PER STRADA by Guido Guidi - Signed Photography Book | Limited Edition Art Collection for Home Decor & Gift Giving

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Wim Wenders1975――

DUE FOTOGRAFI PER IL TEATRO BONCI19831986Esplorazioni sulla Via Emilia

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The Financial Times

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Frieze

Per Strada brings together photographs made by Guido Guidi from 1980 to 1994, along the Via Emilia – an ancient Italian road connecting Milan with the Adriatic Sea, which passes close to Guidi's home. To this day, the Via Emilia is the territorial backbone of the Southern tier of the Po Valley, running through mid-size cities such as Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, Forlì, and Rimini. Using an 8x10 inch camera, Guidi directs his lens towards the “interstices” between cities rather than on historical centres. His three-volume book charts a rich palimpsest of signs in the landscape built from centuries of residential, agricultural, industrial, and commercial activity. Guidi’s project on the Via Emilia began in the environs of his hometown, Cesena. For the Italian artist, photographing everyday landscapes is a way to acknowledge the importance of the vernacular, but also to break free from one’s own stereotypes, ideas, and constraints. As he has stated, “At a certain moment I felt pushed to leave my room, like in Wim Wenders’ film ‘The Wrong Move’ (1975), when Wilhelm breaks the windowpane with the palm of his hand and leaves the house. I leave the house and what do I find? A house, an entrance door, a woman who passes by or who asks me something.” Photographs from this book were partly published in a book made in collaboration with and edited by Guidi, Due fotografi per il Teatro Bonci (1983). The body of work continued with individual and collective projects, including the 1986 group exhibition Esplorazioni sulla Via Emilia.

“A leading voice in the resurgence of Italian photography of the 1970s and 1980s” – The Financial Times

"Guidi’s thoughtful, descriptive approach generates a rich visual archive of Italy’s natural and artificial landscapes of the past half century" – Frieze