Festival image: Space Engineers by Daniel Rothbart, 1962-2019, digital collage, 61 x 48 centimeters.
Castelnuovo Fotografia 2021
October 2-10, 2021
Comune di Castelnuovo di Porto (Rome)
The ninth edition of Castelnuovo Fotografia opened to public and critical acclaim on October 2, 2021. Castelnuovo Fotografia is a festival of contemporary photography that takes place each year in the sixteenth century castle of Rocca Colonna in the medieval town of Castelnuovo di Porto near Rome.
EXTRAMOON
Curated by Manuela De Leonardis
Even if scientists have reached Mars, for us romantics, the moon remains a partially unexplored space. The dark side of the moon, moonlight, mooncake, honeymoon, phases of the moon, lunar landing… These terms evoke thoughts and glances toward a future landscape – an imaginative elsewhere to which we project a part of ourselves. In EXTRAMOON, we travel at the speed of light across works by twelve international contemporary artists.
Manuela De Leonardis
Manuela De Leonardis (Rome 1966) is an art historian, journalist, and independent curator. She writes about photography and the visual arts for the cultural pages of Il Manifesto and supplements, including Alias, Alias Domenica and L’ExtraTerrestre. De Leonardis also writes for art a part of cult(ure), Il Fotografo, and Exibart. Her books include A tu per tu con i grandi fotografi – Vol. I (Postcart 2011); A tu per tu con grandi fotografi e videoartisti – Vol. II (Postcart 2012); A tu per tu con gli artisti che usano la fotografia – Vol. III (Postcart 2013); A tu per tu. Fotografi a confronto – Vol. IV (Postcart 2017); Isernia. L’altra memoria (Volturnia Edizioni 2017); Il sangue delle donne. Tracce di rosso sul panno bianco (Postmedia Books 2019); and Jack Sal. Chrom/A (Danilo Montanari Editore 2019). De Leonardis also explores the rapport between art and food in her books Kakushiaji, il gusto nascosto (Gangemi 2008), CAKE. La cultura del dessert tra tradizione Araba e Occidente (Postcart 2013), Taccuino Sannita. Ricette molisane degli anni Venti (Ali & No 2015), Jack Sal. Half Empty/Half Full – Food Culture Ritual (2019) and Ginger House (2019). In 2016 she joined the advisory board of Castelnuovo Fotografia, a festival of contemporary photography Castelnuovo di Porto (Rome).