Also this year, Credito Valtellinese Group Gallery is hosting exhibitions of young artists. The next event on the agenda is a photo exhibition presenting works by 15 young Italian photographers who pictured Italy's cultural and social landscape on the threshold of the third millennium. Each of them has worked on his own on different subjects, realising a unique series of images.

After Taormina and Modena, the exhibition, produced by the Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, supervision by Filippo Maggia, will be opened on June 5 in Milan, with more exhibits. In fact, in addition to the works realised in 1999, almost all artists decided to present also new works. Francesco Jodice, Carmelo Nicosia and Tancredi Mangano even presented whole series of new works. The event in Milan will be therefore an opportunity to see how and how much these artists have improved in little more than one year.

Andrea Abati and Paolo Bernabini photographed Italy's coasts, re-interpreting the charming natural landscape as the scene of new human adventures - the immigration - and a scene of environmental changes - pollution, building of tourist facilities, ruin of architecture.

Luca Andreoni, Antonio Fortugno and Olivo Barbieri photographed the Italian hinterland from North to South: active, tireless small towns in the north-eastern Po Valley, euphoric and chaotic big stadiums, places where Italian people, both young people and adults of any social class, share their great passion for soccer.

To Daniele De Lonti the river is a scene of history and mythology just like history and the arts is the subject of nocturnal scenes by Luca Campigotto.

Natale Zoppio analyses in depth memories and folk traditions, as well as the suggestive relationship existing between the sacred and the profane.

Pino Musi focused on what remains of the past in architecture. He compared classical architecture with industrial buildings making them similar to each other by means of shades and black colour, which creates quite and unchangeable ancient forms. Antonio Biasucci pictured abstract people, shadows with a clear outline, which mark the syncopated passing of time, the temporal and physical changing of society. Such a subject is evident in photographs by Francesco Jodice, which put in evidence the necessary centrality of men within the fabric of the city.

The sea put together instead of parting in the works by Carmelo Nicosia, which picture the islands, the Egadi, the Eolie, Tremiti and Sardinia. An island, Sicily, is the favourite subject of photographer Enzo Obiso, who gives a fine interpretation of far lands.Vittorio Fossati and Tancredi Mangano put extremes together. Guarene, the Roero, Piedmont's landscape and warm, dry lands where the volcano is.

THE ARTISTS AND THEIR SUBJECTS

Andrea Abati, Accostamenti: il mare
Luca Andreoni e Antonio Fortugno, Tracce - Pianura Padana
Olivo Barbieri, Stadi
Paolo Bernabini, 900 Km
Antonio Biasucci, Intossicazioni
Luca Campigotto, Caput Mundi
Daniele De Lonti, Tevere
Vittore Fossati, Foto che riguardano Guarene e dintorni
Francesco Jodice, Abitudini temporanee
Tancredi Mangano, Aetna
Pino Musi, Metamorfico
Carmelo Nicosia, Isole
Enzo Obiso, Sicilia
Alessandra Spranzi, Occasione unica
Natale Zoppis, Ex Corpore