"The analogous mountain" Michelangelo Antonioni and Luigi Ghirri at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

The Analog Mountain is an exhibition conceived in the fashion of an unfinished visual essay, the inconclusiveness of which, far from responding to misfortune or accidental circumstance, arises from the desire to explore the artistic practice of Michelangelo Antonioni (Ferrara, 1912 - Rome, 2007) and Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, 1943 - Roncocesi, 1992) based on the infinite affinities between the cinematographic production of one and the photographic production of the other. It is a catalog of analogies, approaches, and common, serene, imperceptible gestures characteristic of how both artists reflect on that part of human existence that unfolds beyond the gaze, expressed in silence, and seeks to fill some of its voids. A way of being, existing, and acting in the world of which this exhibition only shows the tip of an iceberg. Or the peak of a mountain. Or, even better, the representation of the peak of an idea of a mountain.

Antonioni and Ghirri, born with a thirty-one-year difference in two different cities of the same region in northern Italy separated by little more than a hundred kilometers of road and some mid-altitude mountains that do not exceed 500 meters, are two artists who, although they did not meet in life, forged their perspectives on the plains, were educated in the wide-ranging vision of downpours and rivers, and outlined their conceptual and formal horizons by freely traversing that mist-covered area through which thought and imagination flow.

Through a selection of no more than forty images from the series of Enchanted Mountains by Antonioni?emerging in the sixties under his attentive gaze on his work table?and the early work of Ghirri?carried out in the seventies during his journeys through the Po Valley seeking what happened beyond a fleeting glance?this exhibition stems from a search born of intuition, traverses the terrain of a presentiment, embraces the idea of a mountain, and shares what has been perceived between the walls of the same space. It is a pause on the path to remain, from there, in a state of "desiring," always awaiting something.

It can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday and holidays, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.