GHI-13
Formigine 1988
From Paesaggio italiano; Il profilo delle nuvole
1988
Vintage c-print from negative
36 x 49.3 cm (overall: 41.8 x 50.8 cm)
Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, January 5, 1943 – Roncocesi, February 14, 1992) was an Italian photographer.
He started photographing in 1970 confronting himself with conceptual artists and looking for signs in the natural landscapes and human and also artificial interventions in the landscape itself (advertisements, signs and also maps). Since 1980, urged by Vittorio Savi, he begins to photograph the architecture in the territory. In particular he will work for Savi, Aldo Rossi and Paolo Zermani.
His landscapes are suspended, not realistic and in some ways metaphysical, often deprived of human figures, but never without human intervention on the landscape. His pictures are usually in color. The use of soft and not saturated colors is central to his poetry and is due to his close collaboration with Arrigo Ghi, his printer.
The pictures of the Giorgio Morandi’s atelier are remarkable.
Elisabetta Sgarbi presented at the Venice Festival of 2009, a film about the photographer.
(Translated from: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ghirri )
Luigi Ghirri – The enigma of vision - Repetto Gallery, London
Luigi Ghirri - Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Luigi Ghirri - The Impossible Landscape - Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, NY
La Città, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Project Prints, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
1984: Fotografie da Viaggio in Italia, Milan Triennale
Project Prints, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
1984: Fotografie da Viaggio in Italia, Milan Triennale
Project Prints, Mummery + Schnelle, London
Atlante and Other Selected Works, RECEPTION, Berlin
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
Vintage Prints 1970-1980, RECEPTION, Berlin
Project Prints, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Vintage Prints 1970-1980, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
Fotografie del periodo iniziale, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato
It’s beautiful here, isn’t it…, Aperture Foundation, New York
Ghirri di musica, Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna
Galleria Enrico Fornello, Milan
Verso un'idea di paesaggio, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Kodachrome, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Vintage Prints, Galleria Cà di Frà, Milan
Del Guardare, Settimana della Fotografia Europea, Palazzo Casotti, Reggio Emilia
Luigi Ghirri e l'architettura, Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato
Archivi della memoria, Luigi Ghirri, Studio Trisorio, Rome
Una luce sul muro: Luigi Ghirri nello studio di Morandi, Museo Morandi, Bologna
Still-Life, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
Mare, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Racconti dal paesaggio 1984-2004, Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo
The Side-View of the Clouds, House of Photography, Moscow
Imaginary Geography, Franco Soffiantino Contemporary Art Productions, Turin
Luigi Ghirri's Polaroids, Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan
Atlante, Festival della Filosofia, Galleria Civica, Modena
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Un piede nell'Eden, Scuderie Bentivoglio, Bologna
Atlante, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Vintage Prints 1970-1980, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Antologica 1972-1992, Palazzo Magnani – Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia. Traveled to Hôtel de Sully, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam; and Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome
Opere anni '70, Villa Impero, Bologna
Atlante, Linea di Confine per la Fotografia Contemporanea, Rubiera. Traveled to Galleria Arge Kunst, Bolzano
Polaroid, Galeria Forma Libera, Barcelona
Si chiude al tramonto, I giardini di Caserta, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Luigi Ghirri 70/70, Galleria Photology, Milan
Il profilo delle nuvole, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan
Infinito, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Thinking Through Images: Color Photographs from the 1970s, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Polaroid, Galleria Forma Libera, Turin
Vintage, Galleria Dryphoto, Prato
Polaroid, Galleria Labs, Milan
Paysages intérieurs, Galleria FNAC, Paris
Il profilo delle nuvole, Museo Fioroni, Legnago. Traveled to FotoFest, Houston; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York; Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco and Los Angeles; Visual Studies Workshop Gallery, Rochester; and Italian Cultural Institute, London
Voyage dans les images, Galerie Municipale du Château d'Eau, Toulouse
Vista con camera, Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe, Athens
Luigi Ghirri—Jože Plečnik: Lo spazio urbano a Lubiana, Pinacoteca Alberto Martini, Oderzo
Fotografie, Sale del Niederlassung Berlin-Fasanenstrasse, Berlin
Luigi Ghirri—Aldo Rossi. Things which are only themselves, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Traveled to Galleria Museum, Bolzano; Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia; and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Trompe l'oeil in Réels Fictions Virtuel, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles
Fotografien 1970-1981, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
I luoghi della musica, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Gualtieri
Galleria Elefante Rosso, Piacenza
Vista con camera, Musée Matisse, Nice. Traveled to the Italian Cultural Institute, New York
Fotografie, Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Fotografie, Studio Trisorio, Naples
Vista con camera, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
Atelier Morandi, Galerie Contrejour, Paris. Traveled to Associazione Italo-Francese, Bologna
Versailles, Italian Cultural Institute, Mois de la Photo, Paris
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône
Ad usum dimorae. Collezione Meta Memphis 1988-89, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Topographie-Iconographie,
Optica, Centre for Contemporary Art, Montreal
Topographie-Iconographie, Studio Marconi, Milano. Traveled to Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris, and Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto
Objets trouvés, Pol Galerie, Munich
Polaroid 50 x 60, Galleria Rondanini, Rom
Still Life. Topographie-Iconographie, Light Gallery, New York. Traveled to Galleria Dryphoto, Prato
Vera Fotografia, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
Vera Fotografia, Università di Parma, Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, Parma
Kodachrome, Galerie Contrejour, Paris
Cancellature, Galleria Rondanini, Rome
Colazione sull’erba, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Modena
Atlante, Galleria Documenta, Turin
Fotografie 1970-71, Sette Arti Club, Modena
Fotografie 1970-71, Sette Arti Club, Modena