Rare - Original - Vintage - A selection of photographs, posters, graphics, ephemera

Rare – Original – Vintage | A selection of photographs, posters, graphics, ephemera – Second Edition is the second exhibition on the same theme previously explored in 2024. Hosted at the studio-gallery Spazio e Immagini in Bologna, it presents a selection of about 35 original vintage materials chosen from the gallery’s own archive collections.

This exhibition offers a mix that blurs the line between document and artwork, moving across the languages of the Avant-Garde, Pop Culture, and Vernacular Culture. These themes have always defined the gallery’s identity within the perspective of an open horizon of Visual Arts.

On display are photographs, posters, and graphic works related to Cinema, Circus and Theatre Performances, Design, Fashion, Italian and International Counterculture from the 1910s to the 1980s.

Among the featured pieces are film photographs from the 1910s to the 1970s, particularly set photos and portraits — including portraits of Clara Calamai from the 1940s and Vittorio Gassman on the set of Daniele Cortis (1947). A selection of images from Italian genre cinema includes Lando Buzzanca in San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne (1976) and Eleonora Giorgi in Storia di una monaca di clausura (1973).

The theme of sexuality, influenced by the social theories of Wilhelm Reich, underlies the rare set photograph from La Rivoluzione sessuale (1968), while the interplay between avant-garde cinema and genre film is represented by images from the works of Alberto Cavallone and Max Pécas.