From July 18 to September 30, 2025, the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona is hosting the major anthological exhibition Giorgio Cutini. Song of Seasons, dedicated to one of the most significant protagonists of Italian photography. The exhibition, curated by Gabriele Perretta and organized by the Consiglio Regionale delle Marche, in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Municipality of Ancona, traces some of the milestones of the photographer’s creative journey through more than two hundred photographic works, many of them previously unpublished, that testify to the intuitive and conceptual approach with which Cutini confronts the world.
The exhibition is conceived as a path of personal artistic and human introspection, but at the same time it is proposed as a universal journey of the gaze through the seasons of life. Arranged in a thematic subdivision within the spaces of the Mole Vanvitelliana, the exhibition focuses on the series that best represent Cutini’s distinctive style. Always a stranger to the clichés and visual codes of contemporary instantaneity, the author has developed a poetics that eschews the ordinary and seeks in the landscape that which moves inner emotions. His photographs do not simply reproduce reality, but explore its most intimate echo, the one that resonates in the soul.
Prominent among the sections in the exhibition is Inquietude, which explores the relationship between the artist and nature, understood as an excess and indomitable force. In these images emerges the conflict between the desire for control and the awareness of the continuous avoidance of reality, generating new expressive possibilities. With Silenzio, Cutini moves ever closer to absolute black and white. In this series, the image of the father lost at a young age becomes an opportunity to reflect on the irreducible absence that photography lives by. Silence becomes vertigo, investigated through the Apennine landscapes that become scenarios of the soul, ready to confront a potentially definitive silence.
Solitude is a pivotal theme in his research. It appears when maturity imposes a pause, a direct and personal confrontation. It is at the heart of the series Egl’io, where the artist dialogues with nature, symbolically identifying with the tree, the archetype of rootedness and reflection.
The most recent work, Requie(m), represents a space of recollection and essential spirituality. In these images dominated by black, which is not absence but revelation, the author builds a balance between finite and infinite, between naturalistic detail and inner vision. The representation blurs, leaving room for forms and presences that seem to emerge from beyond, indicating to the viewer that the image, though rarefied, is still possible.
“Giorgio Cutini has fixed the intensities of gray, of black, but also the harmonic intervals, the wordless thought, the shadow of the wind, always keeping physis as the privileged space for the observation of reality, as well as of his rural landscape. Giorgio Cutini ’treats’ his work as a manifesto, exposing his convictions in a direct, true and cultured way, thus revolutionizing the role of photography and that which today, in a negative way, has precipitated into the contradictory post-photographic,” explains curator Gabriele Perretta.
"Everything the author shoots is identified with him, including in his identity also a phase of interpenetration with the landscape, that is, the geological, vegetation and earth. The Song of the Seasons exhibitionally is articulated as a perceptual metaphor in its entirety and, at the same time, it is also a journey made of visions or frescoes of the imagination. The journey is cloaked in the dimension of the infinite, that is, the beyond, the immeasurable and the dialogue with the other," he concludes.
Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog, published by Ephemeria, with texts by Gabriele Perretta, Gilberto Marconi, Flavia Orsati, Enzo Carli, and Giorgio Cutini.
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