Oscar Savio - Photographer. Architecture in the Sixties in Rome

“Black & White Architecture in Oscar

Savio’s Pictures”

CRDAV – MACRO, Rome

January 23rd – April 5th, 2010

MACROMUSEO D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA ROMA

“Black & White Architecture in Oscar Savio’s Pictures –

From CRDAV’s Photo-archive”

Over twenty years of history – from the mid-Fifties to the late Seventies – are on display at CRDAV’s Library (MACRO).

The exhibition is a tribute, offered by CRDAV – the Research and Documentation Centre for the Visual Arts – to Oscar Savio (Padua, 1912 – Rome, 2005), a key actor, though an unassuming one, of artistic photography in the Twentieth Century. On show is a choice of pictures kept at the Architectural Section of the Fondo Savio, at the Photo-archive of CRDAV.

This Presentation

This presentation covers three sites photographed by Oscar Savio in Rome: the underground parking garage located in Villa Borghese, the Rinascente building (an upscale department store), and the Piper Club.

Each has been put into its geographic context (via Google Earth), “summarised” in symbolic mosaic of pictures (via Photoshop) and documented by other data.

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A wider interactive version of this presentation will soon be available at the URL:

http://www.crdav.net

Credits

Conception and Project Management: Alessandro Califano, Senior Curator

Collaboration: Silvia Tosolini (contractor), Valeria Cristini (intern)

* * * *Many thanks to Lorenzo and Alessandra Buggenig

for discussing this project.

* * * *Pictures by: CRDAV Photo-archive, Rome, Private Archive Patrizia Savio (via ACTA photographica, IV/1, 2009 – for the title page) ; Google Earth ®, “Roma Cambia” by A. Califano and G.M. Portoghese (Rome, SPQR 1999) ; Flickr (© raising70, for the picture of Jimi Hendrix mistakenly described as “Jimi Hendrix live in Milan, Piper Club, Italy, 23 May 1968” – the name of the place is correct, but it’s in Rome, instead).

The Driving Through Villa Borghese Parking Garage video (© Alessandro Califano 2010) was shot on January 10th, 2010.

Underground Parking Garage – Villa Borghese(Arch. Luigi Moretti, 1966)

Underground Parking Garage – Villa Borghese (Arch. Luigi Moretti, 1966)

Underground Parking Garage – Villa Borghese (Arch. Luigi Moretti, 1966)





La Rinascente department store(Arch. Franco Albini, Arch. Franca Helg, 1957-61)

La Rinascente department store (Arch. Franco Albini, Arch. Franca Helg, 1957-61)











Piper Club(Cavalli Architetti Associati, 1965)





Piper Club - Jimi Hendrix (May 23rd, 1968)(Cavalli Architetti Associati, 1965)

Education

Oscar Savio - Photographer. Architecture in the Sixties in Rome