Gabriele Micalizzi's 'Legacy' at Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia

The Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia hosts 'Legacy. Materia-Storia-Identità', a solo exhibition by war photographer Gabriele Micalizzi (Milan, 1984), running until September 1, 2024. The show presents over 50 works, including unpublished shots and experimental pieces. Micalizzi, a founder of the Cesura collective, has covered conflicts from Thailand's Red Shirts protests to the Ukrainian civil war, Libyan liberation, ISIS, and Pope Francis's Iraq visit. The exhibition is structured in sections: it opens with newspapers and videos of his reportage, then features 12 contact sheets with enlarged negatives on light boxes, followed by silver salt prints, a large polyptych on sacred art, first-time images of Christian persecution by ISIS and Pope Francis's Iraq journey, and a grid of 16 iconic photos from 2009–2024. The final section showcases site-specific 'photographic frescoes'—a technique Micalizzi conceived in Gaza in 2012 during a blackout, printing photos directly onto walls using photosensitive emulsion. He reflects on photography's crisis due to smartphones and AI, stating 'photography is experiencing an intrinsic war, it has lost physicality and therefore dignity.' The exhibition also features a late 15th-century Last Supper fresco in the venue.