October 7, 2026

For Turin Art Week, Studioata presents Bal des pompiers. Turin, Paris and other places imagined by Fulvio Ventura, a photography exhibition curated by Giorgio Cellini.
Alongside the photographs, around twenty watercolors by Fulvio Ventura, created on the small pages of Lumbo planners, will be on display.

Speaking of these photographs, Fulvio Ventura said: I was struck by a certain kind of architecture, especially in Paris, but also in Italy, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which could be defined as pre-Art Nouveau – though part of Art Nouveau can remain in this framework, which I referred to ‘neobabylonian’ but that we could more simply qualify as ‘Pompier’.

The exhibition opening will take place on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30 PM, at Studioata, via Belfiore 36, Turin.
The exhibition will remain open until December 29, 2026.

A guided tour led by exhibition curator Giorgio Cellini will be available on Saturday morning, October 31, Saturday morning, November 21, and Saturday, December 12, by appointment (please email gc@giorgiocellini.com).

March 13, 2025

Upcoming events:

London: Tuesday, March 25 at 6:30 p.m., presentation of the re-edition of the book Viaggio in Italia, at The Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies St., London W1F 7LW.

Istanbul: Thursday, April 24, inauguration of the exhibition Viaggio in Italia at National Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi, Binbirdirek Mahallesi, Meydanı Caddesi 12, 34122 Sultanahmet, İstanbul.
The exhibition will close on May 28, 2025.

Bari: Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m., presentation of the re-edition of the book Viaggio in Italia, at Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari, Via Spalato 19, 70121 Bari.

London 11 February 2025
Exhibition and presentation of the re-edition of the book Viaggio in Italia, at the Italian Cultural Institute, on the 40th anniversary of its first publication.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Tuesday 12 February at 6:30 pm at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX.
Speeches by Francesco Bongarrà, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Davide Rondoni, President of MuFoCo, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Gabriella Guerci, Director of MuFoCo, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Matteo Balduzzi, curator of the exhibition.

The exhibition will close on 28 March 2025.

Milan, February 6, 2025
Presentation of the re-edition of the book Viaggio in Italia, at the Pinacoteca di Brera, on the 40th anniversary of the first publication.

The presentation will take place Thursday, February 6 at 5:30 pm in the Aldo Bassetti room, Pinacoteca di Brera, via Brera 28, 20121 Milan.
Introduction by Angelo Crespi, Director of the Pinacoteca di Brera, Angelo Piero Cappello, General Director of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, Davide Rondoni, President of MuFoCo, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Adele Ghirri, of the Archivio Eredi di Luigi Ghirri.
Round table between photographers Olivio Barbieri, Gianatonio Battistella, Vincenzo Castella and Andrea Cavazzuti.
Moderator Matteo Balduzzi, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Rome, December 13, 2024
Presentation of the re-edition of the book Viaggio in Italia, at the MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, on the 40th anniversary of its first publication.

The presentation will take place Friday, December 13 at 6:30 pm in the Carlo Scarpa room of the MAXXI, via Guido Reni 4a, 00196 Rome.
Introduction by Lorenza Baroncelli, Director of the Maxxi.
Speakers Angelo Piero Cappello, General Director of Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, Davide Rondoni, President of MuFoCo, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Adele Ghirri, of the Archivio Eredi di Luigi Ghirri, and Vittore Fossati, Guido Guidi and Gianni Leone, photographers.
Moderator Matteo Balduzzi, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Paris, 7-8 November 2024
Exhibition and presentation of the anastatic reissue of the book Viaggio in Italia, from 1984, published at the time by the publishing house Il Quadrante and re-edition by the publishing house Edizioni Quodlibet.

The exhibition celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Viaggio in Italia, the photographic project conceived by Luigi Ghirri in 1984, considered a milestone in the history of contemporary Italian photography, and presents the 86 images contained in the original book reprinted in an anastatic copy. In the new edition, all the details of the original book are faithfully preserved, adopting the design, the layout of the text and the sequence of the original images, the material properties and the size of the pages.

