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Riccardo Zipoli
Member of Caroun Photo Club (CPC)
Member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA)
I was born in Prato (Italy) in 1952.
Since graduating in Persian language and literature from the University of Venice in 1975, I have been teaching those subjects at the same university. I was director of the Department of Eurasian Studies at Venice University from 1990 until 1996 and from 1999 until 2005. I have published many articles and books about classical and contemporary Persian poetry, also working in the field of translation (my translations into Italian include two books of poems by the Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami:
Con il vento, Milan, 2001; Un lupo in agguato, Turin, 2003).
Currently I am working on questions of stylistics and rhetoric with a special focus on Persian rhyme and satirical and obscene verse. At the same time as my university activities, I have carried out intense photographic activities. My first one-man show of photographs was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in October 1976. A year later I showed my works at the 14th São Paulo Contemporary Art Biennial, Brazil, and at the Diaframma gallery, Milan.
In 1978 I graduated with a diploma in film-making and director of photography from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome. Since then, I have held exhibitions in various Italian cities (Milan, Venice, Bologna, Prato, Bolzano, Montemurlo, Quarrata, Borbiago, Bari). In May 2005, I organized an exhibition at the Silk Road gallery in Tehran. My explorations of the Persian landscape have been featured in magazines
(Atlante, XVI, 130, 1975, pp.40-49; Il Diaframma-Fotografia
Italiana, 219, 1976, pp.27-34), miscellanies (Oltre la soglia: Iran, cultura, arte, storia,
Venice, 2005, pp.146-153), and books (Golsciane raz, Milan, 1976;
Tâ Nâkojâ/Verso Nondove, Tehran, 1984; Un giardino nella
voce, Florence, 1995; Tâ shaqâyeq hast/While poppies
bloom, Tehran, 2005; Solitudini Persiane, Bari, 2006).
Although so far my published photographs have concentrated on the Persian landscape, I have actually taken photographs in over thirty countries (books of photographs taken outside Iran are
Il libro di Lenin, Venice, 1992 and Venezia alle
finestre, Venice, 2006) and I have a rich archive of images of them. I now plan to publish the most significant photographs from my collection on my
site
www.riccardozipoli.com.
Riccardo Zipoli, Italian member of CPC, has a photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Tehran. It consists of 40 color and B&W photos (Color slides 24x36 mm: Kodak Professional Elite Chrome 200 ISO) taken by Nikon FM2, Lens Nikkor 135 mm, 2004-6.
Subject: "Venice in windows (Venezia alle finestre)"
The photos in the exhibition show how Venice appears reflected in the panes of its own windows – both ephemeral and eternal. This is no double but a different Venice, an imaginary Venice. Its changing forms and colors are multiplied in unexpected perspectives and astonishing juxtapositions. The tangible is combined pictorially with the abstract. Domes, trees, bell towers, columns, clouds, statues, and chimneys are momentarily caught, in more or less distorted forms, framed by the windows of houses and palaces. The photos are shown in pairs. Each pair has a specific feature shared by the two images. The lines of verse accompanying the photographs are all dedicated to the theme of the mirror and are taken from the Persian divan of Bidel (1644-1720), a poet, philosopher and mystic who lived in India and is one of the truly great writers in Persian literature.
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