Paola De Pietri's 'Questa pianura' at Galleria Unosunove, Rome
The exhibition 'Questa pianura' by Italian photographer Paola De Pietri (born 1960 in Reggio Emilia) is on view at Galleria Unosunove in Rome. De Pietri's photographs capture the Po Valley lowlands, a landscape associated with writers like Ligabue, Guareschi, and Zavattini. Her work documents abandoned farmhouses and boundary trees, evoking a bittersweet fairy-tale quality. The series explores themes of uncertainty and infinity, with skies reminiscent of Pascoli's poetry. The exhibition presents these images as monuments to a vanished rural civilization.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'Questa pianura' by Paola De Pietri
- Venue: Galleria Unosunove, Rome
- Artist born 1960 in Reggio Emilia
- Photographs depict the Po Valley lowlands
- References writers Ligabue, Guareschi, Zavattini
- Themes of uncertainty and infinity
- Imagery includes abandoned farmhouses and boundary trees
- Skies evoke Pascoli's 'voci di tenebra azzurra'
Entities
Artists
- Paola De Pietri
Institutions
- Galleria Unosunove
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Reggio Emilia
- Po Valley