Gibellina Photoroad Preview Opens in Palermo with Fontcuberta and Torre
The Gibellina Photoroad festival, scheduled for 2019, will have a preview in Palermo from September 6 to October 30, 2018. Among the highlights is Joan Fontcuberta's Sputnik series, which will debut on September 14 at Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, alongside Danilo Torre's video projection, Supercut '68. Three discussions with photographers are planned: Tobias Zielony on September 6, Letizia Battaglia and Joan Fontcuberta on September 14, and Mario Cresci on October 6. The festival examines the interplay between reality and fiction in photography. Fontcuberta's Sputnik series, originally showcased in 2015, tells a fabricated tale of cosmonaut Ivan Istochnikov, while Torre's work offers a reimagined view of 1968 films.
Key facts
- Gibellina Photoroad preview runs September 6 to October 30, 2018 in Palermo.
- Joan Fontcuberta's Sputnik series opens September 14 at Cantieri Culturali della Zisa.
- Danilo Torre's Supercut '68 video projection is also on September 14.
- Talks with Tobias Zielony (Sept 6), Letizia Battaglia and Joan Fontcuberta (Sept 14), Mario Cresci (Oct 6).
- Fontcuberta's Sputnik fabricates the story of cosmonaut Ivan Istochnikov lost on Soyuz 2 in 1968.
- Fontcuberta revealed the hoax; his face is the cosmonaut's, and his surname translates to Russian.
- Fontcuberta received the Hasselblad Award in 2013.
- Torre's installation remixes films from 1968 across four asynchronous projections.
Entities
Artists
- Joan Fontcuberta
- Danilo Torre
- Tobias Zielony
- Letizia Battaglia
- Mario Cresci
- Peter Lindebergh
- Neil Armstrong
- Jurij Gagarin
- Valentina Tereskova
- John F. Kennedy
- Ludovico Quaroni
- Jean-Luc Godard
Institutions
- Gibellina Photoroad
- Cantieri Culturali della Zisa
- Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia
- Museo Riso
- Hasselblad Award
- NASA
- Artribune
Locations
- Palermo
- Italy
- Gibellina
- Barcelona
- Spain
- Catania
- Chiavari
- Wuppertal
- Siberia
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Moon