From November 20, 2025 to January 9, 2026, Still Fotografia gallery in Milan presents Edoardo Romagnoli. Autobiography of a Photographer, a solo exhibition that brings together more than thirty works by Milanese artist Edoardo Romagnoli (Milan, 1952), known for his ability to combine photography with a pictorial language. The exhibition offers a path through the main stages of Romagnoli’s career, highlighting the relationship between memory, emotion and technical experimentation. The exhibition consists of shots from the Moon and Flowers series, made without any Photoshop intervention in the early stages of the work, and recounts Romagnoli’s artistic trajectory from his pictorial beginnings in the 1970s. During that period, the artist was guided by his mother, a painter, who influenced his training and approach to visual composition. Over time, Romagnoli developed a photographic style capable of blending the immediacy of the painterly gesture with the precision of photography, creating a constant dialogue between movement and stillness, memory and actuality, technique and emotion.
“In the late 1980s I realized that I could paint with a camera,” says Edoardo Romagnoli. "I often went to the terrace at night and photographed the moon, tried to move the camera and got horizons, then moved again and tried to get what my mind was drawing. After repeated episodes of loss of balance due to Ménière syndrome, I forced myself to hold the subject (the moon) steady without moving the camera. In this direction I shot for months straining my instinct to paint with the camera. The background of the moving sea, shot at long times, painted for me. The result is the work Trying to Stop the Image, featured in the exhibition."
Among the milestones in his career, Romagnoli’s works have been exhibited at Lanfranco Colombo’s Il Diaframma, and at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. The experiences helped consolidate his research, which is characterized by a balance between formal rigor and chromatic experimentation. In recent years, the artist has introduced elements of post production in the new shots of the Fiori series, exploring intentionally unusual and sometimes improbable tones and colors, capable of restoring an intense and original emotional dimension. The new works find their framework in historical elements left by his grandfather, Giuseppe Palanti, a painter and teacher at the Brera Academy, creating a temporal and stylistic contrast between modernity and tradition. In addition to offering a comprehensive overview of Romagnoli’s work, the exhibition also testifies to the artist’s ability to renew himself without losing the connection to his training and family tradition. Through the careful use of color, the selection of subjects and the care of historical frames, each work becomes a document of the author’s ongoing reflection on the relationship between photography and painting, between experimentation and continuity, between past and present.
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| Photography and painting meet in Edoardo Romagnoli's solo exhibition in Milan, Italy |
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