Milan, Palazzo Reale
October 3, 2024 to January 26, 2025
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The guided tour of the Ugo Mulas exhibition in Milan recounts an inseparable relationship between one of the most important international photographers of the post-World War II period and the place where he chose to live, making the shots of Milan the pivotal theme of the first major retrospective that the city of Milan dedicates to the great photographer.
The exhibition hosts more than 200 photographs, presented with a never-before-seen slant, illustrating the link between Ugo Mulas and Milan, starting with shots that portray the protagonists of the world of art, design, fashion, industry and labor, known in the vibrant Milan of those years: Mulas attended the Brera Academy, lived the evenings at the legendary Jamaica bar in Brera, a meeting place for intellectuals and artists, from Lucio Fontana to Allen Ginsberg.
A keen observer of reality and a creative and determined autodidact, Ugo Mulas launched a brilliant career, well hinged on what he believed to be the essential criteria for good photography: critical and conscious witness to society, a sensitive and penetrating approach that represents more than the mere capture of the subject, a curious and incessant working practice.
Beginning in the mid-1950s, Ugo Mulas began to take photographs of the great artists of the time and their studios, even empty ones, dwelling on the places, details and objects present, synthesizing and telling untold stories, in which the photographer himself participates in the moment he is immortalizing: often considered as “The Artists’ Photographer”, Mulas in fact often intends to take part in his shots, making himself a participant in what is happening and so as not to remain just a spectator on the sidelines of the action.
The guided tour of the Ugo Mulas exhibition in Milan highlights the importance and great contribution of the artist to the photographic art, telling of a master transversal to all preconstituted genres, capable of delving with the same intensity into very different themes, always celebrating his Milan.
Tickets: Full 27.00€/Under 18 23.00€
https://www.palazzorealemilano.it/mostre/loperazione-fotografica