Large Glass Shows Mario Cresci's Photographs of 1960s Southern Italy in 'People I Care About'

Key facts

• Large Glass is presenting People I Care About, Mario Cresci's second solo exhibition at the gallery.
• The exhibition focuses on images made in Tricarico, a town and comune in the province of Matera, Italy, between 1966 and 1967.
• At the time, sociologists and intellectuals were drawn to Southern Italy, inspired by Carlo Levi's writings and Ernesto De Martino's anthropological research.
• The portraits are part of a significant body of work documenting the area, its people, and Cresci's relationships to them.
• Antonella Pelizzari wrote an accompanying text for the exhibition.
• Pelizzari compares the works to traces left by a contemporary migrant, signs of a human encounter with multiple geographies and media.
• Pelizzari states that for Cresci the camera is equivalent to a brush, a felt pen, and a charcoal in its continuous writing and rewriting of an experience.
• The exhibition is on view at Large Glass.