ASIA ARGENTO ANALOGICAL ANTHOLOGY

The National Museum of Cinema presents Asia Argento Analogical Anthology at the Mole Antonelliana, an exhibition on Asia Argento as a photographer.

The exhibition is curated by Stefano Iachetti and  organised by the National Museum of Cinema as a side event of the 34^th  Lovers Film Festival, that takes place in Turin from April the 24^th to April the 28^th, 2019.

Asia Argento is known to the vast public as an actress and a director, and she is less well known as a photographer, despite the fact her images have been published on major national and international magazines. Asia is a photographer, just like Elda Luxardo, her paternal grandmother once was, and has inherited her aesthetic taste, shooting techniques and retouching by hand. Asia Argento and her images printed from 35 mm and Polaroids, sharing part of her world, through her self-portraits, suggestions, colours and graphics.

On the outside fence of the Mole Antonelliana, 23 large images Argento shot between 2001 and 2004 using a 35mm film, with four shots by Stefano Iachetti showing Asia on the set of Misunderstood (Incompresa), the movie she directed in 2013. In the Temple Hall, the heart of the National Museum of Cinema, below the big screen,  170 very evocative Polaroids, which the artist worked on with colours and materials, creating a beguilingly interesting fusion with a wealth of tributes to musicians, actors and artists in general.

A  bilingual catalogue, published by Scalpendi Editore, entitled Asia Argento Antologia Analogica, edited by Stefano Iachetti, including 27 photographs of the outside panels and a selection of the Polaroids on display, as well as texts by Sergio Toffetti, Stefano Iachetti and an interview to Argento.