Delve into 'Luigi Ghirri. El mapa y el territorio,' the first major retrospective of Ghirri's work outside Italy. This exhibition primarily focuses on his influential 1970s photography, showcasing his distinctive 'poetic cartography.' Visitors can explore how Ghirri captured suburban homes, provincial Italian landscapes, modern advertising, and the interplay of artifice and nature in various settings. It offers a unique perspective on his artistic engagement with the concepts of 'map' and 'territory'.
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This exhibition presents 'Luigi Ghirri. El mapa y el territorio', the first major retrospective of the artist's work outside of Italy. Focusing on the 1970s, it explores Ghirri's poetic cartography through his engagement with territory and maps, showcasing works that depict suburban homes, provincial Italian landscapes, the interplay of artifice and nature in gardens, modern advertising, and amusement parks.
The exhibition 'Luigi Ghirri. El mapa y el territorio' is recognized as the first significant retrospective of the artist's work to be held outside of Italy. It delves into the core concepts of 'territory' and 'map' as central to Ghirri's artistic practice, primarily focusing on his output from the 1970s. The exhibition features a curated selection of works that highlight Ghirri's distinctive 'poetic cartography.' Visitors can expect to see representations of various facets of Italian life and landscape during that era, including the architecture of suburban homes, the characteristic signs of provincial Italy, the intricate relationship between constructed environments and nature found in gardens, the visual language of modern advertising, and the simulated realities of amusement parks. The exhibition also touches upon Ghirri's engagement with his subjects, both as a photographer and as a subject of photography, and his meticulous study of cartographic details extracted from atlases.
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