The exhibition, inaugurated on May 8th and open to the public until June 30th, is organized by the Municipality of Ferrara, in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, , the one Ferrara Arte,, the one Ferrara Arte,y, and with the support of VVisit Emilia-Romagna and the egione Emilia-Romagna.

The exhibition represents a powerful and intimate journey into the universe of Vasco Rossi, through the lens of one of the greatest photographers of contemporary music. The images on display recount over twenty years of encounters between Harari and the rocker from Zocca, capturing not only the icon, but also the man, captured between the stage and everyday life, between pure energy and suspended moments.

The photographs are the fruit of a long artistic partnership: as Harari explained, they stem from five studio sessions (September 1985, February-March 1987, May 1990), two taken between Zocca and Bologna (March 1987), one in a recording studio (February 1998), and numerous concerts between 1985 and 2007: “An enormous amount,” added Guido Harari, “considering Vasco’s proverbial idiosyncrasy for the camera.”

“Many of these images were created for the cover and promotion of ‘C’è chi dice no,'” Harari continued. “Whether you capture him away from the spotlight and his own legend, or observe him on a stage, capable like few others of ‘playing’ his audience, Vasco’s eyes always strike you. They speak for him, without mediation, like some of his brilliant maxims.” One of these, written by the Komandante on the wall of the photography studio at the end of a long marathon on set, reads: “The sky? Let’s leave the sky to the sparrows.”

Portrait of Guido Harari: Andrea Forlani