Guido Guidi on show in Milan: photography as an exploration of space, light and shadow

Milan ’s 10-Corso-Como Gallery will host, from May 7 to July 27, 2025, Da un altro parte, the solo exhibition of Guido Guidi (Cesena, 1941), curated by Alessandro Rabottini and organized by Viasaterna. The exhibition offers an extended reconnaissance of Guidi’s photographic work, paying particular attention to a specific theme: that of shadows. A recurring motif in his artistic practice, the shadow here becomes a key element to understand the long-standing investigation that Guidi has developed around space and light. The entire exhibition is configured as a visual reflection on the everyday, on the marginal and antimonumental places that characterize our living, interpreted through a gaze capable of suspending time. Guido Guidi’s photographs are distinguished by a tactile quality that transforms the most common forms of the urban and rural landscape into elements charged with meaning, though without forcing them into a didactic or celebratory narrative. His poetics of attention, built consistently over decades, is based on a constant questioning of the very act of seeing, analyzing its existential, formal and theoretical implications.

Through methodical and rigorous research, Guidi has consolidated a recognizable visual language and profoundly influenced entire generations of photographers. His approach, characterized by a subtlety that has been able to leave a lasting impression, has established itself as one of the most significant examples of a photography that interrogates, rather than documents, the surrounding reality. The exhibition Da un’altra parte collects images made between the early 1970s and 2023, constructing an itinerary that highlights the persistence and recurrence of certain fundamental themes within Guidi’s research. While traditionally working with the format of the photographic series - a privileged mode of conception, publication and exhibition of his works - on this occasion the selection focuses on single images. The photographs are extrapolated from their respective series and placed in dialogue with each other, according to a criterion that goes beyond the usual chronological and thematic structures. The principle guiding the arrangement is that of poetic and formal tension. The images, untied from the constraint of sequentiality, confront each other in a free construction, which intends to emphasize correspondences, divergences and internal references to Guidi’s photographic practice. The shadow, chosen as a unifying element, manifests itself not only as a physical phenomenon but also as a metaphor of the gaze that rests on things, without pretending to dominate or explain them, but rather restoring their fragile existence. Alessandro Rabottini’s curatorship insists on this dimension of interpretative freedom, emphasizing the visual experience and the ability of images to evoke without necessarily describing. The selection of works and their juxtaposition aim to bring out the temporal stratification of Guidi’s work, emphasizing how, although contexts and technical conditions change, some fundamental thematic cores have remained unchanged over time.

The exhibition is part of a moment of growing international attention to the figure of Guido Guidi, whose contribution to contemporary photography is recognized not only for the aesthetic value of his images, but also for the conceptual rigor of his research. In Da un altro parte, each photograph is presented as a surface on which time settles and in which light is layered, making visible what normally remains at the margins of perception. The daily opening of the exhibition, from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., offers visitors the chance to explore a body of work spanning more than 50 years. The works on display cover a time span from his beginnings in the 1970s, a period in which Guidi began to elaborate his personal language, to the most recent shots of 2023, evidence of the continuing vitality of his research.

Guido Guidi on show in Milan: photography as an exploration of space, light and shadow

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