Ricordé. Un archivio, un paese, una mostra fotografica

Venue: Zizzola – Casa dei braidesi, – – (CN). Address: Zizzola – Casa dei braidesi, – – (CN), Strada Fey, 12042 Bra, CN Bra, in the villa called the Zizzola that dominates the city, hosts the exhibition “Ricordé. An archive, a town, a photographic exhibition” This exhibition celebrates the rediscovery and recovery of the Studio Bruno Risso photographic archive: over 30.000 images, including glass plates, negatives and prints, re-emerge after decades to return faces, places and stories of the city. The exhibition route offers a selection of images, carefully hand-printed in the darkroom by the curator. The installation is structured around an imposing family-tree sculpture by the international artist Giovanni Borgarello, from which printed portraits on glass are suspended to evoke the numerous recovered plates: a true city memory tree. Also on display is the wooden optical bench from the late nineteenth century, through which these photographic portraits on glass were taken. The exhibition is organised into four main sections: • The recovery: photographic documentation of the six years of work on the archive, from the discovery in canti