Milan, exhibition on Carlo Valsecchi and the works of ACPV Architects opens

From April 12 to May 12, 2024, the Palazzo Morando in Milan will present an exhibition on the artist Carlo Valsecchi and the architectural works created over a 20-year period (2000-2020) by ACPV Architects Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel architectural and interior design firm. A series of photographs, in large format, will show Valsecchi’s journey through the spaces designed by the Milan-based firm. In Carlo Valsecchi’s images, the built environment blends into the landscape in a process of exchange between architecture and the complexity of the city. The exhibition is a distillation of Carlo Valsecchi’s photographs “looking” at the Studio’s work, in a sequence composed of visual analogies, which are developed in their entirety in the volume “ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel as seen by Carlo Valsecchi” (2024, Silvana Editoriale). The book features written contributions by curator and essayist Francesco Zanot, architect Valerio Paolo Mosco, art critic and curator Francesco Bonami, and writer Deyan Sudjic. The project shows how capturing architecture through the medium of photography is not a simple matter, as stated in the book’s preface: “Architecture exists only in the instantaneous and unmeasurable space of feeling, it is essential to be there, to be there in that instant. This has little to do with vision, it has only to do with the symbolic and emotional being that is the human animal. In this, lies the quality of this book and exhibition.”

ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel is an international collective that aims to help create shared well-being through high-profile architectural solutions around the world. Founded by architects Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, the firm has more than 160 professionals and is led by 11 partners. Each ACPV ARCHITECTS project encapsulates a new vision where nature and the highest human aspirations find a new centrality.

Notes on the artist

Carlo Valsecchi was born in Brescia, Italy in 1965. He lives and works in Milan. In his work he researches the relationship between light, space and time. He observes space as a set of microcosms and returns portions and details of timeless spaces through large-format photographs. The perspective gap between different scales, the identification of grids and the abstraction of the subject are the main elements of his language, which works on perceptual disorientation, conveying the most enigmatic component of reality. In 1992, his work was selected for the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has held solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Italy and abroad, including: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York, 1999; Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, 2000; Gallery 213, Paris, 2001; Studio Casoli, Milan, 2001; Semaines européennes de l’image - Le bâti, le vivant, Luxembourg, 2002; GAMeC, Bergamo, 2003; Nuove Opere, Guido Costa project, Turin, 2006; A ferro e fuoco, Triennale, Milan, 2006; Paris Photo, Declarations, Paris, 2007; Passato, Presente, Futuro, from the collection of UniCredit, Banking Group, Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, 2009; Lumen, a mid-career retrospective, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2009, Walter Keller Gallery, Zurich, 2009 and Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, 2011; San Luis, MART, Rovereto, 2011; 54. Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion (selected by Norman Foster), Venice, 2011; Subverted, Ivorypress, Madrid, 2012; Landmark: the Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, 2013; Mare Nostrum, Walter Keller Gallery, Zurich, 2013; Museo della Merda, Piacenza, 2015; Industry, Today, MAST Foundation, Bologna, 2015; No Man Nature, Palazzo Da Mosto, Fotografia European, Effetto Terra, Reggio Emilia, 2015; Photographs of Emilia- Romagna at work, MAST Foundation, Bologna, 2016; Developing the Future, Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini, Biennial of Photography of Industry and Labor, Bologna, 2017; Civilization: The Way We Live Now, MMCA Seoul, 2018; Gasometer M.A.N. No. 3, Salone degli Incamminati, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, 2019; Tamen Simul, The Open Box, Milan, 2019; Bellum, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 2022; Atlas Sapienza22, MAXXI, Rome, 2023; Human.Kind, International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 2023; Caseus # 01215, Platea/Palazzo Galeano, Lodi, 2023. In 2010, his book Lumen (Hatje Cantz, 2009) received the silver medal at the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, the German prize for the best photography books of the year.

Milan, exhibition on Carlo Valsecchi and the works of ACPV Architects opens

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