Between 1990 and 1998 Guido Guidi made five trips to Milan and its surroundings. His goal was to document the social and economic changes of those places. Those shots are now on display in the exhibition Five trips 1990 – 1998, curated by Corrado Benigni, exhibited at the monastery of Astino, in the province of Bergamo. In his photos, Guidi gives an image of the architecture and landscapes of Italy of those years, in a period of great urban development. “With this project Guidi focuses for the first time almost entirely on the theme of the city, which, mediated by his gaze, becomes a realistic and fantastic universe at the same time, a space with frayed and changing boundaries”, says Benigni.
The exhibition brings together sixty images created in the context of two public documentation projects – Space Archive e Milan without borders – and other unpublished photographs, which Guidi selected from the negatives of the time.
“Guidi represents Milan and its surroundings seeking a different attention to the shapes of the city, which no longer relies on the evocative power of street names, squares, architecture, as if it were enough to name a place to evoke and represent its characters, the essence, the spirit. Rather, he tries to describe shapes in a more individual perception: like the consistency of light, the density of colors and matter ”, writes Benigni in the book that accompanies the exhibition, published by the Mack publishing house.
The volume presents 130 images with texts in Italian and English by Corrado Benigni, Roberta Valtorta and Antonello Frongia.
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