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Press Release Checklist Luigi Ghirri Vintage prints 1970-1980 September 8 - October 20, 2001 Opening reception, Friday, September 14, 6-8 pm The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition of photographs by Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) including over sixty vintage prints made between 1970 and 1980 by his lifelong printing collaborator Arrigo Ghi- who continues to make Ghirri's modern prints today. The images are selected from several series including "Colazione sul erbe", "Topography/Iconography", "Sul Terra", "Catalogo", and "Kodachrome". Our first exhibition held in 1999, entitled "Thinking through Images", consisted of forty-nine modern prints selected from Ghirri's early years. Luigi Ghirri revolutionized Italian photography in the 1970s with his fresh color snap-shot style observations of Italian contemporary culture. His small delicately colored prints were conceived in series to create visual poems- gentle but direct. The small scale and modest demeanor of his prints belie their power. Much of the work anticipates the large scale contemporary work of photographers ranging from Miguel Rio Branco to Andreas Gursky. Born in Reggio Emilia and educated in nearby Modena, Ghirri created visually profound images about the nature of representation and seeing. Although he freely acknowledged the influence of American photographers Lee Friedlander, Walker Evans and William Eggleston, as well as Atget, his work possesses a witty and worldly sensibility that is purely his own. After 1980 and until his death Ghirri worked primarily with landscape and architecture collaborating extensively with Aldo Rossi, and he also completed a series of still lives in the studio of Georgio Morandi which are published as a monograph. Over the next several years we plan to continue organizing exhibitions which follow Ghirri's evolution. Ghirri exhibited widely in Europe during his active but prematurely curtailed career. Only now is he beginning to achieve widespread attention, although of the more than twenty-five monographs published on his work, none are in English. In the United States he was first shown at the Visual Studies workshop under Nathan Lyons and later at the Light Gallery in Manhattan through Charles Traub. Our show corresponds with the third stop in a European traveling museum retrospective which will open on September 2nd at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland and was organized by the Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia. A major monograph with over 400 plates has ben published by Federico Motta Editore in Italy in conjunction with the show, and copies of the book will be available at the gallery. This exhibition is being held in conjunction with the second "Italian Biennale" of photography which is being held in September and October at various locations in New York. For further information on the other exhibitions please contact "Studio Marangoni" at studiomarangoni@dada.it. The Julie Saul Gallery is the exclusive representative of the modern and vintage prints of Luigi Ghirri in the United States. In the second gallery we will exhibit an installation of prints by Todd Hido selected from his new monograph House Hunting, published by Nazraeli Press with a short text by A.M. Homes. Hido's large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious...and strangely comforting. The hardcover book is beautifully produced with a 14 x 17" format and 26 color plates. LUIGI GHIRRI VINTAGE PRINTS, 1970-1980 SEPTEMBER 8 - OCTOBER 20, 2001 Entrance (left to right) 1. da “Kodachrome”, 1972 6 7/8 x 4 7/8” (#574) 2. da “Kodachrome”, 1977 7 5/8 x 4 7/8” (#569) 3. da “Paesaggi di cartone”, 1971 6 7/8 x 4 3/4” (#577) Main Gallery (top left to bottom right) East Wall 4. Trieste, 9 x 4 1/2” (#517) 5. da “Paesaggio Italiano” 9 3/8 x 4 5/8” (#516) 6. da “Italia ailati 6 7/8 x 4 3/4” (#504) 7. da “Il paese dei balocchi”, 1974 6 3/4 x 4 3/8” (#568) 8. da “Italia ailati”, 1973 7 x 5” (#501) 9. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1973 7 5/8 x 4 7/8” (#559) 10. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1972 8 3/8 x 5 1/2” (#572) 11. da “Kodachrome”, 1978 7 1/2 x 4 3/4” (#571) North Wall 12. da “Kodachrome”, 1972 4 1/2 x 3” (#544) 13. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1970 6 7/8 x 4 7/8” (#581) 14. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1971 6 5/8 x 4 5/8” (#505) 15. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1971 6 7/8 x 4 7/8” (#506) 16. da “Kodachrome”, 1974 6 1/2 x 4 5/8” (#583) 17. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1970 8 x 10” (#575) 18. da “Colazione sull’erba”, 1973 4 3/4 x 6 7/8” (#560) 19. da “Kodachrome, 1973 5 x 6 7/8” (#565) 20. da “Kodachrome”, 1972 8 7/8 x 6” (#564) 21. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1971 4 3/4 x 7 1/8” (#548) 22. da “Kodachrome”, 1971 5 x 6 7/8” (#545) 23. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 5 x 7” (#550) 24. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 3 1/8 x 4 1/4” (#553) 25. da “Kodachrome”, 1971 6 7/8 x 5” (#554) 26. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 4 5/8 x 3 1/8” (#557) 27. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 4 1/2 x 6 7/8” (#549) West Wall 28. da “Catalogo”, 1972 7 1/2 x 4 7/8” (#511) 29. da “Catalogo”, 1977 6 3/4 x 5” (#515) 30. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 7 1/8 x 4 3/4” (#541) 31. da “Kodachrome”, 1974 6 3/4 x 4 3/4” (#539) 32. da “Diaframma 11, 1/125, luce naturale, 6 5/8 x 4 1/2” (#523) 33. Finestre, 1972 4 5/8 x 3 1/8” (#525) 34. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1971 4 5/8 x 3” (#570) 35. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1972 6 7/8”5” (#579) 36. da “Catalogo, 1972 (#561) and da “Catalogo, 1972 (#562) 4 5/8 x 3 1/8” each 37. da “Catalogo, 1972 (#527) and da “Catalogo, 1971(#528) 3 1/8 x 4 5/8” each 38. da “Kodachrome”, 1974 6 7/8 x 5” (#563) South Wall 39. da “Kodachrome”, 1972 9 1/2 x 7 1/2” (#534) 40. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 5 x 6 7/8” (#519) 41. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1970 (#530) and Fotografia periodo iniziale, 1970 (#529) 4 1/2 x 6 1/2” 42. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 9 1/4 x 6 3/4” (#521) 43. da “Kodachrome”, 1977 4 5/8 x 6 7/8” (#537) 44. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 4 7/8 x 7” (#522) 45. da “Kodachrome”, 1973 5 x 6 7/8” (#508) 46. Fotografia periodo iniziale, 5 x 6 7/8” (#547) 47. da “Kodachrome”, 1972 4 3/4 x 4 7/8” $2000 (#536) 48. da “Kodachrome”, 1972 6 7/8 x 4 3/4” (#532) 49. da “Il paese dei balocchi”, 1973 7 1/4 x 5” (#535) All of the prints in the exhibition are vintage chromogenic prints, stamped and signed by the estate of Luigi Ghirri. All were printed by Arrigo Ghi during the lifetime of Luigi Ghirri. Modern prints are available of select images. Please inquire. top For additional information contact the gallery back |
  
           
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