Across Italy. Photographs by Pepi Merisio

A journey through images that crosses Italy from the economic boom to the 1980s: this is the heart of the exhibition «Across Italy. Photographs by Pepi Merisio», set up at the Museo della fotografia Sestini, in the evocative spaces of the Convent of Saint Francis in Bergamo. The event, supported by SIAD Fondazione Sestini, is the result of a collaboration between the Museo delle storie di Bergamo, the Touring Club Italiano and the Sestini Foundation itself, custodian of the precious photographic archive of Pepi Merisio since 2018.

With approximately 140 black and white and color photographs, the exhibition aims to tell the public about Merisio’s commitment to the editorial documentation of the Italian regions recalling, among other things, his long collaboration with the Touring Club Italiano in the famous series “Attraverso l’Italia”, published between 1956 and 1972.

An opportunity to reflect on the transformations of the Italian landscape, in its natural, anthropized and human declinations, during and after the years of the economic miracle. From life in the Alps to the Florio tuna fishery in Favignana, from the Sacred Mountains of Piedmont to the Turchini procession in Procida, each photograph is a testimony of a changing Italy, told with delicate intensity.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published by Lyasis Edizioni, which contains all the images on display, enriched by an introductory critical essay by Denis Curti and an in-depth study dedicated to the Pepi Merisio collection, which became part of the Archivio fotografico Sestini heritage in 2018 (archivio.museodellestorie.bergamo.it). The catalogue is on sale at the bookshop of the Convent of Saint Francis.

A PROJECT BY
Comune di Bergamo
Museo delle storie di Bergamo

SUPPORTER
SIAD Fondazione Sestini

IN COLLABORATION WITH
Touring Club Italiano