MAP_PhotoPastel

03 Apr 2026

MAP – Modulnova Art Project is a cultural project that celebrates creativity and beauty through the encounter of art, architecture and design in a perspective of exchange and sharing. For the first edition of the project, Modulnova has chosen to explore the universe of art photography, an expressive form capable of interpreting contemporaneity through the gaze (and the lens) of those who manage to capture and crystallize in time an image, a place, an emotion.

Art excites, inspires, stimulates reflection.

Never as in this historical and cultural moment that lives of contaminations, Art and Design merge, feeding each other in a continuous evolution. It is in this dialogue between expressive forms the essence of MAP, which thus becomes a ground for experimentation and encounter, the search for new perspectives and the transmission of values.

“The PhotoPastel series,” Claudio Composti explains, “emancipates itself from the simple photographic nature of the initial shot, precisely because of the hand-painted intervention with which Patrizia reinterprets reality and transforms it into an authentic mental image.

Those places become his idealized projection of the architectures that have marked Italian history and represent its tradition of craftsmanship and aesthetics.” Patrizia Mussa

Between

imagination

and reality

“I use photography to observe, to reflect, to unveil,” Patrizia Mussa comments, “photography is at bottom a kind of reminder, of notes, of thoughts, of reflections of one’s own time that can be re-read in deferred ways and times. In the chaos of life I find a tormented peace in the solitude of places, of unfrequented landscapes. The images I collect are the witnesses of that suspension, with them I express the desire for a silent longing for proximity.” Patrizia Mussa

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Patrizia MussaProtagonist of MAP 2023, Patrizia Mussa, a photographer and anthropologist from Turin, involved in the project by Claudio Composti with PhotoPastel, a series of shots dedicated to important Italian buildings, from theaters to aristocratic palaces to Baroque churches, whose architecture, revisited with the intervention of hand-coloring, is transformed into imaginary places, suspended in time, in which dream and poetry coexist. Patrizia Mussa Lives and works between Turin and Paris. Graduated in Philosophy with a specialization in Cultural Anthropology in Milan, in the 1970s she worked in advertising as producer, cinematographer and director of documentaries. Since 1985 she has settled in Turin, working as picture editor for Studio Livio and Pacific Press Service in Tokyo; she produces photo shoots for important architecture and interior design magazines, collaborating with publishing groups such as Condè Nast and Taschen. Architectural, interior and landscape photography are the fundamental fields of his professional activity
and research. His photographs have been exhibited and are part of important museum collections, such as the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Museum of Photography in Moscow, and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, as well as being in prestigious public and private collections in Europe, the United States, and the Far East.