Press Release
for immediate release. Please announce the
following not for profit event: The Consulate of Italy in Detroit, together with the Vice Consulate of
Italy in Cleveland and the Italian Institute of Culture in Chicago, are
proud to present with the collaboration of Cleveland City Hall - Office
of the Mayor and The Butler Institute of American Art the openings of
the photography exhibition “Il
Barocco e le Feste Religiose in Sicilia” (Sicilian Baroque and
Traditional Festivals) by photographer Giuseppe Leone, on the following
dates:
Opening day hours:
Hours for remainder of exhibit:
City Hall hours The exhibition will run through Sunday, The exhibition will run through The exhibition consists of more than eighty black-and-white and color
images taken by Sicilian photographer Giuseppe Leone. The first part of
the exhibition includes photographs inspired by the Baroque architecture
of Sicily’s Noto Valley, a region declared a World Heritage Site by
UNESCO, which is situated in southeastern Sicily, among the towns
Catania, Siracusa, and Ragusa. The second part of the exhibition features photographs of religious
festivals that take place in Renowned photographer Giuseppe Leone was born in Giuseppe Leone’s main objective from the beginning of his career has been
to offer an intense and extraordinarily rare portrait of his island’s
history through images. His first publication came out thirty years ago,
when he created the illustrations for ethnologist Antonino Uccello’s
“La civilità Dates:
Location:
Admission:
Free of charge Dates:
Location:
The
Admission:
Free of charge
contact
information: Vice
Consulate of Tel. (216)
861-1585
Tel. (330) 743-1107 Fax (216)
861- 6304
web site:
www.butlerart.org
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