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What’s gotten into your head

What’s gotten into your head

"What's gotten into your head" the GALLERIA ANGELICA in Rome, from 6 to 24 November is exhibiting 42 large-format photographs by Roberto CAMPANARO

‘The latest project by photographer Roberto Campanaro, with the irreverent and ironic title ‘CHE TI SEI MESSA IN TESTA’ (WHAT YOU’VE MADE YOURSELF INTO YOUR HEAD), collects 42 portraits of women shot in the studio wearing dresses, headgear and jewellery designed and constructed by the author himself. Roberto Campanaro’s dreamlike world is revealed through saturated colours, golden hues, red and black, which enhance the theatricality of the compositions and the expressive richness of the portraits. For the staging, the author paints backdrops or composes them with fabrics that create transparencies and nuances, harmonising with the scenography dominated by the face of the woman portrayed. Campanaro reworks archetypes of the female universe through evocative and surreal portraits, where reality and fantasy intertwine to create visionary and poetic combinations.

This exhibition is an invitation to immerse oneself in an imaginative journey, where art becomes a vehicle for new visions and connections between dream and reality. During the event, visitors will be able to be portrayed by Campanaro on the set installed in the gallery, and all will receive a gift from the hands of the photographer. From an interview with the artist: ‘I fall in love with faces, the depth of their gazes, the intense expression from which a soul transpires. In photographing women, I try to pay homage to their charm because beauty is woman’. ‘I have always observed women trying to capture the details of their special way of taking care of themselves’. ‘While designing this work, what I reflected on became suggestions for the construction of images, sometimes surreal or fantastic, which ended up taking possession of my thoughts and sometimes my dreams’. OPENING DAYS AND OPENING HOURS TUESDAY TO SATURDAY: 11.00/13.00 – 15.00/19.30 SUNDAY: 13.00/20.00 MONDAY: CLOSED OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION TO THE PUBLIC 6 NOVEMBER VERNISSAGE SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER at 18.00 FINISSAGE SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER at 18.00 From 12 to 15 and from 19 to 22 November portraits are possible in the gallery by appointment