From Oct. 4, 2024 to Feb. 23, 2026, the Halls of the Queen’s Apartment at the Royal Palace of Caserta will host the exhibition Perspectives at the Royal Palace of Caserta by Massimo Listri, one of the most appreciated and recognized photographers in the field of architectural and environmental photography. The exhibition presents more than forty large-format shots spanning fifty years of his career, offering a selection of images that traverse Italian and international spaces and ideally dialogue with the articulated perspective symmetries conceived by Luigi Vanvitelli for the Bourbon complex.
The exhibition is a tribute to a photographer who has dedicated his research to the beauty and complexity of man-made spaces, transforming architecture into subjects capable of narrating different eras, visions and poetics. Listri’s work, characterized by a particular attention to compositional balance and purity of gaze, restores to the immortalized environments a suspended aura, in which the absence of the human element becomes an instrument of contemplation.
Throughout his long career, Massimo Listri has collaborated with some of the most important international art and architecture magazines. Among his most important experiences is his association with the publisher Franco Maria Ricci, with whom he has produced reportages dedicated to the world’s most representative architectural works for over twenty years. The constant attention to the historical and symbolic dimension of built spaces has led the photographer to explore emblematic places, both in Italy and abroad, through a gaze that is both classical and visionary. In recent years, Listri has also extended his research to the Royal Palace of Caserta, entering into dialogue with its monumental environments. It was here that he created the images for a Treccani volume published in 2024, an occasion that marks his return to the so-called Vanvitellian Wonder. The exhibition thus represents a further chapter in the relationship with the royal palace, a dialogue in which the perspectives and geometries conceived by Vanvitelli meet those of other places that helped shape the photographer’s gaze.
The exhibition proposes a visual itinerary through emblematic spaces. Photographs on display include the vast halls of the Uffizi and those of the Palace of Versailles, the perspective threads of the National Gallery in London, the collected and evocative atmospheres of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua and the Palazzo Grimani, to the decadence of Villa Porfidia and the suspended tensions of Palazzo Butera and Canova’s Gipsoteca. Each environment selected by Listri stands out as an example of man’s creative capacity, revealing through photography the aesthetic and symbolic character of the spaces.
Underlying Listri’s work is a rigorous method of selection and composition, based on the search for balance and symmetry. His photography is never simple documentation, but the construction of a visual narrative in which the architectures become the protagonists of a discourse on beauty and memory. In the absence of human figures, the environments take on an absolute and universal value, and their contemplation becomes a pure and distraction-free experience.
The exhibition will be open to visitors in the Halls of the Queen’s Apartment according to the following hours: in October, from 2 to 6 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on holidays; in November and December, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 to 6 p.m. Hours for January and February will be announced later. The exhibition will be closed on free days and during concession events. Admission to the exhibition is included in your ticket or museum pass.
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| Massimo Listri brings his "Perspectives" to the Royal Palace of Caserta |
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