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LUIGI GHIRRITHE MAP AND THE TERRITORY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1970'S02 | 12 – 06 | 02 | 2019
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Couverture Luigi GhirriSalzburgo, 1977. Private collection. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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Exhibition jointly organised by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.
In partnership with the Italian Cultural Institut in Paris.
With the exceptional support of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The Jeu de Paume is funded by the French Ministry of Culture.
It enjoys the support of special sponsors NEUFLIZE OBC BANKand MANUFACTURE JAEGER-LECOULTRE.
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Luigi Ghirri Orbetello, 1974 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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LUIGI GHIRRITHE MAP AND THE TERRITORYPHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1970'S02| 12 – 06 | 02 | 2019
This first retrospective of photographs taken outside his native Italy by Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) focuses on the 1970s. It covers a decade in which Luigi Ghirri produced a corpus of colour photographs unparalleled in Europe at that time.
Luigi Ghirri, who was a trained surveyor, began taking photographs at weekends in the early 1970s, devising projects and themes as he roamed up and down the streets, the piazzas and the suburbs of Modena. He cast an attentive and affectionate eye on the signs of the outside world, observing, without openly commenting on them, the changes wrought by humans to the landscape and the housing in the Reggio Emilia, his province of birth. It was a barometer for a local vernacular exposed to the advent of new forms of housing, leisure and advertising. “I am interested in ephemeral architecture, in the provincial world, in objects generally regarded as bad taste, as kitsch, but which have never been that for me, in objects charged with desires, dreams, collective memories [...] windows, mirrors, stars, palm trees, atlases, globes, books, museums and human beings seen through images.”By the end of the decade, Luigi Ghirri had accumulated thousands of pictures and developed a unique style and complex conceptual framework for his work. That first decade concluded with two high points: the publication, in 1978, of Kodachrome, a truly exceptional book of photographs, and a major exhibition, "Vera Fotografia", which was held in 1979 at the exhibition centre of the University of Parma. It was organised by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle and Massimo Mussini, and presented fourteen projects and themes to illustrate Luigi Ghirri's distinctive philosophy and methods of action.This exhibition is based on the poetic map of the 1979 exhibition, which featured both highly structured projects such as Atlante (1973) – photographs of pages from atlases –, and Colazione sull'erba (1972-1974), in which the artist had observed and examined the interface between artifice and nature in the tiny gardens of Modena, as well as more diverse groups such as Diaframma 11, 1/125, luce naturale (1970-1979), which dealt with the ways in which people took photographs and were photographed, or the landscape of the signs of provincial Italy in Italia Ailati and Vedute (1970-1979).Luigi Ghirri had an unshakeable fascination for representations of the world, for reproductions, pictures, posters, models and maps, and for the way in which these representations were incorporated into the world, as signs in the heart of the city or in the landscape. For Luigi Ghirri, the mediation of experience through images in an Italy torn between the old and the new was an inexhaustible source of study, “a great adventure in the world of thought and of the gaze, a great magic toy
that miraculously reconciles our knowledge as adults with the fabulous world of childhood, a never-ending journey into the great and the small, in the variations that appear throughout the kingdom of illusions and appearances, labyrinths and mirrors, of multitudes and simulations.”
A catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition. Texts by James Lingwood, Maria Antonella Pelizzari and Jacopo Benci and a selection of the artist’s writings (1970-1979)Jointly published by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía / Folkwang Museum / Jeu de Paume / MACKEditions in, English, French, German and Spanish Broché, 22 × 18 cm, 350 pages, 250 illustrations, 45 €
Curator: James Lingwood
Exhibition jointly organised by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.In partnership with the Italian Cultural Institut in Paris.With the exceptional support of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
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1. Luigi Ghirri, Pescara, 1972 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
PRESS VISUALS The royalty-free reproduction and display of the following selection of images is permitted solely as part of the promotion of this exhibition at the Jeu de Paume and only while the exhibition is in progress.
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2. Luigi Ghirri, Orbetello, 1974 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
3. Luigi Ghirri, Lido di spina, 1974 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
4. Luigi Ghirri, Haarlem, 1973. The Vegini Luigi collection © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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KODACHROME
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5. Luigi Ghirri, Engelberg, 1972. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
6. Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1971. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery © Estate Luigi Ghirri
7. Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1972. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
8. Luigi Ghirri, Bologna, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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9. Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
10. Luigi Ghirri, L'Île-Rousse, 1976. Bibliothèque nationale de France © Estate Luigi Ghirri
11. Luigi Ghirri, Calvi, 1976. Private collection. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery © Estate Luigi Ghirri
12. Luigi Ghirri, Marina di Ravenna, 1972. Bibliothèque nationale de France © Estate Luigi Ghirri
13. Luigi Ghirri, Bastia, 1976 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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14. Luigi Ghirri, Salzburgo, 1977. Private collection. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery © Estate Luigi Ghirri
15. Luigi Ghirri, Padova, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
16. Luigi Ghirri, Brest, 1972. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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9. Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
10. Luigi Ghirri, L'Île-Rousse, 1976. Bibliothèque nationale de France © Estate Luigi Ghirri
11. Luigi Ghirri, Calvi, 1976. Private collection. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery © Estate Luigi Ghirri
12. Luigi Ghirri, Marina di Ravenna, 1972. Bibliothèque nationale de France © Estate Luigi Ghirri
13. Luigi Ghirri, Bastia, 1976 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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17. Luigi Ghirri, Rimini, 1977 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
18. Luigi Ghirri, Rimini, 1977 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
19. Luigi Ghirri, Rimini, 1977 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
20. Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1977 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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21. Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
22. Luigi Ghirri, Atlante, 1976. Bibliothèque nationale de France © Estate Luigi Ghirri
ITALIA AILATI
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23. Luigi Ghirri, Carpi, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
24. Luigi Ghirri, '∞' Infinito, 1974 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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25. Luigi Ghirri, Padova, 1973. CSAC, Università di Parma © Estate Luigi Ghirri
26. Luigi Ghirri, Ritratto di Claude Nori, 1977 © Estate Luigi Ghirri
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Edited by James Lingwood.
Texts by Jacopo Benci, Maria Antonella Pelizzariand James Lingwood.
Selection of texts by Luigi Ghirrifrom the 1970's
may 2018
available in french, english, spanish and german
co-published by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía / Jeu de Paume / Museum Folkwang / MACK
publication in partnership with MACK
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