Mario Spada: “Just ahead of hell.”
“Only in Front of Hell” is the title of Mario Spada’s exhibition held in Milan from 05/14/2014 to 06/14/2014.
Shots of hell’s rounds from a freelancer who rides around on his historic Vespa in a red jersey special, the one dedicated to theanti-mafia.
Subjects are Casal di Principe villas, seized decades earlier from Camorra bosses, abandoned to decay and often burned and destroyed by the same old owners. Photos of popular cementing, luxurious villas built with collusion to the state, scenes of neglect and decay.
Mario Spada reveals human tragedies with an objective, noncritical gaze that lays bare people and characters, places and settings.
Gomorrah on set
Among his best-known works are the set photos taken on the set of the film Gomorrah by
Matteo Garrone
, in Scampia, Naples.
The missing link between the novel by
Roberto Saviano
and Matteo Garrone‘s film, in a wasteland that besieges Naples and Campania.
Characters who roam among illicit trafficking, rotten dioxin fields and the bloody squalor of Scampia.
65 photographs that were part of the exhibition “
Gomorrah on set
“.
“Ground zero of mob cinema”-as the New Yorker wrote-which erases all rhetoric and complacency about criminal figures.
For Roberto Saviano, the work of his old partner in forays into alleys and sails appears to be a revolution: “No division between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, good and bad, no room for the dichotomies dear to the Western world.”
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Biography of Mario Spada
He began photography as a wedding assistant in Naples, where he lives and works.
His resume includes collaboration with theContrasto agency, numerous exhibitions, solo and group, in Italy as well as in New York, and the founding, in 2006, of LA.NA., a Neapolitan laboratory and cultural association that quickly established itself in the city as the first independent production and demonstration space.
But also the achievement of numerous international awards: among others, in 1999 and 2001, he was awarded at the Savignano festival for the Portfolio in the Square event; in 2001, he won ex aequo the Canon young photographers award, in the best portfolio section; and in 2007, he was awarded the best cover of the year for the
Express
with a portrait of the writer Roberto Saviano.
