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Guido Guidi.
Cesena, 1941. Lives and works in Cesena.
Guido Guidi is considered one of the most important Italian photographers. In 1956 he moved to Venice to study architecture at IUAV, where he attended the courses of Luigi Veronesi, Carlo Scarpa, and Italo Zannier. It was within the vibrant cultural climate of those Venetian years that he decided to devote himself to photography, focusing on the marginal and unspectacular elements of the Italian landscape. His work on the spontaneous architecture of eastern Romagna, on the Via Romea connecting Cesena to Venice, and later on the industrial areas of Porto Marghera and Ravenna, turns to liminal places familiar to the photographer, characterized by an open and curious approach. Beginning in the late 1960s, Guidi developed significant research on landscape and its transformations, experimenting with the very language of photography. Among these are Archivio dello spazio (1991), the work on Ina-Casa public housing projects (1999), and Atlante Italiano (curated by the General Directorate for Architecture and Contemporary Art). In 1989, together with Paolo Costantini and William Guerrieri, he founded Borderline per la Fotografia Contemporanea in Rubiera. That same year he began teaching Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna and, since 2001, at IUAV in Venice. Among his main monographs are: Di Sguincio (MACK, 2023), Cinque Viaggi (MACK, 2021), Lunario (MACK, 2019), Per Strada (MACK, 2018), Veramente (MACK, 2014), Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Tomb (Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011), Fiume (Fantombooks, Milan, 2010), and Varianti (Art &, Udine, 1995). His works have been exhibited in prestigious Italian and international institutions and are part of important public collections, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, the MAN Museo d’Arte in Nuoro, the Venice Art and Architecture Biennale, the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello Balsamo, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and theUniversity of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque. Following the solo exhibition Col Tempo – Nei dintorni di Carlo Scarpa, Guido Guidi has been represented by Viasaterna, Milan. In December 2024, the MAXXI in Rome dedicated to him the major retrospective Col tempo, 1956–2024, which also opened in Paris in 2026 at LE BAL.
Cesena, 1941. Lives and works in Cesena.
Guido Guidi is considered one of the most important Italian photographers. In 1956 he moved to Venice to study architecture at IUAV, where he attended the courses of Luigi Veronesi, Carlo Scarpa, and Italo Zannier. It was within the vibrant cultural climate of those Venetian years that he decided to devote himself to photography, focusing on the marginal and unspectacular elements of the Italian landscape. His work on the spontaneous architecture of eastern Romagna, on the Via Romea connecting Cesena to Venice, and later on the industrial areas of Porto Marghera and Ravenna, turns to liminal places familiar to the photographer, characterized by an open and curious approach. Beginning in the late 1960s, Guidi developed significant research on landscape and its transformations, experimenting with the very language of photography. Among these are Archivio dello spazio (1991), the work on Ina-Casa public housing projects (1999), and Atlante Italiano (curated by the General Directorate for Architecture and Contemporary Art). In 1989, together with Paolo Costantini and William Guerrieri, he founded Borderline per la Fotografia Contemporanea in Rubiera. That same year he began teaching Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna and, since 2001, at IUAV in Venice. Among his main monographs are: Di Sguincio (MACK, 2023), Cinque Viaggi (MACK, 2021), Lunario (MACK, 2019), Per Strada (MACK, 2018), Veramente (MACK, 2014), Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Tomb (Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011), Fiume (Fantombooks, Milan, 2010), and Varianti (Art &, Udine, 1995). His works have been exhibited in prestigious Italian and international institutions and are part of important public collections, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, the MAN Museo d’Arte in Nuoro, the Venice Art and Architecture Biennale, the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello Balsamo, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and theUniversity of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque. Following the solo exhibition Col Tempo – Nei dintorni di Carlo Scarpa, Guido Guidi has been represented by Viasaterna, Milan. In December 2024, the MAXXI in Rome dedicated to him the major retrospective Col tempo, 1956–2024, which also opened in Paris in 2026 at LE BAL.
Exhibitions
![The Subject Matters, group exhibition 21st January - 4th April 2025]()
![Gradi di Vuoto 5th of December - 12th of February 2021]()
![Guido Guidi. Altre Storie 2nd April - 24th May 2019]()
![Col Tempo 14th October - 3rd December 2015]()
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