Name:
Exhibition Opens: Italy's Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma
Date:
October 8, 2022
Time:
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT
Portrait of Two Riders, Pitigliano, 2016, archival pigment print. Photograph by Gabrielle Saveri.
Event Description:
A new special exhibition, Italy's Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma: Photographs by Gabrielle Saveri, opens to the public at noon on Saturday, October 8, 2022, in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West's John Bunker Sands Photography Gallery.
The current project of Gabrielle Saveri, a photographer, writer, and artist based in California’s Napa Valley, the I Butteri della Maremma photo series, taken from 2013–2019, depicts Italy’s “cowboys,” known as the butteri, a group of native cattle breeders and horsemen and women whose origins are said to date back to Etruscan times. This exhibition features 31 stunning prints and a video, and celebrates this rich Italian tradition and its connections to the American West.
The exhibition remains on exhibit through August 6, 2023.
The current project of Gabrielle Saveri, a photographer, writer, and artist based in California’s Napa Valley, the I Butteri della Maremma photo series, taken from 2013–2019, depicts Italy’s “cowboys,” known as the butteri, a group of native cattle breeders and horsemen and women whose origins are said to date back to Etruscan times. This exhibition features 31 stunning prints and a video, and celebrates this rich Italian tradition and its connections to the American West.
The exhibition remains on exhibit through August 6, 2023.
