Marco Delogu
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I spent the spring of 1994 seeking the leading figures in an episode of 20th-century Italian history. During the 1930s entire families of peasants from the Veneto region emigrated south of Rome to drain the Pontine Marshes and founded villages named after the battles won during the First World War.
Thirteen years later I extended the project to encompass another tale of emigration to Lazio: the Sardinian shepherds who brought their flocks to Maremma during the 1950s, and who have since seen their story repeat itself in the form of the shepherds from Eastern Europe who started migrating to the area in the 1990s. I then returned to the Pontine Marshes to photograph the new generations of peasants from Veneto and the northeast, and the recent immigrants from countries outside the European Union.
Marco Delogu
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.
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