Coinciding with a major retrospective exhibition at MAXXI, Rome, Col tempo, 1956-2024 provides a complete and long-awaited retrospective of the career of Guido Guidi, sequenced by the artist himself in his typically illuminating, associative style.
The book begins with some of the earliest photographs Guidi made, aged fifteen, in the countryside around his home in Cesena in the Italian region of Romagna.
The sequence that follows, covering almost seventy years, encompasses a wide range of styles, forms, and approaches as it traces the evolution of one of the most important voices in contemporary photography. It includes journeys to the USA, Russia, Turkey, and
Portugal, and studies of the works of architects including Carlo Scarpa, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.
Consistently, though, it returns to the modest agricultural landscapes where Guidi was born and still lives and works today, among which he has developed the revelatory visual language for which he is celebrated as a modern master.
Guido Guidi (b. 1941, Cesena) lives and works in Cesena. His work has focused on rural and suburban landscapes in Italy and Europe. Guidi's photographs have been exhibited extensively, including at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2014); Venice Biennale (2004); Canadian Centre for Architecture (2001); Guggenheim Museum, New York (1994); and Centre Pompidou, Paris (1989), among other institutions. He has published numerous books with MACK including Di sguincio, 1969-81 (2023), Per Strada (2018), Veramente (2014), and Preganziol (2013). Since 1986 Guidi has taught photography at various Italian universities, and since 2001 he has been a visiting professor at IUAV, Venice.