissist.

Until 16 March
Villa Bardini: hours 10 – 19 (closed on Mondays); € 8, reduced 6, schools 4.
Museo Stefano Bardini: Mon/Fri/Sat/Sun hours 11 – 17, € 6, reduced 4,50, free schools.

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