Ghirri exhibitions

Ghirri Research Project 2013-2015 – British School at Rome Conference 2013 – Arturo Carlo Quintavalle – ‘Luigi Ghirri e la ricerca concettuale in Italia e negli Stati Uniti.’

 

Jacopo Benci gives a talk at the Barbican exhibition – Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age

Jacopo Benci gives a talk at the Barbican exhibition – Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age

    Luigi Ghirri installation images, Barbican Art Gallery, 25 Sept 2014 – 11 Jan 2015, © Chris Jackson / Getty Images On 11 December 2014, Jacopo Benci gave a gallery presentation of Ghirri’s work included in the Barbican exhibition ‘Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age’ (25 September 2014–11 January 2015): I […]

Virtual Exhibition – Cesare Ballardini – Il centro del mondo, 2008-2012

Virtual Exhibition – Cesare Ballardini – Il centro del mondo, 2008-2012

These images are part of a work called The centre of the world. They are photos taken in Boncellino, a hamlet near Bagnacavallo, in the Ravenna Province, where my uncle spent much of his adolescence. Despite being a small village, it has remained for him one of the most significant places in his life. I […]

Part II: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

Part II: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

Having detected a powerful strain of the uncanny in Ghirri’s work in Polignano, I began to ponder my own work done there. After a year and a half, I have just finished a series based on my stay there. When I showed the series to an Italian film-maker friend – he made a one word […]

Part I: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

Part I: Nancy Goldring-The Uncanny Seascapes of Luigi Ghirri

©Luigi Ghirri—‘Cala Paura, Polignano’ (1987) ©Nancy Goldring-Photograph, Polignano, 2012 © Nancy Goldring-Photograph, Polignano, 2012 Last year just before leaving Polignano al Mare in Puglia where I had gone to draw, I realized I hadn’t visited the one small museum in town – the Pino Pascali. Among the works in the collection I was surprised to […]

William Guerrieri – La fotografia dei ‘luoghi’ e gli autori degli anni Novanta

William Guerrieri – La fotografia dei ‘luoghi’ e gli autori degli anni Novanta

  La fotografia dei ‘luoghi’ e gli autori degli anni Novanta William Guerrieri La fotografia degli anni Ottanta è stata definita giustamente, pur con le variabili individuali di ciascun autore, come la fotografia dei ‘luoghi’. Si è detto più volte del senso di appartenenza al paesaggio dei fotografi di quel decennio, che si è espresso […]

Instituto Moreira Salles – Luigi Ghirri: Pensare per immagini/Thinking images.

  With a selection of Luigi Ghirri’s photographs montaged in between reflections on his work, these thoughts provide an overview of his techniques and style while at the same time drawing attention to his aim of understanding the world through a focus on the banal as opposed to the creation of a masterpiece. An excellent video from IMS! (Video published […]

‘Grande Successo’ / ‘Great Success’.

Emiliano-Romagnoli have reported on the great success of the Luigi Ghirri exhibition in Brazil (‘Luigi Ghirri. Pensar Por Imagens.’). The exhibition has now moved from the Insituto Moreira Salles in Säo Paolo to the Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro, with reports in the magazine Veja Säo Paulo and the newspaper O’Globo highlighting the […]

Some recent Ghirri exhibitions (2013)

Some recent Ghirri exhibitions (2013)

In 2013 the MAXXI (Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo) in Rome held a major retrospective of Ghirri’s work, curated by Francesca Fabiani, Laura Gasparini and Giuliano Sergio: ‘Luigi Ghirri, ‘Pensare per immagini’’ (23 April-27 October 2013): http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/.     The MAXXI Ghirri retrospective is currently being exhibited in Brazil, thanks to the Instituto […]

Speakers at the Conference (apart from Prof. Quintavalle). Photograph by Silvia Stucky.

BSR conference 9 October 2013

  Conference on Luigi Ghirri at the The British School at Rome (http://www.bsr.ac.uk/), 9 October 2013. The first event of the British Academy-funded project was a conference entitled ‘How to think in images? Luigi Ghirri and photography’ / ‘Come pensare per immagini? Luigi Ghirri e la fotografia’, which was held at The British School at […]

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