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€ 3.000 - 4.000
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€ 2.000
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At auction on Wednesday 18 June 2025 at 16:00
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Vintage chromogenic print
cm 30 x 40 (cm 24,4 x 34,5 picture) | 11.8 x 15.7 in. (9.6 x 13.5 in. picture)
If Luigi Ghirri is one of the most beloved authors in the world of collecting this is due to his original gaze and on that only apparent linearity that characterizes his works. His ability to switch from small 35 mm to medium format, to alternate negative films, slides, Polaroids always remaining faithful to the delicate chromaticisms of a very recognizable use of color make him a photographer more focused on philosophical reflection than on technical disputes. As the Modena City Rambles called him in one of their pieces, he was above all “The man of the plains.” He would have liked the definition, but Ghirri, we show here with these two works, was able to move in the most diverse spheres, passing from portraits to still life represented here by a magnificent test of comparison with the pictorial work of Giorgio Morandi made by visiting, to interpret it, his studio.
cm 30 x 40 (cm 24,4 x 34,5 picture) | 11.8 x 15.7 in. (9.6 x 13.5 in. picture)
Work accompanied by Certificate of authenticity released by Archivio di Luigi Ghirri, Roncocesi (Reggio nell'Emilia)
Literature
L. Ghirri, Kodachrome, Punto e Virgola, Modena, 1978, p. 79L. Ghirri, Università di Parma Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1979L. Ghirri, Niente di antico sotto il sole, S.E.I., Turin, 1997, p. 187L. Ghirri, Kodachrome, Mack, London, 2012, p. 79E. Taramelli (edited by), Memoria come un'infanzia, Il pensiero narrante di Luigi Ghirri, Edizioni Diabasis, Parma, 2017
Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, Reggio Emilia 1943 - Reggio Emilia 1992) a surveyor by training, when he began photographing in 1969 he made reference to the conceptual world that he filters into works where he plays between reality and artificiality, immediacy and ambiguity, high culture and consumer images dialoguing with writers like Gianni Celalti, musicians like Lucio Dalla, critics like Massimo Mussini and Arturo Carlo Quintavalle. On the theme of landscape, he realized fundamental projects such as the group shows “Viaggio in Italia” and “Esplorazioni sulla via Emilia,” giving life with his personal research, which flowed into many exhibitions, to 31 books of great importance and to lucidly analytical essays such as “Lezioni di fotografia,” to a wide-ranging consideration that places him among the greatest photographers of his time.If Luigi Ghirri is one of the most beloved authors in the world of collecting this is due to his original gaze and on that only apparent linearity that characterizes his works. His ability to switch from small 35 mm to medium format, to alternate negative films, slides, Polaroids always remaining faithful to the delicate chromaticisms of a very recognizable use of color make him a photographer more focused on philosophical reflection than on technical disputes. As the Modena City Rambles called him in one of their pieces, he was above all “The man of the plains.” He would have liked the definition, but Ghirri, we show here with these two works, was able to move in the most diverse spheres, passing from portraits to still life represented here by a magnificent test of comparison with the pictorial work of Giorgio Morandi made by visiting, to interpret it, his studio.
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