With the start of the new academic year, the RUFA Talks are back. Kicking off this year’s series of events will be Iacopo Pasqui, author and photographer specialized in Fine Art and documentary photography.
Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 11:00 AM in Aula Magna (G13) at the RUFA campus on Via Giuseppe Libetta, 7.
“Der Engel” is the latest book by photographer Iacopo Pasqui, created after winning the MiC’s “Italian Council” grant. The volume focuses on work created during an artist residency in Poland between 2018 and 2021 and draws inspiration from the film “Wings of Desire” by German director Wim Wenders. Invited by the Fundacja Edukacji Wizualnej and the organizers of Fotofestiwal, the author depicts the city of Lodz with particular attention to its contemporary cultural and social history.
The talk will delve into the dynamics involved in creating a photographic book and the relationship between visual storytelling and modes of engagement.
Photographs from the installation created for the exhibition of the entire project will be shown, along with a video related to the second part of the work, not included in the photo book.
Iacopo Pasqui
Iacopo Pasqui is a photographer specialized in Fine Art and documentary photography. He uses the medium to observe and critically explore contemporary society, often reconstructing it metaphorically through personal experiences and conditions, favoring medium- to long-term projects. He has won numerous awards and competitions, including “Strategia Foto-grafia 2023” and “Italian Council 2023,” both promoted by MiC, and “Giovane Fotografia Italiana #07” at the Fotografia Europea Festival in 2019. He has been a member of “Futures Talents Photographers” since 2019. He won the “Leica Talent 24×36,” the “Panorami contemporanei e luoghi in trasformazione” contest – Photography Residencies in Italy, promoted by MiBACT and GAI (2017). He is among the photographers featured in the book “Storia della fotografia in Italia. Dal 1839 ad oggi.” by G. D’Autilia (Einaudi, Turin, 2012). He has published and collaborated with public and private institutions such as IC-CD, MiC, the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana G. Treccani, GAI, Einaudi, L’Espresso, and magazines and newspapers including Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Quarterly, Zeit Magazine, Volkskrant Magazine, and others. He is represented by the German agency Connected Archive. He is the author of books and publications such as “Der Engel” (Witty Books/19Rivers, Turin/Lodz 2024), “N” (Witty Books, Turin 2021), “1999” (Witty Books, Turin 2016), and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He has taken part in artist residencies and held lectures at the Universities of Perugia and Teramo.
>> Registration for the talk is available starting Tuesday, November 12, 2024.
The Talks are open to all RUFA students. To register, log in to the RUFA Career System with your credentials.
If you have any questions while registering, consult this Guide. If questions remain after reading the guide, contact stage.aziende@unirufa.it.
Target audience: All students, especially recommended for the Cinema/Photography departments
Duration: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Location: Aula Magna (G13) – Via Giuseppe Libetta, 7