from 15.05.2021 to 31.06.2021
On the occasion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, the Bugno Art Gallery resumes its programming with Luca Campigotto’s solo show entitled American Elegy. Five years after its last exhibition in our spaces, a new project and a new book which, as the title suggests, is posed as a lyrical representation of a timeless America. A journey of memory, “on the road” through the boundless West of myth, full of references to that literary and cinematographic imagery so dear to the author. The majesty of the canyons of Monument Valley, the Hopperian silence of the outskirts of Montana, the evocative desolation of the “ghost towns” of California and Wyoming with their abandoned buildings and car graveyards. After having immortalized the nocturnal atmosphere of New York in Gotham City (2012) and the double identity of China, poised between tradition and futuristic momentum, in Iconic China (2017), Campigotto returns to tell us about America through the usual evocative force of his shots which, in homage to the tradition of the great American photography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – from Mathew Brady to Carleton Watkins, from Timothy O’Sullivan to Walker Ewans – bring us back to the true soul of those places steeped in history, expectation and spirit of adventure.
On display will be 17 large-format photographs selected from the 70 present in the volume published by Silvana Editoriale, with critical texts by Walter Guadagnini, Mauro Pala and Roberto Puggioni. The catalog will be available in the gallery during the duration of the exhibition and in all bookstores from the end of May.
