On the occasion of Giornata del Contemporaneo, saturday October 7th 2023, the first one-man show in Turin by the Ligurian artist Riccardo Bandiera, curated by Francesca Canfora. The exhibition offers a selection of some of the artist's most significant photographic projects gathered around the title "Where you cry and you don't know che”, a phrase that does not present a theme, but rather suggests an atmosphere: it alludes to the refined but never redundant poetics of Bandiera's works. Melancholy, suspended atmospheres, underwater visions and his unmistakable swimmers depicted as nymphs or poetic muses: the chosen subjects of Riccardo Bandiera's photographs are often evanescent. In addition to the "Hiraeth" and "Atlas over arteries" series, on display are also some unpublished works from the "Nantes Lubricis Pelagi" project, whose artistic research is still in progress.
Riccardo Bandiera born in 1973 lives in Liguria. Freelance photographer, professional registered with TAU Visual, he has exhibited in Barcelona, ​​Brussels, Rotterdam, Arles, Turin, Genoa, Rome, Munich, Adria, in group and personal exhibitions. In 2013 in Paratissima (Turin) he was awarded among the most deserving artists with the series of aquatic photos taken in disposable analogue, "Don't drown in the river". The project - exhibited at the Galata del Mare Museum in Genoa - was reported and awarded for the Biennale in the Ligurian capital from 4 to 18 July 2015.
In 2016 he received the first prize in the photography section of the international contemporary art competition of the Genoese Satura Art Gallery, and won the first prize at the Salerno Biennale of contemporary art with "Anedonia". In 2017 he participated in the Voies Off in Arles, during the Rencontres, exhibiting works taken from "Atlas Over Arteries". In November the photographic book “Essenze Invisibili” was published by Danilo Montanari, in which the author photographed three special children from Ravenna, suffering from neurological syndromes. He received the third prize at the international exhibition Nowart gallery InArte in Bergamo from the critic and curator Denis Curti in December 2017. In 2018 he participated in group exhibitions often collaborating with galleries abroad and winning two awards during the Milan Photo Week.
In 2019, the same photo from the “Atlas Over Arteries” series was used as an image of Paratissima Bologna and as the cover of the ClickMagazine magazine (n° 58) in which the author was interviewed.