Carla Cerati Centenary Marked With 200-Plus Photographs at Palazzo Reale, Milan

More than two hundred photographs by Carla Cerati fill Palazzo Reale in Milan through 10 January, mounted on the centenary of her birth. The Milan venue, described as the city's most prestigious art address, hosts the exhibition, whose title the reviewer singles out as especially apt. A quotation from Cerati appears on the back cover of the catalogue published by Cluster-A: she recalled that Bill Brandt claimed photography had helped him overcome a severe neurosis, while for her taking pictures meant gaining freedom. The reviewer notes the show is distinctly Milanese and asks whether that framing can adequately convey the output of one of the leading figures of Italian photography and beyond. The argument rests on her largest body of work, an auto-anthology functioning as a kind of self-portrait: Milano Metamorfosi, which examined the city between 1960 and 1970, tracking above all shifts in behaviour and in the figures she portrayed. Cerati's name has also been entered in the city's Famedio, the Pantheon-like hall at the Cimitero Monumentale reserved for distinguished Milanese. The catalogue is issued by Cluster-A.