BERLIN
FUNFAIR
Heinrich Zille
Casa Saraceni, Bologna, 2023
With GAME, the 2023 biennale of Foto/Industria is
dedicated to the theme of the ‘game’.
Photography that documents industry and work, the
basis of each edition of Foto/Industria, this year explores the production of
objects and devices that fall within a vast and solid sector that has been able
to reinvent itself over time to meet changes in taste and habits, and is always
extremely receptive to technological innovation.
Fun, cheerful and crazy: the Berlin fairs of the
years around 1900 provided entertainment. to the inhabitants of a rapidly
expanding and industrialising city, offering a chance to escape from the
reality of exhausting and often repetitive work. Heinrich Zille (1858-1929), well
known as an illustrator and graphic artist, took his photographs in the heart
of this whirlwind of attractions: the fairground rides glittering with lights
and colours, the suspended rafters, the facades of the theatres plastered with
posters, the rubbish, the carriages of the carnies outside the fairgrounds.
DESIGN TEAMFrancesco Librizzi
Anna Carcano
CONSULTANTS
Tosetto Allestimenti
CURATOR
Francesco Zanot
CLIENTFondazione MAST
PHOTOSLuca Capuano