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Sections of Northeast end-of-century archive

MARCO ZANTA

Taken between the mid-80s and the early 90s of the last century, the photographs of Zanta represent only a part of the work done in those years for some companies operating in the office design sector. If in the intentions these photographs had to provide tangible evidence of what was produced at that time, after almost forty years the same images tell a world, that of the Italian North East, made of ambitions, hopes and productivity, at a time when the economy of that area produced much of the national GDP. Extrapolated from the function for which they were made, the photographs show the cross-section of a period in which everything seemed projected towards an infinite of constant wealth and opulence.

Work exhibited during OMNEFEST2021 (Villa Parco Bolasco – University of Padua, 4th September – 1st November 2021) and published in the book “OMNE/BEAUTY 2018-2020” (Skinnerboox, Jesi 2021)

TitleActivityAuthorCategoryCollaborationPlaceYear
Dialogue with the artists and book launch OMNE/BEAUTY 2018-2020
OMNEFEST
Various Artists
PANEL DISCUSSION
Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto
05-09-2021
Narrations by images
OMNEFEST
Various Artists
EXHIBITION
Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto
04-09-2021
Around Beauty
OMNEFEST
GIANANTONIO BATTISTELLA, MASSIMO SORDI, MARCO ZANTA
EXHIBITION
Villa Parco Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto
04-09-2021
OMNE/BEAUTY 2018-2020
BEAUTY
Various Artists
PUBLICATION
01-09-2021
Territory. What crisis?
OMNEFEST
MARCO ZANTA
CONFERENCE
Castelfranco Veneto, Museo Casa Giorgione
14-10-2018
Sections of Northeast end-of-century archive
BEAUTY
MARCO ZANTA
PROJECT
02-08-2018