Galleria Raffaella Cortese is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to the Milanese photographer Franco Vimercati, the protagonist of the launch of the gallery activity in 1995.

Fifteen years after the artist’s death and following two recent presentations in public institutions such as the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2014) and Palazzo Fortuny in Venice (2012), the exhibition takes place in all three gallery spaces, bringing together three significant moments of the photographer’s work, whose personal research is substantial for the history of Italian photography of the late 20th century.

Born in 1940, Franco Vimercati was a meticulous and essential photographer, an interpreter of stillness and the repetitive nature of reality. His interest has always been directed towards images that – despite being apparently simple – open up a research on photography that originates from elements taken from reality. His approach is characterised by the delicacy of his language, that talks about the intricacy of existing and his favourite subjects are the ones belonging to every-day life, common objects that start a wide consideration on vision and the photographic gesture. Vimercati was sensitive to the new artistic discoveries and along the years he has been compared to artists linked to minimalism – such as Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin – and conceptual art, as Giulio Paolini. Ugo Mulas and Luigi Ghirri were important references, too.