Brass Mon Amour Photo Exhibit Photolux 2022

The exhibition presents 120 photographs that tell the cinematographic journey of Tinto Brass, as well as unpublished documents, such as scripts, sketches of sets and costumes, polaroid of the auditions, posters, letters, all coming from the personal archive of the Venetian director.

I am an atheist by instinct.
But if God exists and is infinite love,
there is no one closer to God than me.
Tinto Brass

Tinto Brass, his artistic and personal story, are at the center of the Brass mon amour exhibition Villa Bottini in Lucca, from 21 May to 12 June 2022.

The review is one of the most anticipated events of the new edition of Photolux Festival – International Biennial of Photography of Lucca – You can call it love, this year dedicated to the theme of love.

The path winds through 120 unpublished photographs and documents – scripts, sketches of sets and costumes, polaroids of the auditions, posters, letters – from the private archive of Tinto Brass, which lead the visitor to discover the most curious aspects of the making of the films. , of the episodes that characterized his relationship with the actors and memories of his private life.

The photographs tell the story of Brass in his first expressive season, from Who works is lost (1963) to Action (1980). Here the Maestro is portrayed with some of his favorite actors, such as Alberto Sordi, Jean Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Anita Sanders, Tina Aumont, Gigi Proietti, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero.

The time of the liberation of the senses, from The key (1983) to Hotel Courbet (2009), the central moment of the exhibition, is illustrated with the shots of the still photographer Gianfranco Salis, expression of a forty-year artistic partnership with the Maestro.
A particular section of the review, reserved for adults, is dedicated to the most forbidden images.
Alongside them, the film Istintobrass by Massimiliano Zanin will be screened, which Photolux Festival proposes as evidence of the way of making cinema of a director who grew up in the wake of the experience accumulated by Roberto Rossellini and Joris Ivens, as well as by the French Nouvelle Vague, but also from the passion of creating a story in images.
Brass’s cinema is based on the extreme cult of style, in the belief that only form, meaning can give meaning and content to the grotesque aspects of reality.
In the director’s workshop we will discover the man, his closeness to the plots and characters of his films, his immense love for life.
“An exhibition that adds a further moment of reflection on love” – ​​as the festival’s artistic direction committee declares – “If the taboos linked to eros and its representation seem today finally overcome, because the filmography of Tinto Brass continues to represent an insidious anomaly in the panorama of Italian cinema? ”
The event will be an opportunity to present the director’s autobiography written with Caterina Varzi, Tinto Brass. A free passion (Marsilio Editore, 2021).
The new edition of Photolux Festival – Lucca International Biennial of Photography, entitled You can call it Love, avails itself of an artistic direction committee composed of Rica Cerbarano, Francesco Colombelli, Chiara Ruberti and Enrico Stefanelli, and is made up of over 20 exhibitions, hosted in some of the most prestigious places in the center of the Tuscan city, and a series of collateral initiatives such as conferences, workshops, portfolio readings, meetings with the protagonists of international photography.