Once upon a time the working class, and everything seemed easier.
Easier to understand, because the "class", with its alleged characteristics of homogeneity, with its precise role (especially in the imagination of the left), simplified the framework of the possible choices and the resulting prospects: pro or against the class, revolution versus conservation.
The photographic image of this historical period is not remote (as we are reminded my friend Andrea Ranieri) was a photograph of a parade or a square filled with workers who show, in which the central element is the group (the class) rather than individuals. Even with Ciro Quaranta, for many years worker himself, the worker, the artisan, the farmer, a shepherd, a musician, the fisher is no longer the expression of a class and become people, ie men with individual identity and personal, and therefore with a history: their personal history, the history of the context in which they move and the time which they live.
You want to interview and get to know those people framed, even when you are unable to grasp the features.
Because those people in the photos are not the appendage of a landscape or a car, but always at the core.
This is an important occasion Ciro Quaranta offers us reflect on the stories that people are told and through their faces and their work.
And they are very rich history of humanity, knowledge and ability to exist. Stories of thousands of years old, such as artisans or farmers or fishermen.
Stories, in other cases of modern excellence, or the stories of those who create the extraordinary ceramic Grottaglie, or of those who built the great works of engineering Belleli, or the wind turbines of Vestas, up to the stories of those who is immersed in those wonders (of technology and relationships) that make up the Alenia.
The transition from the classroom to Ciro Quaranta person who helps us to do, commits us terribly closely on other fronts today, they show us the other side of the work: that of the fatal accidents that happen on a shocking, that of health risks, the ridiculous salaries and trampled the rights of working people and works well.
It commits us even more as people are represented here express many images in strength, security, serenity. Perhaps because we know what is important and vital work for the person.
"I do not know what happiness is, but doing a job you like and do it well, is the closest thing that" makes the proud working-class Faussone say Primo Levi, the protagonist of his novel "The key to star. " Anyone who has done his job very well know how true this is.
With this volume the project ARSMAC (Arsenale Mediterranean Contemporary Arts) in the province shows a direct and explicit its current value, social and cultural life, and this we are happy.
With Ciro Quaranta for the gift of his images. Thanks to Nicola Aurilio, CEO of Alenia Composite, a person in another role that embodies the same passion and the pride of Faussone and sensitivity which we have to realize this project.
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