Luigi Ghirri | Cartes et territoires

The first major Luigi Ghirri retrospective to go on show outside the artist’s native Italy, the focus of the exhibition rests on the 1970s, a key period where conceptual art is affirmed and take shapes a new face of italian territory.

This exhibition is structured around two key notions: “territory” and “map”, ideas which reflect the world and the way it is represented. The selection of works here reprises the poetic cartography of the 1979 show, which, across fourteen series divided into themes, surveyed a compendium of the places Ghirri travelled through: houses in the suburbs; the landscape of signs in the provincial Italy of that era; the relationship between artificiality and nature in the gardens of Modena; modern advertising images; the simulated of world of amusement parks; those who photograph and those who are photographed; details of maps taken from an atlas, and so on, with an unique style.