A Venice, starting today March 29, inaugurates a new space dedicated to photography, The Rooms of Photography .
On the occasion of the public opening, the center is exhibiting the show Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation until August 6.
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The Rooms of Photography
The Rooms of Photography are configured as an international center for research and enhancement of photography and the culture of images.
Exhibitions and reviews will be organized in Venice and other Italian cities, workshops, meetings, in the belief that photography should continue to have its specific home in Venice.
Who was Ugo Mulas
Ugo Mulas was born near Brescia on August 28, 1928.
He moved to Milan, studied law but did not complete his studies. He began frequenting the Jamaica bar, a meeting place for intellectuals and artists. In 1954, he produced his first official report at the Venice Biennale. The following year, his first photographs were published.
In 1964, during the Biennale, the Pop Art movement, which originated in the United States in the 1950s and 60s, was presented to the European public for the first time.
Mulas met artists of the caliber of Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. In the years to come, he collaborated with many other artists, both Italian and foreign.
He died in Milan in 1973.
Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation
The exhibition Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation coincides with the 50th anniversary of the author’s passing.
An exhibition path that unfolds in more than 300 images, including 30 photographs never exhibited before, documents, books, publications, films, offers a synthesis capable of providing a reading that opens up to the various experiences faced by Ugo Mulas.
Mulas, who began his career as a self-taught artist, quickly understands that being a photographer involves providing a critical testimony of society, and it is this awareness that shapes his first reports between 1953 and 1954.
He captures the suburbs of Milan and the artistic and cultural environment of the early fifties at the famous Bar Jamaica, of which he was a regular patron.
Mulas quickly establishes himself in various fields of photography, from fashion to advertising, publishing in numerous magazines such as “Settimo Giorno,” “Rivista Pirelli,” “Domus,” “Vogue.”
If you are interested in other must-see exhibitions in Venice, we also recommend our in-depth article “Venice: exhibitions to see in 2023“.
If you are passionate about photography, there is also “Photography exhibitions 2023: the ten not to miss.”
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