Guido Guidi 1969-82

Sobre el libro Guido Guidi 1969-82 de publicado por Mack al 2026:

The second volume in a trilogy of dynamically sequenced collections of Guido Guidi’s early black-and-white photography Made among family friends in northern Italy, these images capture everyday situations in fragmentary and graphic compositions inflected by informalism and Pop art Guidi sequences these historic images to form an immersive and contemporary whole: an alternative family album that invokes and subverts photography’s everyday uses GUIDO GUIDI Album, 1969–82 PHOTOGRAPHY While organising his archive, Guido Guidi rediscovered negatives and prints from a prolifically productive period at the beginning of his career. These photographs, made with black-and-white film and small-format cameras, captured his day-to- day life in the 1970s – his family and friends, his colleagues at the University of Architecture in Venice – but also more fragmented and even abstract scenes: objects in disarming isolation, shadows, symbols, and deserted streets. High contrast and disorienting framing made many of these images as graphic as they were documentary. Some were marked with the remnants of captions, half- smudged notes, and other signs of their lives within previous sequences and contexts. Taking up a title he had used for a number of projects at that time, including a never-realised publication with Luigi Ghirri’s Punto e Virgola, Guidi constructed a new ‘album’: a fresh engagement with historic work, drawing on the anarchic energy and interests of his youth and the shrewd, sensitive instincts of an expert editor. The resulting book brings together the everyday with the bizarre, the recognisable with the ambiguous, in a bracingly contemporary new work from a modern master. Album, 1969–82 is the second of three complementary volumes engaging with Guidi’s black-and-white work from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s, offering luminous insight into the development of his practice and an expanded exploration of photography between art and functionality, realism and surrealism, truth and fabrication. Hardcover with tipped-in image 30 x 24 cm, 160 pages €75 £65 US$85 AU$150 February 2026