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Stations ... and stations ... and stations

Like medieval courts: a duke facing a fool, ladies simply sitting and waiting (for what?)

And behind them a captain of the guards watching.

And like the architecture of Antonio Sant'Elia, towers and domes of the new glass Futurism.

Or as the crowd pours on to the London Bridge of T. S. Eliot, that crowd of which Dante said 'yes, long treats, that I would not have believed that so much death had been destroyed'.

The stations are now in time, all the time and beyond, they have inherited it and foreshadowed it.

The stations also imagine, on that train, there is to whisper, which South American or Indian novel will take place? Convoys similar to the train on the water by Paul Delvaux (sensations, illuminations, visual, now sound percussion).


Nineteen photographers for these epicenters, crossroads, joints, fixed everywhere, in the geographic and physical world: the gestures, first of all, the silhouettes, the postures. And the epigrammatic faces (if Orazio, the simplest of the Latin poets, crossed them, what would he say?)

Stations like immense pavilions of the Vanity Fair (vanitas vanitatum) called life: again, who are they, where do they go, what are they thinking, and what are they dreaming of? Those figures almost asleep.

Stations like spaceships within psychic spaces, the movement that photographs freeze is not still, is only a second of the continuum that is space-time.

And I think with pride also to the black and white stations of our Neo-realism, companies of hungry comedians climbed on the train and went, they went ... again, where? The question you have asked yourself, authors of this impressive exhibition, is perhaps this? ... such and such to your frame that guards us forever ... for memory, affection, agreement.

And supreme nostalgia.

Roberto Agostini





stazioni... e stazioni... e stazioni 

Come le corti medievali: si fronteggiano un duca e un buffone, delle dame semplicemente sedute in attesa (di che cosa?).

E dietro loro un capitano delle guardie che sorveglia.

E come le architetture di Antonio Sant'Elia, torri e cupole del nuovo Futurismo di vetro.

O come si riversa sul London Bridge di T. S. Eliot, la folla di cui Dante diceva “sì lunga tratta, che non avrei creduto che morte tanta n'avesse disfatta”.

Le stazioni sono ormai nel tempo, tutto il tempo e oltre, l'hanno ereditato e lo prefigurano.

Le stazioni anche immaginano, su quel treno, c'è da bisbigliare, quale romanzo sudamericano o indiano avverrà? Convoglio uguale al treno sull'acqua di Paul Delvaux (sensazioni, illuminazioni, visive, ormai sonore percussioni).

Diciannove fotografi per questi epicentri, crocicchi, snodi, fissati in ogni dove, nel mondo geografico e fisico: i gesti, prima di tutto, le siluette, le posture. E i volti epigrammatici (se Orazio, il più semplice dei poeti latini, li incrociasse, cosa ne direbbe?)

Stazioni come immensi padiglioni della fiera delle vanità (vanitas vanitatum) che si dice vita: di nuovo, chi sono, dove vanno, cosa stanno pensando, e cosa sognano, quelle figure quasi addormentate?

Stazioni come navicelle entro spazi psichici, il movimento che le fotografie congelano, non è fermo, è solo un secondo del continuum che è spazio-temporale.

E penso con orgoglio anche alle stazioncine in bianco e nero del nostro Neorealismo, compagnie di comici affamati salivano in treno e andavano, andavano... ancora, dove? La domanda che vi siete fatti, o autori di questa impressionante mostra, non è questa? ... tale e quale al vostro fotogramma che ci custodisce per sempre... per memoria, affetto, consonanza.

E suprema nostalgia.


Roberto Agostini

 3 - Kevin Lim Kuala Lumpur, 2017
4-PeppeDiDonato“Antwerpen-Centraal”,Antwerpen,Julie28th 2018
5 - Batsceba Hardy “Christmas” Berlin, 2015
6 - Fabio Balestra “Wink” Arma di Taggia, 2017
7 - Gerri McLaughlin “Across The Lonely Sea” I, Bahnhof SBB, Basel, 2013-2018
8 - Mark Guider “Let Me In” Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 29th 2014
9 - Niklas Lindskog “This is the Way” London, June 28th, 2018
10 - Davide Dalla Giustina “Roma Termini”, Roma, July 2018
11 - Robert Bannister “Hurry Back Soon” York, England, 2018
12 - Stefania Lazzari “Distant Thoughts ” Milano, September, 2018
13 - Siddhartha Mukherjee Rotterdam, 2018
14 - Michael Kennedy “Seoul on Time” Seoul, 2017-18
15 - Orlando Durazzo “Maybe Tomorrow” Torino, March 3th, 2017
16 - Karlo Flores Hong-Kong, sept 19th 2016
 17 - Jinn Jyh Leow “Musings” Penang, Malaysia, December 7th 2015
18 - Marion Junkersdorf "Back to Back, Face to Face", Berlin 2017
19 - Alexander Mercado Montreal, 2018
20 - Lukasz Palka “Hand” Tokyo, Juny 18th 2018
22 - Alphan Yilmazmaden, “Kadıköy-Eminönü İskelesi” Istanbul, 2018
23 - Alphan Yilmazmaden “Eminönü Bus Station” Istanbul, 2018
24 - Gerri McLaughlin “Across The Lonely Sea” II Bahnhof SBB, Basel, 2013-2018
25 - Michael Kennedy “Seoul on Time” Seoul, 2017-18
26 - Siddhartha Mukherjee Rotterdam, 2018
27 - Kevin Lim Kuala Lumpur, 2018
28 - Fabio Balestra “Delayed Train” Arma di Taggia, 2018
29 - Niklas Lindskog “Tottenham Court Road” London, June 28th 2018.
30 - Robert Bannister “All Aboard” Doncaster England, 2017
31 - Lukasz Palka “Yellow Line” Tokyo, October 14th 2017
32 - Mark Guider “Colors” Montreal, Canada, June 4th 2015
33 - Marion Junkersdorf “The Lady with The Dog” Wroclaw, Poland, 2017
34 - Jinn Jyh Leow “Commute” Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 27th 2018
35 - Orlando Durazzo “Do not cross” Torino, Julie 2th 2018
36 - Davide Dalla Giustina “Roma Termini” Roma, July 2018
37 - Stefania Lazzari “Situations in the Station” Milano, Settembre 2018
38 - Alexander Mercado Montreal, 2018
39-PeppeDiDonato“Antwerpen-Centraal”Antwerpen,Julie28th 2018
40 - Karlo Flores Manila, January 19th 2017
41 - Batsceba Hardy “Downbound Train” Berlin, Juanuary 29 th, 2016
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