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Massimo Vitali, Carcavelos Pier, 2016. Lightjet C-Print from direct file in Diasec Mount, 241 x 180 cm (unframed) Courtesy Mazzoleni London Torino
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Massimo Vitali, Cefalù Orange Yellow Blue, 2008. Lightjet C-Print from Negative Scan in Diasec Mount, 228 x 180cm (unframed), Courtesy Mazzoleni London Torino
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Massimo Vitali, Catania Under the Volcano, 2007. Lightjet C-Print from Negative Scan in Diasec Mount, 228 x 180 cm (unframed), Courtesy Mazzoleni London Torino
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Massimo Vitali, Picnic Allée, 2000. Lightjet C-Print from Negative Scan in Diasec Mount, 189 x 151 cm (unframed)|, Courtesy Mazzoleni London Torino
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Massimo Vitali, Cala Llosa South, 2016. Lightjet C-Print from direct file in Diasec Mount, 189 x 151cm (unframed) Courtesy Mazzoleni London Torino
Exhibition
Massimo Vitali: Short Stories
12 Apr 2019 – 24 May 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 15 Old Bond Street
- Mayfair
- London
England - W1S 4AX
- United Kingdom
Mazzoleni is pleased to announce the exhibition Massimo Vitali: Short Stories curated by Mirta d’Argenzio. This is will be the first time that Mazzoleni presents a solo fine art photography exhibition at their London gallery.
About
Short Stories will display images collected in a new book of the same name, produced by Steidl Verlag publishing. Twelve of Vitali's most outstanding photographs from different series will be presented, where each singular image depicts a significant moment for Vitali – the artist’s ‘short stories’ of a long and distinguished career.
Vitali is internationally renowned for his large-scale colour images of beaches and mass leisure events. His distinctive panoramic views show people interacting with their environments and one another. His sweeping panoramas, crowded plazas, even discotheques, examine and elucidate the masses at leisure.
In the early 1960s, Vitali worked as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. By the 1980s, he changed career path and worked as a cinematographer. However, his relationship with the still photography camera never ceased, and he eventually turned his attention back to photography. By 1993, Massimo Vitali immersed himself within a fine art photography practice and started to use large format film cameras to photograph Italy’s sunny beaches to intently observe the inner and exterior lives of the nation’s people. In addition to his personal research, he has also produced commissioned editorial work for leading periodicals such as M le Magazine du Monde, The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine and The New Yorker.
The selection of twelve works for Short Stories was decided following many conversations with curators and collaborators who profoundly know his photography. The carefully curated selection reflects his particular style of artistic research over more than 25 years of working in large format film photography and recently also in middle format digital. The different images unfold in a changing world, capturing the landscapes depicted and the human interaction within.
Massimo Vitali's work is presented in several museums including, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, MUSAC, Castilla y León,Spain, the Guggenheim Museum, New York City,USA, Fond National Art Contemporaine, theCentre Pompidou, the Centre National des Arts Plastique, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, France and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austriaand Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. His work can be found within the collections of Volkswagen, Elton John, Cisneros, Cameron Diaz, UBS and J. Walter Thompson.
