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GASTEL AT MAXXI: 200 LOVE PORTRAITS

You have time until January 3rd to organize a quick trip to Rome and get excited in front of the beautiful exhibition by Giovanni Gastel at MAXXI Museum, curated by Uberto Frigerio and rigorously staged by Piero Lissoni. Among the thousands of photos taken in forty years of fashion and encounters, Gastel chose the two hundred faces that most touched his soul and left an indelible memory. Portraits that demonstrate his great talent, but above all his sensibility. Among these, that of Flavio Lucchini, his mentor.

Giovanni Gastel is always an artist, whether he writes books or poems, takes photos of fashion or people, transforms a realistic image into a dream tracing mysterious lines on a black tablet that gives inputs to the computer. The choice for MAXXI in Rome, among his different artistic expressions that have already had international awards and important exhibitions, this time is focused on portraits. Peaceful, smiling, joyful, playful, thoughtful faces where eyes come inside you. Faces, and so much more. The secret is discovered in the title that Giovanni has provided “The people I like” and it’s clear that he tells the whole truth...

You have time until January 3rd to organize a quick trip to Rome and get excited in front of the beautiful exhibition by Giovanni Gastel at MAXXI Museum, curated by Uberto Frigerio and rigorously staged by Piero Lissoni. Among the thousands of photos taken in forty years of fashion and encounters, Gastel chose the two hundred faces that most touched his soul and left an indelible memory. Portraits that demonstrate his great talent, but above all his sensibility. Among these, that of Flavio Lucchini, his mentor.

Giovanni Gastel is always an artist, whether he writes books or poems, takes photos of fashion or people, transforms a realistic image into a dream tracing mysterious lines on a black tablet that gives inputs to the computer. The choice for MAXXI in Rome, among his different artistic expressions that have already had international awards and important exhibitions, this time is focused on portraits. Peaceful, smiling, joyful, playful, thoughtful faces where eyes come inside you. Faces, and so much more. The secret is discovered in the title that Giovanni has provided “The people I like” and it’s clear that he tells the whole truth.
In the black and white labyrinth Barak Obama and Monica Bellucci, Germano Celant and Bebe Vio, Ettore Sottsass and Isabella Ferrari and many others, architects, sportsmen, musicians, actors, journalists, friends look at you, people who in the short time of a shot gave him their intimacy to him well known through years of friendship or admiration. As Gastel explains: “The choice agreed with the curator Uberto Frigerio was ultimately a sentimental choice. It was a question of selecting between thousands of portraits the 200 dedicated to the exhibition. My affection and the strong feeling I had taking photos of these two hundred determined the choice. Evidently there are many excluded, people I love equally".
Intense as a portrait of Piero della Francesca stands out among them the one of Flavio Lucchini, the first to recognize a photography genius in that twenty-five year old boy who arrived in the editorial office in 1980 with a book of art photos to introduce himself to the most prominent art-director of fashion publishing and present himself for his publications of the time, Donna and Mondo Uomo, which with their success already contrasted the authority of Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue, created by Lucchini himself.
Lucchini was a mentor and a master of many young photographers now famous. Gastel points out "The portrait of the master Flavio Lucchini is a tribute from one of his students who owes him much of the success achieved. There is a mix of gratitude and childlike affection to the man to whom I owe so much and who together with his wife Gisella Borioli have made me who I am. Always and forever thank you Flavio, thanks Gisella".

"Giovanni Gastel. The people I like" at MAXXI Museum. ph Uberto Frigerio e Giovanni Battista Righetti.
Flavio Lucchini for "Giovanni Gastel. The people I like" at MAXXI Museum. ph Uberto Frigerio e Giovanni Battista Righetti.
"Giovanni Gastel. The people I like" at MAXXI Museum. ph Uberto Frigerio e Giovanni Battista Righetti.
"Giovanni Gastel. The people I like" at MAXXI Museum. ph Uberto Frigerio e Giovanni Battista Righetti.

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