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Saturday 23rd March 2024. The 24HOURS are open to all. Interested photographers will be able to participate freely, equipped with their own photographic equipment and independent in their travels.
We will meet in Torviscosa for the second photographic outing carried out as part of the PixAround FVG 2024 activities.
The event is also part of the Objective: Company Town. Panzano and Torviscosa from the Twentieth Century to Today which aims to document and enhance the historical events and the social and cultural transformations that led to the creation of the company towns of Panzano and Torviscosa. Two examples of innovative cities designed to welcome company workers and offer them opportunities for leisure and well-being through an independent social system, representing significant examples of urban innovation.
The outing is carried out with the precious support of the Municipality of Torviscosa, the CID-Center of Information and Documentation of Torviscosa and the Friulano Photo Club.
Participation is free
SCHEDULE
Participating photographers will be free to explore other views independently and according to their own inspiration.
9:00 am – Torviscosa, CID of Torviscosa, Piazzale Marinotti Open in maps
We will be welcomed by the Mayor of Torviscosa, Enrico Monticolo, and by the Councilor for Culture Monia Verzegnassi, at the CID of Torviscosa, a conservation center for the city’s historical and artistic heritage. Here we will have the opportunity to explore the historical and photographic archives, the models of the SNIA Viscosa factories and the collections of ceramics and paintings of the Marinotti family.
Afterwards we will visit the workers’ village of Torviscosa, with its yellow houses and dovecotes, architectural structures of the fascist regime and evidence of the urban organization based on professional categories. We will explore the places of leisure and culture of leisure workers, reflecting on the architectural implications of the fascist regime.
Accompanying us throughout the day:
– Andrea Rossato, photographer winner of the “National – Italy Award” at the Sony World Photography Awards 2015 and also awarded at the two subsequent editions, who will provide suggestions and indications to participants for the creation of shots that capture the soul of the cities, best describe the places, the traces of history, people;
– Arch. Lucia Krasovec-Lucas who, as an expert in twentieth-century architecture, will share with us her knowledge of the architecture and urban and social development of the time.
Following – Free shooting
1:00 pm – Group lunch
Subject to availability. Please confirm at [email protected]
2:30 pm – Free afternoon shooting or in the company of guests and mentors Andrea Rossato and Lucia Krasovec-Lucas.
We also suggest visiting the hamlet of Malisana, of Roman origin, which in the twentieth century was transformed to become a village for agricultural workers, a unique case in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
5:00 pm – Greetings and thoughts on the day.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: comfortable sports clothing is required
Objective: Company Town. Panzano and Torviscosa from the Twentieth Century to Today is carried out with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region – Io Sono Friuli Venezia Giulia and the partnerships with the Municipality of Torviscosa, the Monfalconese Cultural Consortium/Territorial Eco-museum, the Friulano Photo Club, AIDIA Trieste – Italian Association of Women Architects and Engineers.
The project also makes use of the consultancy of the architect Lucia Krasovec-Lucas, President of INARCH – National Institute of Architecture Triveneto Section and Founder of AIDIA – Italian Association of Women Architects and Engineers – Trieste Section; Andrea Rossato, professional photographer, the only Italian to be confirmed in three consecutive editions of the Sony World Photography Awards during which the World Photography Organisation awarded him: the “National – Italy Award” in 2015 and the third place prize in the Professional – Art category – Candid in 2016, and named him among the best six photographers in the world in the Professional-Sport category in 2016, becoming the only Italian to manage to confirm himself in three consecutive editions but also in different categories.
Following a precise curatorship, Exhibit Around APS will select the Best Photographers of the 24H Photography.
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Torviscosa located in the center of Lower Friuli, represents one of the twelve foundation cities created in Italy.
It took on its current name in 1937, composed partly of the ancient name “Torre Zuina” and partly derived from Snia Viscosa. The country was built in 1938 by the will of the entrepreneur and president Franco Marinotti and it was the first major industrial initiative in a rather depressed area at the time, whose people were forced to emigrate. Vast areas were reclaimed, soft cane was cultivated for the production of cellulose, the industrial plant was built, and then an urban development continued capable of hosting managers, technicians and workers, homes for employees and workers, social structures, fields sports and anything else necessary to make it livable and autonomous.
Founded city characterized by imposing regime architectural structures, with essential and rational elements, even today it is a lively and dynamic town, embellished by a consolidated and expanded industrial complex with the entry of modern pharmaceutical and energy companies, projected towards a new chemistry and increasingly respectful of the environment.
CID Centre of Information and Documentation, created in the years 1960-62 by Franco Marinotti, its function was to present the most important Italian company in the textile sector. Large exhibition space dedicated to the fascinating history of Torviscosa, beautiful dioramas and excellent captions, for an exhibition that is divided into several floors. Inside are historical and photographic archives, models, ceramic collections, paintings by the Marinotti family and the important structure 708 by Enzo Mari. The model is certainly not to be missed, which highlights the different construction phases of the factory and the city.
