National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN) exhibits Paolo Solari Bozzi's Namibia Sun Pictures.
National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN) exhibits Paolo Solari Bozzi's Namibia Sun Pictures.
The friends of the National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN) are cordially invited to the exhibition opening “Namibia Sun Pictures” by photographer Paolo Solari Bozzi. Born in Rome in 1957, Paolo Solari Bozzi has dual Italian and Swiss nationality and lives in Switzerland. At the age of 15, Paolo was introduced by a fellow student at a boarding school in Venice to the world of black and white photography and to the darkroom. For 5 months in 2012, with his wife Antonella and their Land Rover TD5, Paolo travelled through Southern Africa. Using mechanical medium format cameras and wide angle lenses, Paolo depicts, in 53 black and white images printed in his own darkroom, some aspects of the lives of Damara, Himba and Bushmen, exulting in the ‘quiet elegance’ (as written by Cara Weston, that excellent photographer, and granddaughter of the extraordinary Edward) perceived when looking into the intense eyes of the Namibian peoples. Paolo’s 2012 photographs, together with those shot in 2010 during his previous journey to Namibia, form the raw material for his first book Namibia Sun Pictures, and this exhibition in Windhoek offers visitors a more intimate means of seeing Paolo’s work, now with intensity and on a larger scale than found in the book.
Date: Monday, 03.03.2014 at 18h00
Location: Lower Gallery of the National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN)
Contact:
Selma Kaulinge
PRO National Art Gallery of Namibia
Tell: +264 61 231 160
Cell: +264 814 377 233
email: pro@nagn.org.na
