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This book covers the last twenty years of artistic research by one of the leading contemporary Italian photographers: Walter Niedermayr. Through the recurring themes of his work such as Alpine landscapes, architecture and the relationship between public and private spaces, the artist’s interest in investigating places not only from a geographical but also from a social point of view is highlighted.
Although in continuity with the legacy of the Italian photographic tradition, which views the landscape as the key to interpreting society, Niedermayr’s visual research is significant in terms of its ability to reinterpret this subject and renew it from both a conceptual and a formal point of view. For the South Tyrolean photographer, physical space today cannot be approached with an exclusively documentary intention, but as the pivot of a transformative relationship between ecology, architecture and society.
With around fifty large-format works, often presented in the formula of the diptych and triptych and characterized by low contrast and neutral shades, this project tells us about a simultaneity of human and non-human activities, which coexist and find an unstable balance in constant change.

Turin, CAMERA, luglio - ottobre 2021

Contents

Transformations
Walter Guadagnini

Works

List of works

Spatializations
Catherine Grout

Geology of surfaces
Stefano Chiodi

Biographies

Exhibitions (selected)