Phone: +39 015 0991868 | Email: info@palazzogromolosa.it | Corso del Piazzo 22/24, 13900 Biella (BI), Italia
From 6 December 2024 to 18 May 2025
It is to the spirit of the Mountain, to its sacredness, to its landscapes as well as to that of its inhabitants, that Steve McCurry is dedicated. Uplands&Icons, the new major exhibition that we will host from December 6th 2024 to May 18th 2025, also at Palazzo Ferrero.
An exhibition, curated by Biba Giacchetti, which retraces McCurry's travels in the high lands, from Afghanistan to Tibet, from Mongolia to Japan, from Brazil to Burma and then the Philippines, Morocco, Yemen; over 100 images ranging from his first Afghan missions to the most recent stages of his tireless exploration of the world, such as Mongolia and Antarctica. A "listenable" story, in the audio guide available to the public, which is made up of boundless landscapes, marked faces animated by intense gazes, cultivations extorted from the land, symbiosis between peoples and animals which sometimes take on decisive roles to guarantee the human survival.
The undisputed essence of the Uplands dominates everything, with their extreme charm, the dilated time, the silence, a lifestyle that oscillates between danger and resource in places distant by geography, united by a breathtaking beauty that today more than ever wants to be the starting point for a reflection that McCurry never stops pursuing in his photography: respect for what surrounds us, for the still uncontaminated nature, and for the people of the mountains, the few still able to live among its rules, albeit harsh, by tempering or perhaps by a sort of immanent superiority.
The part of the exhibition set up at Palazzo Ferrero is then dedicated to his best-known and most representative photos, his Icons, with extraordinary images, including the famous portrait of the Afghan girl with green eyes, taken in 1984 in a refugee camp in Peshawar, which portrays Sharbat Gula. The photo that has become a global symbol of the condition of refugees is striking for the intense and penetrating gaze of the young woman, to whom McCurry never lacked support, helping her and her family to escape from Afghanistan in 2021.
A section enriched by extensive biographical documentation and a series of videos in which McCurry recounts in first person the maxims that underlie his extraordinary career as a photographer.
The exhibition, organized by the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation, Palazzo Gromo Losa srl, Creation (with Rjma as design partner and Promos as communication partner) in collaboration with the Municipality of Biella, Unesco Creative City, Cultural Center of Biella Piazzo and Palazzo Ferrero, thanks to the support of Banca di Asti, from a project by Orion57, is enriched by a free audio guide available to all visitors in Italian and English and by a catalogue, created exclusively for the Biella exhibition.
SITE DEDICATED TO THE EXHIBITION
Opening times
Wednesday and Thursday 3.00pm-7.00pm
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10.00 am-7.00pm
1 November, 8 December, 26 December, 1 and 6 January, 20, 21 and 25 April, 1 May - from 10.00am -7.00pm
Closed December 25th
Ticket office at Palazzo Gromo Losa
Single entrance ticket for the two exhibition venues
Full price: €13.00 / Reduced: €10.00
Reduced: Under 25, over 65, groups of at least 12 people, university students with card, FAI members, Amici di Castelli Aperti, Plein Air members, CartaEffe Feltrinelli, AIGO Card and AIGO members, Banca di Asti/Biver Banca customers if they use card /ATM (at least 2 people), Nova Coop members, UPBEduca members, City of Biella employees, concert ticket Accademia Perosi Foundation.
Free: Under 6, disabled people + 1 companion, teachers if accompanying a class, Piedmont Valle d'Aosta Museum Subscription, Banca di Asti Museum Voucher, licensed journalists, licensed tourist guides, schools of all levels throughout Italy.
Info and reservations for groups and schools (during/exhibition time): mccurry.biella@coopculture.it
Link to ticket presale www.liveticket.it/mccurrybiella
On the website www.comunitacreativa-biella.it which hosts all the activities of the Biella Comunità Creativa campaign you will have the opportunity to participate in the survey on creativity and have a reduced entry ticket to the exhibition.
Per informazioni
Biella is located roughly halfway between Turin and Milan.
If you arrive by car: Once you have reached the center, we recommend that you go upwards to the village of Piazzo with the suggestive Funicular (you can take it in Piazza Curiel and it is free). Once you have gone up to the Piazzo go left, cross Piazza Cisterna and continue for about 5 minutes on foot to Palazzo Gromo Losa, which you will find on your right. Alternatively, you can leave your car at the "Piazzo Parking" (free) going up from Via Ivrea / Via Mentegazzi and reach the village of Piazzo via the convenient lift inside the parking lot. Palazzo Gromo Losa will be on your right once you reach Corso del Piazzo.
If you arrive by train: From the Biella San Paolo station, take the bus (lines 360 and 900) and get off in Piazza Curiel, then go up to the village of Piazzo with the Funicular (free). Once you have gone up to the Piazzo go left, cross Piazza Cisterna and continue for about 5 minutes on foot to Palazzo Gromo Losa, which you will find on your right.
