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Between 1990 and 1998, Guido GUIDI made five separate trips to Milan and its surrounding areas. This photo volume, 'Cinque Viaggi. 1990-98' brings together the photographs made there, forming an investigation of one city and its peripheries in the throes of economic and social transformation. As Guido GUIDI follows the canal from out in the suburbs toward the city centre, his attention and visual language move from the vernacular to the metropolitan, from wider horizontal views to vertical ‘cuts’ in the urban fabric, from entire buildings and scenes to glimpsed façades and doorways. Along the way, we also encounter inhabitants: a group of young men gathered in a Pasolini-like scene on a bridge in the city’s outskirts; occasional passers-by working, shopping, or stopping to smoke on the city streets; disconnected couples and disparate individuals whose loose citizenship coheres the urban sprawl. While previous photo volumes, such as 'Per Strada' (2018) and 'Tra l'altro' (2020), demonstrated Guido GUIDI fascination with the rural and small-town landscapes of his native region, the volume 'Cinque Viaggi. 1990-98' turns to metropolitan Italy, documenting the dramatic socio-economic changes that have transformed it over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Remnants of rural civilization and traces of urban expansion are embedded among the first signs of de-industrialization.
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These 110 large-format works in the photo volume 'Cinque Viaggi. 1990-98' by Guidi GUDI, many of which have never been seen before, reveal the layers of social and architectural history among which everyday life unfolds. The photo volume 'Cinque viaggi' by Guido GUIDI offers an arrestingly subtle picture of Italy's recent past and rumination on its future. Including essays by Corrado Benigni, Antonello Frongia, and Roberta Valtorta.
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"The city seen by Guido GUIDI ... is a universe that is realistic, unresolved, and suspended all at once, an interior landscape made up of presences, absences, silences, and seductions ... Guido GUIDI has opened the doors onto renewed dimensions of photography with an enormous influence on the new generation." (© Esquire Italia)
"Even the most central streets appear peripheral: as far away from monuments as they are from headlines. It is here that that which we are are looking for hides." (© Il Foglio)