From May 7 to July 27, 2025, the 10·Corso·Como Gallery in Milan will host Da un’altra parte (“Elsewhere”), a major solo exhibition by the influential Italian photographer Guido Guidi. Curated by Alessandro Rabottini, the exhibition offers an immersive journey through five decades of Guidi’s photographic exploration, with a focus on the poetic and conceptual role of shadow in visual storytelling.
Guido Guidi, born in Cesena in 1941, is renowned for his introspective and rigorous approach to photography. Since the 1960s, Guidi has challenged conventional aesthetics by focusing his lens on marginal, everyday, and anti-monumental subjects—urban peripheries, worn facades, empty billboards, and anonymous interiors. Through his lens, even the most banal surface becomes a site of contemplation.
The exhibition Da un’altra parte brings together a wide selection of images from the early 1970s through 2023. Rather than adhering to strict chronology or thematic separation, the curatorial approach favors poetic juxtaposition. Each image—extracted from broader photographic series—is presented in dialogue with others, forming a constellation of visual echoes. At the center of this constellation is the shadow, not merely as an absence of light, but as a dynamic intersection of space, time, and memory.
Guidi’s treatment of shadow is emblematic of his broader concerns: the transience of perception, the impermanence of architecture, and the ephemeral nature of human presence. His photographs—often devoid of people or populated by fleeting figures—explore the boundaries between appearance and disappearance. In some works, Guidi’s own shadow enters the frame, emphasizing the act of seeing and the physical presence of the photographer.
Highlights include meditative images such as Ronta 11/08/1999, a series capturing the stages of a solar eclipse, and still lifes from his home-studio, where the line between abstraction and documentation blurs. Whether portraying the play of light on a crumbling wall or a narrow road disappearing into mist, Guidi’s photographs are exercises in attentiveness and restraint.
Curator Alessandro Rabottini notes that Guidi’s work echoes a lineage of Italian visual culture—from Piero della Francesca to Giorgio Morandi, Luigi Ghirri, and filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni. In their shared silence and formal clarity, these artists articulate a philosophy of observation and ethical minimalism.
The exhibition also reinforces 10·Corso·Como’s role as a cultural hub in Milan, supporting photography, fashion, and design. Since its opening in 1991, the venue has become synonymous with cross-disciplinary creativity. Under Tiziana Fausti’s direction, it continues to offer space for reflection, innovation, and artistic exchange.
Admission to Da un’altra parte is free, and the exhibition is open daily from 10:30am to 7:30pm. It is an unmissable event for anyone interested in contemporary photography, Italian visual culture, and the quiet power of the everyday seen through an exceptional lens.
