Guido Guidi is a pioneer of the new Italian landscape photography. He was a student of Italo Zannier and, by the end of the Sixties, he began to experiment with the objectivity of photography through ‘documentary’ images and concentrated on the investigation of the true meaning of the act of observation. In the Seventies, influenced by Italian Neorealist cinema and by Conceptual art, he explored the man-altered Italian landscapes and directed his attention to the marginal and anti-spectacular areas of the Italian suburbs. Afterwards, his research extended to Modernist architecture, which he has documented extensively through projects focusing on the works of Carlo Scarpa, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. By the end of the Eighties, he had devoted himself to teaching at the Fine Arts Academy of Ravenna, at the ISIA of Urbino and at the IUAV in Venice, where he had previously studied architecture. Guido Guidi’s works have been exhibited in many prestigious photography and contemporary art museums all over the world – among them, the Fotomuseum Winterthur; the Guggenheim and the Whitney Museum in New York; the Centre Pompidou; the Huis Marseille Museum in Amsterdam; the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris; the Venice Biennale; the MAXXI and the ICCD in Rome and the Fondation A Stichting in Bruxelles. His work has also been the subject of several solo and collective publications.
Furthermore, a great number of his works are part of the collections of many Italian and international institutions, including the Bibliothèque National and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Centre for Studies and Communication Archive of the University of Parma, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, the ICCD in Rome, the Fondation A Stichting in Bruxelles, the National Gallery of Aesthetic Arts in Beijing, the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
