The Rhythm of the Eye: Don Bronstein and the Chicago Jazz Scene 1953–1968

The exhibition presents for the first time in Europe the work of photographer Don Bronstein, a withdrawn yet central figure in postwar American visual culture. Through a selection of photographs dedicated to the Chicago jazz scene of the nineteen-fifties and sixties, the project restores a visual language capable of transforming document into sensory experience. Between proximity, care and intensity, Bronstein's images reveal a practice of looking that, like jazz itself, holds memory and invention together. The exhibition is conceived within the context of miart to give exhibition form to the theme of its thirtieth edition, New Directions.