From September 10 to October 18, 2025 BUILDING Gallery in Milan presents the second chapter of the exhibition Ljubodrag Andric. Spaces, Thresholds, Lights, curated by Francesco Tedeschi and realized in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. After the first stage hosted at Palazzo Cini - La Galleria, the project now lands in the spaces of via Monte di Pietà 23 with an itinerary that is articulated on two exhibition levels and offers a new selection of about twenty works. The work of Andric, born in Belgrade in 1965, has for years focused on architecture as the privileged subject of a photographic investigation that aims to go beyond the documentary datum to approach an abstract dimension. Photography thus becomes a tool for reflecting on the relationship between sign and archetype, image and perception, in a constant dialogue with painting and sculpture.
The Milan itinerary was designed in relation to the gallery spaces and includes a thematic subdivision that highlights different nuclei of the artist’s research. The ground floor displays works dedicated to the representation of architectural forms, with images that explore interior, exterior and surface spaces through heterogeneous visual solutions.
The variety of subjects is accompanied by an investigation of light and matter, elements that combine to transform the architectural object into an image suspended between concreteness and abstraction. On the second floor, however, two distinct directions develop. On the one hand, the theme of the threshold emerges, with photographs depicting mysterious openings or blind windows, mainly the result of Andric’s experiences in East India. On the other, a series of shots focuses on historic Italian architecture, interpreted as attempts to reduce construction to pure luminous essence. In both sections, the theme of the threshold imposes itself as a symbol of passage and transformation, suggesting to the viewer an inner journey that goes beyond material representation.
The layout aims to reinforce the idea of a dialogue between the two exhibition levels and between the different thematic cores, emphasizing the continuity between the images and their ability to transform space into contemplative experience. The result is an interweaving of visual references that gives architecture a metaphorical value, made of unpredictable trajectories, organic qualities and labyrinthine suggestions. The new stage represents the continuation of a project begun in Venice, where from April 18 to September 8, 2025, the first chapter of the exhibition had placed 17 works created between 2021 and 2024 during the artist’s travels in India in dialogue with the architecture of the lagoon city. At Palazzo Cini, the photographs had highlighted the correspondences between the intimate and suspended atmospheres of eastern places and Venetian historical stratifications, generating a long-distance confrontation between lights, shadows and architectural memories.
The overall project is accompanied by the publication of two catalogs edited by BUILDING publisher in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation. The first volume, dedicated to the Venetian experience, collects contributions by curator Francesco Tedeschi, architect Renata Codello, Secretary General of the Foundation, and Chiara Casarin, Head of Cultural Development and Communication of the same institution. The second volume, soon to be published, will document the entire project and will contain texts by Tedeschi along with essays by photography historian Marta Braun and aesthetics professor Andrea Pinotti.
Ljubodrag Andric, born in Belgrade in 1965 into a family of artists, approached photography at the age of fifteen. After studying humanities at the University of Belgrade, he decided to devote himself entirely to this discipline in 1987, obtaining his first professional assignments in the field of architectural photography. Two years later he exhibited for the first time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. In the same period he moved to Rome, where he lived and worked between the capital and Milan for about fifteen years. Since 2002 he has resided in Canada, in Toronto, focusing his research exclusively on artistic practice. Today he is a Canadian, Italian and Serbian citizen.
His works have been presented in museums, galleries, festivals and international fairs. In 2016, Skira publishing house published a comprehensive monograph dedicated to him, edited by Demetrio Paparoni. Andric is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and BUILDING in Milan.
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