Places and spaces of the Po Valley territory in Ghirri's shots. On display in Guastalla

Saturday, June 3, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. opens at the Ducal Palace in Guastalla, in the twelve rooms of the main floor, the exhibition Luigi Ghirri: Pollicino’s Stones, curated by the GhirriArchive and Culture Councillor Gloria Negri with the scientific advice of Franco Farinelli.

Visible until November 30, 2023, the exhibition created on the80th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Ghirri, one of the major protagonists of the photographic and visual culture of the second half of the 20th century, presents eighty color photographs belonging to the Vintage repertoire (printed with Luigi’s direct approval and control), the Modern (printed posthumously but with the control of his wife Paola) and current prints (made by the same workshop that has always been involved in Ghirri’s work and controlled by the Archive). Photographs representing places and spaces of the Po Valley territory.

The first section displays images of Guastalla, Gualtieri, Boretto, Brescello, Luzzara, Novellara, Pomponesco and other localities of the Bassa, followed by photos of the countryside of Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna and Mantua and the banks of the Po River. The third section offers a discussion of the relationship between interior and exterior as a “reminder of a certain way of life, culturally highly connoted.” As Luigi Ghirri put it, “in Italy, the interiors of houses, churches, cinemas and stores look like miniature museums full of objects, a sort of local album.” The exhibition concludes with an image of Paola, his life and work partner, and two shots depicting both of them.

A path that, according to the reading of Franco Farinelli, the exhibition’s scientific advisor, lies in that intermediate area between the concepts of place and space that Ghirri manages so well to penetrate. Between the identifiable, precisely connoted place known to our everyday life and the horizons toward the infinite of our plain lies our human experience that possesses both.

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Photo courtesy of the Ghirri Archive

Places and spaces of the Po Valley territory in Ghirri's shots. On display in Guastalla

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