Atlantis (Metaponto, Matera)
2006
© Linda Fregni Nagler
Courtesy of the artist
LINDA FREGNI NAGLER
Playgrounds
Playgrounds consists of a series of images of playgrounds shot by night. The playgrounds in these images lack two crucial features: colour and their very young users swarming all around them. By losing their function, these places turn into something else, out-of-scale architecture, uninhabited neighbourhoods, even changing in tone and mood. The cheerfulness and lightness normally associated with these particular installations for play is no longer there. It is replaced by a general sense of suspension and restlessness. That which has always appeared to be bright and clear now shows its darker side: Playgrounds highlights the power of photography, whose uniqueness lies in its ability to transform its subjects rather than reproduce them.
Location
Palazzo Boncompagni
Via del Monte, 8
The exhibition closed on November 26.
BIOGRAPHY
Linda Fregni Nagler (Stockholm, Sweden, 1976) was born in Stockholm and lives in Milan, where she graduated in 2000 from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions – including 55° Venice Biennale – and in museums in Italy (MAXXI; Triennale; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo) and abroad (Moderna Museet Stockholm; Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble; Columbia University, NY; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg). In 2007, she received the New York Prize from the Foreign Office and Columbia University. In 2014 she was artist in residence at the IASPIS in Stockholm and in 2016 she won the ACACIA Prize. She holds the photography chair at the Accademia Carrara di Bergamo and teaches photography at the IULM University of Milan. She has published monographs with MACK books (London) and with Humboldt books (Milan).
Riverside Park (NY City, NY)
2007
© Linda Fregni Nagler
Courtesy of the artist
Location
Palazzo Boncompagni
Via del Monte, 8
The exhibition closed on November 26.
Palazzo Boncompagni (now Benelli) is situated in Via del Monte 8, just steps away from piazza Maggiore and the Two Towers, right in the historical centre of the city. Pope Gregory XIII, who was previously Cardinal Ugo Boncompagni, was born and lived in the palace – which belonged to his family – until his rise to popehood on 13 May 1572. The Palace was built upon initiative of his father – Cristoforo Boncompagni – in 1537, and completed in 1548; it stands out due to its sober fourteen-century styled façade and its large adorned portal. The papal insignia of Gregory XIII, Ugo Boncompagni, is visible on the 1545 portal.
