Viasaterna is pleased to participate in Artissima 2025 with the works of Guido Guidi (Cesena, 1941) and Monologue/Dialogue section.
The Artissima 2025 exhibition project features a solo presentation of works by the renowned Italian photographer Guido Guidi (Cesena, Italy, 1941), a key figure of a new photographic language, who documented from the mid-1960s, the transformation of the territory and the emergence of a new Italian landscape.
His practice is characterized by a deliberate focus on marginal and peripheral territories, eschewing well-known cultural landmarks in favour of a more nuanced, itinerant exploration. Over the decades, Guidi has profoundly influenced a successive generation of photographers —many of whom regard him as a master— while also inviting broader audiences to reconsider how they perceive and interpret the surrounding environment.
His photographic journey focuses primary on ordinary places, captured with a Deardorff 8x10 large-format view camera, presented here as single images or diptychs, that frequently belongs to much broader projects like the rural and urban terrain near his home in Cesena (Northern Italy), the landscapes of the Romea Road (1975-1990), the Via Emilia, or the Brion Tomb by Carlo Scarpa (1997-2007).
Alongside his extensive work of rural landscapes, a selection of his black and white facades from the 70’s and 80’s, using a Hasselblad 6x6 camera, will also be featured in the booth.
Alternating C-type and Gelatin silver prints, some of them featured in his major anthological exhibition Col tempo, on display at MAXXI in Rome (until April 2025), the selection of photographs chosen in collaboration with Guidi, draw on the underlying vision in his work of the transformation of contemporary landscape and the passage of time.
Artissima
Monologue/Dialogue
Pink B, Booth 20
31st October - 2nd November 2025
OVAL, Lingotto Fiere
Via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70,
10126 Torino
The Artissima 2025 exhibition project features a solo presentation of works by the renowned Italian photographer Guido Guidi (Cesena, Italy, 1941), a key figure of a new photographic language, who documented from the mid-1960s, the transformation of the territory and the emergence of a new Italian landscape.
His practice is characterized by a deliberate focus on marginal and peripheral territories, eschewing well-known cultural landmarks in favour of a more nuanced, itinerant exploration. Over the decades, Guidi has profoundly influenced a successive generation of photographers —many of whom regard him as a master— while also inviting broader audiences to reconsider how they perceive and interpret the surrounding environment.
His photographic journey focuses primary on ordinary places, captured with a Deardorff 8x10 large-format view camera, presented here as single images or diptychs, that frequently belongs to much broader projects like the rural and urban terrain near his home in Cesena (Northern Italy), the landscapes of the Romea Road (1975-1990), the Via Emilia, or the Brion Tomb by Carlo Scarpa (1997-2007).
Alongside his extensive work of rural landscapes, a selection of his black and white facades from the 70’s and 80’s, using a Hasselblad 6x6 camera, will also be featured in the booth.
Alternating C-type and Gelatin silver prints, some of them featured in his major anthological exhibition Col tempo, on display at MAXXI in Rome (until April 2025), the selection of photographs chosen in collaboration with Guidi, draw on the underlying vision in his work of the transformation of contemporary landscape and the passage of time.
Artissima
Monologue/Dialogue
Pink B, Booth 20
31st October - 2nd November 2025
OVAL, Lingotto Fiere
Via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70,
10126 Torino