Exhibition in Italy by Francesco Cianciotta “Naga”: The colors and the smiles of Ethiopia, the tradition told with smartphone

January 16, 2015, Italy (La Republica – Google Translation) — Naga, in the Oromo language, means peace. It is the typical greeting of the population of Ethiopia south central. In Oromia by the Italian NGO Perigeo that, on the tenth anniversary of its foundation, has commissioned a report to the Italian photographer Francesco Cianciotta. A series of shots that alternate the colors vivid and saturated of work and daily life to long shots of a land barren and evocative. Canciotta 90s worked with disposable cameras, experimenting with instruments ‘pret a’ porter ‘that led him on the way up to the smartphone and digital postproduction’ exaggerated filter apps like Instagram that used to highlight and counteract the activity and the smile of the inhabitants of this land to tell the tradition with the instrument that is perhaps the cultural antipode.

Perigee carries out international cooperation and peacebuilding. Opera in Central and East Africa through the creation of networks and partnerships with the authorities, aimed at promoting economic growth. It is in this context that places the project museums for peace: ethnographic centers and cultural centers, which become engines thrusters exchange initiatives, promotion of dialogue and mutual understanding among the various ethnic groups involved.

The exhibition Naga, presented by Glenda Cinquegrana The Studio, will be inaugurated on January 20 in the space of Chiamamilano via Pond 2 and will remain open until February 1

(edited by Matteo Marini)

Francesco Cianciotta (2014)
Internal Bajaj Robe, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’
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Courtesy perigee NGO and the artist.

Source: La Republica

Market in Kofele, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Market in Robe, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Robe, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Road in Kofele, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Sanetti Plateau, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Coffee Kofele, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Step on the river, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Bus station in Robe, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’

Village of Mount Bale, from the series NAGA ‘NAGA’