SHOOTING TEXTILES Exhibition

Special event dedicated to the memory of Angelo Vasino

ROSSANO B. Farriers. "PHOTOGRAPHING THE TEXTILE"

Saturday 14 January 2023, at 4.00 pm


Event dedicated to the memory of Angelo Vasino


PHOTOGRAPHING THE TEXTILE

Rossano B. Blacksmiths

award-winning international photographer and filmmaker


Inauguration of the art photography and film exhibition

and conferment ceremony of the

"Navetta Arcobaleno" Award from the Textile Museum

Free admission


Courtesy of Angelo Vasino S.p.A, from 14 to 28 January, in the Sala della "Porta del Tessile" in Chieri (via Santa Chiara 10/A), several films projected in a loop act as a counterpoint to the 15 photographs that return what the artist's eye knew captured in the prestigious Chieri textile factory, which commissioned him a project ad hoc.

Through the lens, a particular allure emanates from the colored cones that feed a warping machine, threads that wrap around a beam or flow between the healds of today's looms, where young and old hands of expert operators breathe new life into an ancient art but in the present. The latest generation of looms and warpers also shine, immortalized in the Chieri plant today led by Giuseppe and Renato Vasino, the latter a director of the Foundation.

The Foundation has recently completed a training project to start work in the textile industry promoted by the Cotton Textile Association of the Turin Industrial Union.

Chieri is not the "first love" in the parable of textiles experienced by Rossano B. Maniscalchi, who has also produced a valuable publication on Stefano Ricci's Antico Setificio Fiorentino. It boasts advertising campaigns for well-known fashion houses, including Dior, Yves Sant Laurent, Moschino, Calvin Klein, Guess and Levi's, as well as collaborations with luxury fashion designers and entrepreneurs such as Giorgio Armani, Ermanno Scervino and Salvatore Ferragamo. Chieri, however, leaves its mark on the maturity of Rossano B. Maniscalchi for the experience in the "cradle of textiles", where he is awarded, in memory of the founder of Angelo Vasino, the "Navetta Arcobaleno" Award of the Textile Museum, reserved to artists who distinguished themselves in combining multimedia languages with the textile arts, "for the masterful rendering of the world of textiles and fashion through photography and film, new media with which he was able to grasp and interpret materials, structures and aesthetic values of the weaving process as well as the creation of designer clothes, restoring their material reality and workmanship, but at the same time enhancing their value, charm and refinement”.

Antonella Giordano, Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Chieri, and Renato Vasino, CEO of Angelo Vasino SpA will intervene at the award ceremony

«With this start-of-the-year event dedicated to excellence - comments Melanie Zefferino, President of the Chierese Foundation for Textiles and the Textile Museum - the Foundation is reinforcing the bond with its Founding Members and the local community of reference shedding light, through art, on contemporary textile production in one of its best declinations».

ANGELO POTTY (1916-2009)

He founded Vasino & Ciaudano in partnership with his brother-in-law in 1955, with two looms, a warper and two workers, creating a small weaving mill which he began to export to Europe and overseas.

In 1973 the company was enriched by the printing house in Cambiano and, thanks to the support of the founder of the sons Renato and Giuseppe, the Vasino reality became free internationally and became a reference point for Made in Italy in the world.

In 2011, the production of fabrics for fashion was joined by that of furnishing fabrics.

Today the Angelo Vasino S.p.A continues to evolve, to project itself into the future without losing its roots with the entry into the company of the third generation of the family with Giovanni, Valentina and Stefano. A future marked by innovation made up of multi-year investments in machinery, in a rigorous path of sustainability and growth in the presence on the Italian market and alongside brand Italian and international in the world.

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    Rossano B. Maniscalchi 

    con il Sindaco di Chieri, Alessandro Sicchiero

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    Rossano B: Maniscalchi con

    Renato Vasino

    Melanie Zefferino e

    Alessandro Sicchiero

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    Renato Vasino e

    Rossano B. Maniscalchi

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    Rossano B. Maniscalchi con Melanie Zefferino, Renato Vasino, Giuseppe Vasino e Valentina Vasino

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    Renato Vasino con Laura Vaschetti e Melanie Zefferino

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    Il Sindaco di Chieri, Alessandro Sicchiero e l'Assessore Roberto Quattrocolo fra il pubblico in sala.

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    La premiazione di Rossano B. Maniscalchi. Il pubblico in sala.

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ROSSANO B. Farriers

Born in Florence and particularly active in the United States, Rossano B. Blacksmiths he is a photographer and film maker who has distinguished himself on the international contemporary scene as one of the most creative and versatile directors and artists. He is distinguished by a marked aesthetic sense and the ability to capture the meaning of things, but also the soul of people, so much so that his photographic portraits of Nobel Prize winners are famous, including Rita Levi Montalcini, Dario Fo, Barak Obama, Rigoberta Menchù and the 14th Dalai Lama. He has also immortalized celebrities such as Tilda Swinton, Sandrine Bonnaire, Helmut Berger, Alain Delon, Wim Wenders, Fernando Botero, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag and others.

His photographs have been published in specialized magazines and newspapers all over the world.

Honorary academic senator of the Medici International Academy in Florence, in his thirty-year career he has exhibited in prestigious venues and received several awards for photography - the Photographer's Forum Magazine Award of Excellence (1993, 1994), the USA Magazine Special Award (1994 ), the Best in Show Award from the Visual Art Center of Northwest Panama City (Florida, 1994), the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award at the XII International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence (2019). These awards are added to the awards won in the film industry: Touch Me was judged Best International Fashion Film at the Arts4Peace Awards (2018) as well as being awarded for Best Director at the Best Istanbul Film Festival (2021); Denying Beauty won the Best Director Award at the La Jolla Fashion Film Festival (2019) and the Best Cinematography Award at the Istanbul Film Festival (2022); Anyway received the Best Director award at the Best Istanbul Film Festival (2020) then several nominations and the awards for “Best Cinematography” at the International Fashion Film Festival in La Jolla, at the Style Experimental Film Festival in Los Angeles (2022), and at the Croatia Film Festival (2022). With The Ring, Maniscalchi was awarded “Best Director” at the Istanbul Film Festival while The Key to Heaven was the “Best Shorts Worldwide“ at the Film Miami Festival, the best film at the Bucharest Film Festival, and winner of the award for best screenplay, “Best Narration”, at the International Fashion Film Festival in La Jolla.

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