Marco Delogu, Edoardo Albinati
Captivity
Marco Delogu
[..All the photos were taken in different sections of the Rebibbia jail in Rome, between Autumn 1997 and Spring 2003. However Rebibbia in these photos is not easily identifiable, it is simply a detention centre, one of a community of fifty thousand in Italy and millions throughout the world whose inhabitants live within a web of imposed and self-imposed rules and regulations, that are indecipherable to those who do not know this experience. Beyond the rules are men and women just trying to survive.
I was interested in the relation between people and their environment. Over time I have come to focus on either the people or their environment. Concutelli had burned his beard during an accident with a gas burner and had shaved it for the first time in years. Notorious and anonymous figures alike posed patiently for me. A Sardinian friend helped me but did not want to be photographed. The women were much warmer and more colourful. The transsexuals kept asking to be photographed a second time..]
Marco Delogu was born in Rome, where he still lives and works, in 1960.
His research focuses on portraits of groups of people who share common experiences and languages. In recent years the main focus of his works has been nature, and hence his attention has shifted, in various manners, from man to his surroundings.
He has published over twenty books, and has held exhibitions in Italy and abroad in many art galleries and museums.
In autumn 2008 he had the big retrospective exhibition entitled “Noir et Blanc” at Accademia di Francia Villa Medici in Rome.
In 2011 he had retrospecitve show in Moscow at Multimedia Art Museum, and exhibited at the Venice Biennial (Arsenale) and at the Lyon biennial.
Edoardo Albinati was born in Rome in 1956. He has published several books of poetry and fiction, including “Il polacco lavatore di vetri”, “Orti di guerra”, “19”, “Sintassi italiana”, “Il ritorno”, “Svenimenti”.
His most recent work is “Tuttalpiù muoio” (Fandango libri) written with Filippo Timi.
Since 1994 he has taught in the Rebibbia penitentiary in Rome. This experience provided the material for his work “Maggio selvaggio” (Mondadori).
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