Staged Photography: Basilè, Ventura, and Guneriussen at Marcorossi Gallery in Verona

The Marcorossi Gallery in Verona presents a group exhibition titled 'Mettere in scena la fotografia' (Staging Photography), featuring works by Matteo Basilè, Paolo Ventura, and Rune Guneriussen. The show explores staged photography, a genre that constructs scenes to appear as real and eternal as a photographic snapshot. In Italy, debates still linger over the distinction between painting and photography, but this exhibition demonstrates photography's expansive potential. From the gallery's left window, a large altarpiece-like work by Basilè depicts a perfect scene with a figure emerging from semidarkness and a Latin phrase, all in a dreamy blue. Inside, Ventura's houses constructed from natural light and human figures form dirty, imprecise, and truthful narratives. Upstairs, Guneriussen's works exemplify Land Art in Northern Europe, featuring books, lit lamps, and chairs that mark lines in Norwegian forests. The exhibition runs in Verona, near Piazza Erbe, at one of the city's historic galleries.