Enrico Vanzina's Pop Photography Exhibition in Turin

Enrico Vanzina, the celebrated Italian screenwriter, director, and producer of commedia all'italiana, presents 32 black-and-white photographs at Biasutti&Biasutti gallery in Turin. The exhibition, titled "Variazioni Pop," runs until October 9 and explores American pop culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Vanzina's works include digitally retouched portraits of actors, described by critic Francesco Poli as "a refined combinatorial game of different iconic materials" linking to avant-garde photomontage traditions. The images reference artists like Edward Hopper and Andy Warhol, musicians, films from Marilyn Monroe to the Blues Brothers, and literature by Hemingway, Capote, Nabokov, and Woody Allen. Vanzina, born in 1949 and winner of numerous awards including the Grolla d'Oro and Nastro d'Argento, previously exhibited at the Festival della Luce in Spilimbergo (2018, 2019) and Galleria Russo in Rome. He writes for Il Messaggero and describes his work as "a tail of images transformed by an invisible signifier: the return to figuration carrying the slag of the conceptual."