Guido Guidi. With time, 1956-2024
Casa Cavazzini - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, via Cavour 14 - Udine

27 September 2025 - 6 January 2026
Tuesday to Sunday (closed 25 December, 1 January and all Mondays)
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., last entry at 5:30 p.m.

Opening Saturday 27 September 2025, 11.00 a.m.
Talk with photographer and curators Sunday 28 September 2025, 11 a.m.

The extensive retrospective Guido Guidi. Col tempo, 1956-2024 is on display in Udine, at Casa Cavazzini - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, from 27 September 2025 to 6 January 2026.
The exhibition, dedicated to one of the protagonists of Italian and international photography, is produced by MAXXI National Museum of Arts of the 21st Century in collaboration with the Public Museums of the Municipality of Udine, and the Guido Guidi Archive.
Curated by Simona Antonacci, Pippo Ciorra and Antonello Frongia, the exhibition reconstructs the artistic career of Guidi (Cesena, 1941) starting from his private archive in Ronta. This intimate space is both a studio and home, as well as a ‘workshop’ for young authors, and a privileged access point for an in-depth understanding of his ‘theory’ of vision.
The exhibition is structured chronologically and thematically, organised into 34 sequences featuring over 350 photographic prints, with a rich selection of archival material displayed in thematic showcases. Guidi’s research has revolutionised the relationship with landscape and architecture, constantly placing the act of seeing and the passage of time at the centre. The exhibition revisits the early black-and-white experiments of the 1960s and moves through the introduction of medium/large format colour works in the 1980s.
A specific area is dedicated to Guidi’s intense dialogue with architecture d'auteur, in particular with the work of Carlo Scarpa: his documentation of the Brion Tomb, for example, reveals the photographer’s extraordinary ability to capture unprecedented configurations of matter and light. The focus on language continues in more recent series, including ‘Raccolta indifferenziata’ (Household waste) and ‘In archivio’ (From the archives) (2024), the latter having been commissioned directly by MAXXI. Display cases broaden the understanding of his theoretical research with notebooks, manuscripts and references to masters such as Walker Evans.
The exhibition is also an opportunity to consolidate a territorial collaboration with a secondary exhibition, which will be inaugurated on 12 December at the Castle Museums, in collaboration with the CRAF of Spilimbergo.

Cover image: Tomba Brion, 20/02/2007 © Guido Guidi, Courtesy of Collezione Fotografia MAXXI Architettura e Design contemporaneo

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