“The mystery and uncanny of the last pictures taken by Luigi Ghirri characterise the exhibition-tribute dedicated to this great artist.” “An exhibition by Luigi with a single photograph" is a long-coming project by his friend Vittorio Savi which has finally taken shape. This unique and last photograph, which will be presented with a story written by Beppe Sebaste for this special occasion, invites us to go back to a key point in Luigi Ghirri’s poetics: a  reflection on time and infinity.

Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, Reggio Emilia, 1943 – Roncocesi, Reggio Emilia, 1992) worked as a photographer for over twenty years, from 1970 to 1992. One of the most important and influential figures in contemporary photography, he first started working in the ambit of conceptual art, and his research soon attracted international attention. In 1975 Time-Life included him among the ‘discoveries’ of its Photography Year, and he showed at the Art as Photographt – Photography as Art exhibition at Kassel. In 1982 he was presented at the Photokina in Cologne as one of the most significant artists in the history of 20^th-century photography. His works are held in various institutions around the world, including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Musée-Château (Annecy), Musée de la Photographie Réattu (Arles), Polaroid Collection (Cambridge, Massachussets), Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan) Archivio dello Spazio – Amministrazione Provinciale (Milan), Galleria Civica (Modena), Canadian Centre for Architecture – Centre Canadien d’Architecture (Montréal), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Cabinets des estampes – Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), Fond National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (Parma), Biblioteca Panizzi – Fototeca (Reggio Emilia), Palazzo Braschi – Archivio Fotografico Comunale (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Turin), Fotomuseum (Winterthur).

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via dell'Aquila 3/a - Reggio Emilia
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Hours
Opening 30 April at 18.00
From 1 to 3 May from 10.00 to 23.00
From 5 May to 7 June: from Tuesdays to Fridays from 18.00 to 23.00; Saturdays, Sundays and festivals from 10.00 to 23.00

Concert dedicated to Luigi Ghirri