MAX LEITZ INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY

26 November 2022 - 8 January 2023 Galleria SARP

How our landscape change ? How much humans intervene within the social environment.

The exhibition deals with the theme of Sicilian industrial archeology analyzing how abandoned buildings are testimony of political and social changes, but how the rubble of these buildings are testimony of transformation of the territory and possible reflection of reuse of structures. After studying at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in the late 80s, Max Leitz was instrumental in creating a new language in contemporary photography, a pioneer who promoted the ambitious possibilities of capturing the infinite time of industrial landscapes and connecting them with rigorous social and environmental inquiry. 
His rigorous, clinical and spaced investigations of public spaces, landscapes and structures have contributed to a new quest to take photos in contrast to the Italian school of photography.