A Photographic Portrait of a Decade Through the Lens of Nino Migliori
Photo courtesy by Lorenzo Palmieri
Milan, June 10th, 2024 – Starting June 18, M77 Gallery will open to the public “SEVENTY”, a captivating monographic exhibition project showcasing the diverse photographic works of the 1970s by the renowned Bolognese photographer Nino Migliori. This project is realized in collaboration with the Nino Migliori Foundation, an artist who has been represented internationally by the gallery since 2017.
“SEVENTY” not only evokes the decade in which all the works were created, but also honors Nino Migliori’s extraordinary artistic production spanning over seventy years. The exhibition project delves into the period when the artist engaged in profound contemplations on photography as a means of expression. Highlighting its profoundly experimental essence, the exhibition offers a cross-sectional overview of the extensive body of work by one of the most influential masters of 20th-century European photography, showcasing dozens of images, including many unreleased vintage pieces.
While diverse in subject matter and theme, the photographic works showcased maintain a profound coherence within the broader artistic vision.
The exhibition journey begins with evocative reflections on Nature (“Herbarium”) and urban life (“Muri” [“Walls”], “Manifesti Strappati” [“Torn Posters”]), themes that, through Migliori’s sensitive gaze, emerge as potent witnesses to the mutability of time and the transient nature of human existence. It then delves into a contemplation of the photographic medium itself – a milestone of Migliori’s production since his beginnings in the 1940s – investigated through examinations of light (“Lucigrafie” [“Light Writings”], “Polarigrammi” [“Polarographies”]) and experiments on perception and materiality, often seen as reflections of social change (“Natura Morta” [“Still Life”], “Sesso Kitsch” [“Kitsch Sex”], “Sequenze TV” [“TV Sequences”]). Finally, the exhibition path concludes with pieces characterized by a more explicitly and formally ‘conceptual’ approach (“In immagin abile” [“Un imagin able”], “Segnificazione”), and at times, a performative one (“SuPerDaCon”).
“SEVENTY” showcases a Nino Migliori who transcends his renowned Neorealism, undeniably irreverent yet always discreet, an attentive and analytical observer with a keen perceptual sensitivity. For Migliori, photography is – and continues to be – a subject of profound fascination, and through his eyes, we rediscover its endless potentials and nuances.
The exhibition, accompanied by a catalog published by M77 with an introductory text by critic and curator Ascanio Kurkumelis, will be open to the public from June 18 to September 21, 2024, at M77 Gallery, via Mecenate 77. Visitors can attend from Tuesday to Saturday, 11 AM to 7 PM.
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