The celebration of the 40th anniversary of the book Viaggio in Italia is promoted by MuFoCo, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, with the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Archivio Ghirri and the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris, and with the participation of the MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris.

Thursday, November 7th at 6:00 pm at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris, 50 Rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris: inauguration of the exhibition Viaggio in Italia, curated by Matteo Balduzzi.
Friday, November 8th at 6:00 pm at the MEP, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 5/7 Rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris: presentation of the anastatic reissue of the volume Viaggio in Italia. Round table discussion between photographers Olivio Barbieri, Gianantonio Battistella, Mario Cresci and Claude Nori. Moderator Matteo Balduzzi, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

The exhibition will close on January 8, 2025.

August 15, 2023

As part of the Sacreselve Festival, in Ghiffa (Verbania) from September 15 to 17, 2023, an exhibition of photographs by Fulvio Ventura, with the Verbano region as their theme, will be opened in the Cappella dell’Incoronata, with the title Dalla parte della natura.

May 15, 2023

A new gallery of black and white photographs has been added to the Fulvio Ventura website

May 3, 2023

From May 31, 2023 to September 3, 2023, four original photo stamps by Fulvio Ventura will be exhibited to the Scuderie del Quirinale, in Roma, as part of exhibition L’Italia è un desiderio

April 13, 2023

From April 28, 2023 to February 2024, eight original prints of photographs by Fulvio Ventura, in 40×40 format, will be exhibited at the Palace of Museums in Reggio Emilia (Italy), via Spallanzani 1, as part of the exhibition Un piede nell’Eden. The photographs, kept in the photographic archive of the Biblioteca Panizzi, are part of the 1988 collective exhibition Giardini in Europa, and were taken in Gordes, Paris, Urbino, Naples, Lyon and Salzburg.

March 7, 2023

On the occasion of the third anniversary of the disappearance of Fulvio Ventura, two new galleries were added: Archivio dello Spazio, images of three municipalities in the province of Milan, and Vulcano, Images of this island of the Archipelago of the Aeoliennes.

October 24, 2021

The book Sagacity by Fulvio Ventura was presented in Milan on 20 October 2021 at 18:30, at the Galleria San Fedele, via Ulrico Hoepli 3a.

Organized by Giulia Zorzi of the Micamera bookshop, in the presence of Fulvio’s partner, Anna de Lorenzi, of the publisher Mike Slack, (The Ice Plant), of the photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte and by Roberta Valtorta, historian and critic of Italian photography. Moderated by Luca Fiore, journalist.

June 30, 2021

After almost 50 years of waiting, here is finally Sagacity by Fulvio Ventura.
The result of a work begun in 1975, the publication of most of these images was expected as early as 1978, when Luigi Ghirri announced the release of Souvenir(s), which never happened due to the failure of the Punto e Virgola publishing house.

Sagacity, Sunstar and Salamandra was the original and complete title, as read a brass plaque found by chance in a printing shop. A work that Ventura then continued to transform, guided by a passion for esoteric philosophy, mystery, chance, jazz music and surrealist and mythological literature.

The sequence of this monograph is curated by Giulia Zorzi of Micamera, and is the result of numerous meetings with the author at his home in Ghiffa, on Lake Maggiore, abruptly interrupted by Ventura’s death on March 7, 2020. The design is by Jason Fulford.

The images collected here were taken over many years in different places in Europe; at the same time instantaneous and intentional, mysterious and ironic, often surprisingly cinematic, make up a coherent and autonomous metaphysical universe, governed by visible and invisible forces.

The Ice Plant Editions, 2021 – 1st edition of 500 copies
Hard cover, 26 x 18 cm – 64 pages, 33 black and white photographs
price: 33 €

You can find this book at the Micamera bookshop, via Medardo Rosso 19, 20159 Milan
or order it on the Micamera website: https://www.micamera.com/prodotto/sagacity-fulvio-ventura/

June 14, 2021

Seven new photographs have been added to the color album Fugitive visions