At the Galleria dell'Immagine in Rimini, the historical partner city of the Santarcangelo Festival, the photographic retrospective Santarcangelo '80 Revisited. The exhibition rearranges the historic exhibition inaugurated in Rimini in 1981 right in the spaces of the Image Gallery, curated by Uliano Lucas and is enriched by unpublished materials from the archives of the artists and the Museum.
In 1980, six talented Italian photojournalists were commissioned to produce a photojournalistic report on the Santarcangelo Festival, which since its birth has become an eccentric, effervescent phenomenon not only theatrical but also an expression of social behavior and counterculture experiences, an all-round investigation on the shows, the audience and the atmosphere that permeated that season.
Uliano Lucas says: "It was an intoxicating collective party, an explosion of creativity and desire to communicate, the one in which I found myself immersed in July 1980 together with five other photographers - Carla Cerati, Mario Dondero, Maurizio Bizziccari, Maurizio Buscarino, Gian Butturini.
"A multi-handed, funny and passionate story, to be rediscovered fifty years later as an unusual testimony of a particularly happy moment for Italian theater and photography".
The resultant is the fresco of a time and an unrepeatable era in its excesses and innovations.