Aldo Tagliaferro's Photographic Experiments at Reggio Emilia

An exhibition of Aldo Tagliaferro's work is on view in Reggio Emilia as part of the Circuito Off of Fotografia Europea. The show features multiple series that demonstrate the artist's technical and poetic experimentation. Tagliaferro (Legnano, 1936 – Parma, 2009) used photographic images not as mere reproduction but as a tool to influence the interpretation of reality, as noted by critic Alberto Fiz in a 2011 catalog. His works critique the socio-political context of the late 1960s, analyze human behavior, and explore art fruition and private memory. He often employed mass media images, transforming and combining them to propose new readings. The exhibition also includes family photographs and original shots, notably the series 'Identificazione oggettivizzata,' which features numerous frames of twins originally mounted in sequence to create a minimalist alphabet of bodies with extraordinary signic efficacy.