In September 2015, the contemporary art collector and friend of Querini Stampalia, Roberto Lombardi, entrusted a nucleus of works by Luigi Ghirri to the Venetian institution as a loan.

The fund has thirty-one photos, mostly from the group called “Il profilo delle nuvole,” dating between 1985 and 1990.

The series is conceived as an “artist’s book”: a story devoid of characters about the Po Valley landscape between Veneto, Emilia and Lombardia. While revisiting the photographed places, the author does not take into account the topographic dislocation but rather follows a path inside associative memory: melancholy, and a sense of enchantment and suspension are the feelings that animate his voyage.

Once computerized and classified, the “Ghirri Fund” will be preserved among the Library's rare and precious materials and made available to researchers.

Over time, it will suggest a number of research activities, in-depth analyses, combinations, comparisons and thematic incentives, inspired by the extraordinary visual sensitivity of this Italian artist.

A new series of notebooks, thanks to the collaboration of Galleria Massimo Minini in Brescia, will periodically  publish the considerations resulting from this research.