Patrizia Genovesi

Patrizia Genovesi (born 1962) is an Italian photographer, video artist and lecturer. Her works include portraits of Nobel Prize laureates published by the Nobel Prize Organization.[1] Genovesi teaches Photography at the Free University of Cinema in Rome and holds seminars and lectures at different venues on a variety of visual art topics.

Career

Genovesi studied photography with Leonard Freed, Richard Kalvar, Abbas and Moises Saman of Magnum Photos Agency.

Genovesi takes inspiration from other arts as well as from technology, benefitting from scientific education coupled with studies of drawing and painting from the Italian tradition, music execution and composition, and other abilities like screenwriting with Mario Monicelli, writing with Domenico Starnone, and theater direction with Argentinian Renzo Casali.

Genovesi's production can hardly be classified within any given artistic trend in photography and video art. It covers a variety of styles and subjects, ranging from black-and-white to over-saturated color and includes portraits, landscapes, architecture, street photography, light painting, and others.

Genovesi is also active as a lecturer in conferences and seminars, both in-presence and online, on topics related to visual arts including photography, painting, and film photography.[2][3][4]

Genovesi's photographs of Nobel Prize laureates have been published by the Nobel Prize Organization. Her portrait of Mrs. Levi-Montalcini was exhibited in Kamienna Gora, Poland, during the celebrations for Nobel Prize laureate Viktor Hamburger. Genovesi's portraits of Magnum Photo Agency photographer Leonard Freed are part of the permanent collection of the Charleroi Museum of Photography in Charleroi Belgium.[5]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • Sculpting With Light, Mondadori, Rome (2003); Mondadori, Milan (2004); Tempio di Dioniso al Quirinale, Rome (2005); Torretta Valadier, Rome (2006)
  • Cinema's People, Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, Notebook, Rome (2007)
  • Miscellaneous, Balletti Palace Hotel for Mensa IBD, San Martino al Cimino, Viterbo (2008)
  • Coriolan by Ludwig van Beethoven, Milan Malpensa Airport, Milan (2008–2009) and Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome (2009)[6]
  • Art and Science, Club of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Rome (2010)[7] and Club of the Ministry for Military Marine, Rome (2011)[8]
  • Art and Science and Retrospective, Italian Institute of Culture, Budapest (2011)[9]
  • Image – Historic Garbatella, 3f Gallery, Rome (2012)[10]
  • Giuseppe Verdi's Women, Club of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Rome (2013)[11] and Centro Leica, Florence (2015)
  • Symmetries, rules and schemes in the art of image, Rome (2017)[12]
  • Ildegarde from Bingen, Rome (2018)[13]
  • Garden Misnake, Rome (2019)[14]

Collective exhibitions
  • Mirame, Palazzo Bastogi, Florence (2012)[15]
  • Retrospective, Festa della Cultura, Rome (2012)
  • Painters, Grenning Gallery, New York (2012)[16]

Selected projects
  • Garden Misnake, exhibited in Rome in 2019, includes pictures, music and videos suggesting a reflection about Eve, pictured as a symbol not only of women but of the whole human gender, in its path from the desire for knowledge to full awareness.
  • Ildegarde from Bingen, exhibited in Rome in 2018, is the result of Genovesi's research on inspiring Ildegarde, a 12th century German nun, misticist, philosopher, nature scientist, musician, writer, who gained extraordinary authoritativeness in her time's cultural and politic environment.
  • Symmetries, rules and schemes in the art of image was exhibited in Rome in 2017. The project was composed of pictures realized basing upon defined mathematic ratios and geometric criteria.
  • Giuseppe Verdi's Women was exhibited in 2013 at the Club of Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Rome, Italy, and subsequenty at the Centro Leica in Florence in 2015. Focusing on Verdi's female characters, the project is composed of large-size, mostly black and white pictures and a set of videos realized as long-shot sequences of models interpreting La Traviata's Violetta, Macbeth's wife, Attila's Odabella, Aida, Joan of Arc, Il Trovatore's Azucena.
  • Art and Science was first exhibited in 2010 at the Club of Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Rome, Italy, and subsequently at the Club of Italian Ministry for Military Marine, Rome, Italy and at the Institute of Italian Culture in Budapest, Hungary, both in 2011. It is a gallery of black and white portraits of world-renowned scientists, including Nobel Prize, Fields Medal or other prize winners Rita Levi-Montalcini, Andrew Wiles, John Forbes Nash Jr., Richard R. Ernst, Edward Witten, Benoît Mandelbrot, and Douglas Hofstadter. With the collaboration of technology expert Corrado Giustozzi, excerpts from the portrayed scientist's works were hidden among the pictures’ pixels to artistically emphasize the link between the thinker and the thought.[17]
  • Painters was exhibited in 2012 at the Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York, USA. It consists of color portraits of a group of painters of the Florence Academy (Ben Fenske, Nelson H. White, Hege Elizabeth Haugen, Ramiro and Melissa Franklin Sanchez) individually shot in their working studios.
  • Coriolan by Ludwig van Beethoven was first exhibited at Milan Malpensa Airport between 2008 and 2009 and subsequently at the Vallicelliana Library in Rome, Italy, in 2009. It is composed of a gallery of frames from Genovesi's black and white video shooting of orchestra conductor Giorgio Proietti executing Beethoven's overture recalling William Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
  • Cinema's People was exhibited at the Auditorium Della Musica Notebook, Rome, in 2007. It is composed of a gallery of black and white portraits of cinema directors, actors and art directors, including Vincenzo Cerami, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Stefania Sandrelli

References
  1. "Nobelprize.org". Nobelprize.org.
  2. "Steven Spielberg, raccontato in una conferenza-show di Patrizia Genovesi". Il Sole 24 Ore - Nova 100.
  3. "Patrizia Genovesi racconta Vincent Van Gogh al Palladium". culturamente.it.
  4. "Pittura impressionista e fotografia". memecult.it.
  5. "Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi – Accueil". Museephoto.be.
  6. "Coriolano:Installazione multimediale di Giorgio Proietti e Patrizia Genovesi". Informazione – Comunicati Stampa.
  7. "Mostre: 'Arte e Scienza', la fotografia 'multimediale' di Patrizia Genovesi e Corrado Giustozzi". Adnkronos.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  8. "Arte e Scienza: la mostra multimediale di Patrizia Genovesi e Corrado Giustozzi". Universy.it.
  10. "Patrizia Genovesi – IMAGE Garbatella Storica". Exibart.com.
  11. "La Stampa – Patrizia Genovesi. Donne di Giuseppe Verdi". Lastampa.it.
  12. "Simmetrie, regole e schemi nell'arte dell'immagine". Romeartweek.com.
  13. "Ildegarda di Bingen – On line il catalogo della mostra fotografica dedicata al grande personaggio storico". Youreporter.it.
  14. "L'Eden di Patrizia Genovesi in mostra a Roma". Themammothreflex.com.
  15. "Patrizia Genovesi – Mirame". Artribune.com.
  16. "Fine Art Connoisseur Patrizia Genovesi by Laura Grenning". Lnx.patriziagenovesi.com.
  17. "Foto Il genio e la scienza: volti da non dimenticare – 1 di 16 – Repubblica.it". Repubblica.it.
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