{"id":13112,"date":"2024-09-25T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=13112"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T08:36:12","slug":"ugo-mulas-exhibition-milan-lina-sotis","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/ugo-mulas-exhibition-milan-lina-sotis\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how I remember Ugo Mulas: as told by Lina Sotis"},"content":{"rendered":"I remember Ugo as a handsome, gloomy man, whom you would have liked to have looked at you. Those were different times, men still looked. And in Milan, but clearly also in the other capitals of the world, Ugo was considered the man who looked most deeply, most masterfully, most darkly. He showed others, with his photographs, the things that were there but could not be seen: Ugo Mulas was the most famous photographer of those years. But he didn\u2019t look famous, he didn\u2019t put on airs at all. He was a man of few words, but that was also his charm. He had a beautiful wife, Nini. He brought her out every once in a while, not always. He had a sister who followed in his footsteps, Maria. And she followed him with imaginative deference, as if Mulas couldn\u2019t help but be a symbol, the symbolic name of photography.<br \/>\r\n<h2>LINA SOTIS TALKS ABOUT UGO MULAS<\/h2><br \/>\r\nIn fact, in an era in which photographers were fashionable \u2012 now it\u2019s no longer like that: there are no geniuses anymore, there are simply lots of amateurs who take pictures everywhere and in any case with their cell phones, and almost always for their own selfishness \u2012, back then photographers were super. Back then it was Helmut Newton, Giovanni Gastel, Oliviero Toscani, but Ugo was different from everyone else, because he didn\u2019t do fashion, he didn\u2019t do frivolous things, he didn\u2019t do catchy things, he didn\u2019t do advertising things. Ugo only did culture, seriousness, intellect.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe photograph in the catalogue that struck me the most and reminded me of those times, because ultimately it\u2019s a symbol, is a photograph of Lucio Fontana while he was doing his famous cut. Here\u2019s the pair, it was perfect. He, photographing Lucio\u2019s cut, photographed what could be behind that cut, everything you can imagine. He photographed possibility and the other gave possibility, to those who looked at him, to imagine what he wanted. There, that was Ugo Mulas.<br \/>\r\n<h2>UGO MULAS AND MILAN<\/h2><br \/>\r\nImagine the best seeing sludge, imagine the incredible seeing a sulky face, imagine an era seeing a lively and popular neighbourhood like Brera from the tables of his famous Jamaica, the bar Ugo loved back then. There are lots of photographs of Ugo at Jamaica, he captures the tables, he captures mamma Lina, he captures little Michela, he captures the angry faces of the time, he captures their clothes, back then it was fashionable to be poor, for goodness sake not to be ostentatiously rich, for goodness sake not ostentatiously fashionable, for goodness sake different from the middle class, even if everyone would have denied their birth a little, whether upper or lower middle class.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThen Ugo got sick, he got sick with a difficult disease, a disease that he treated in a hospital in New York. I went to visit him with some other friends and he came towards us with an IV pole and for the first time he smiled, he smiled in a friendly way, he didn&#8217;t smile in a gloomy way, he smiled at what he had always underestimated, what he didn\u2019t look for in his photographs \u2012 there he looked for the truth, the shadow, the spite, the contempt \u2012, he smiled like a tender man, a man who wants to be normal, a man who is happy with the affection of his friends. Milan loved him. We miss you a lot, Ugo, a lot, but with you your era has also gone. 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