Descrizione
Luigi Ghirri began shooting photographs in 1970, measuring himself against conceptual artists and seeking signs in natural landscapes and artificial signs in human work and in the landscape itself (posters, signs but also geographical maps). In 1980, urged by Vittorio Savi, he tackled photography of architecture on the territory. His landscapes are suspended, non-realistic and in some ways metaphysical, often without human figures but never lacking man’s intervention on the landscape. The use of delicate and unsaturated colours is fundamental to his poetics and grew out of close collaboration with his printer Arrigo Ghi.