France – "Luigi Ghirri. Les années Marazzi 1975 – 1985"
As part of the program 'A Paris pendant Paris Photo' of Paris Photo 2021, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris presents Luigi Ghirri. Les années Marazzi 1975 – 1985.
The exhibition curated by Ilaria Campioli and made in collaboration with Archivio Luigi Ghirri and Marazzi Group, displays for the first time in France a set of almost completely unpublished photographs taken by Luigi Ghirri between the Seventies and Eighties for the ceramic company Marazzi, and celebrates one of the most important masters of Italian photography at an international level.
In ten years, Ghirri created an important body of works for Marazzi, almost entirely free from the canons of advertising images and extremely consistent with the artistic and visual research and themes dear to the photographer in those years: the surface, the common object, the project, the landscape, light as a genius loci.
The exhibition presents a selection of twenty-four photographs from those taken during the collaboration between the artist and Marazzi, which have been kept in the company's archives for almost forty years.
The exhibition opened on November 10 and will run until December 21. As a tribute to Ghirri's extraordinary visionary talent, on November 14 the Institute also proposes the screening of the documentary film Deserto Rosa by Elisabetta Sgarbi (2009), a celebratory hymn in which photography, music and poetry meet thanks to the precious collaboration by Franco Battiato (music), Toni Servillo and Andrea Renzi (voices), Aleksandr Sokurov, Antonio Scurati, Vittorio Sgarbi and Diego Marani (conception of the texts). Elisabetta Sgarbi will introduce the screening.