Maurizio Galimberti and Paolo Ludovici continue their reflection between history and time, beginning in 2020 with the book “Uno sguardo nel labirinto della Storia”.
At the splendid headquarter of Cartier, in Via Montenapoleone – Milan, with the presence of important national and international newspapers, has been presented the prestigious Art Book “L’illusione di una Storia senza Futuro” published by Skira Editore, the excellent result of the meticulous work of the Great “Maestro” Maurizio Galimberti.
The internationally renowned Artist Maurizio Galimberti is famous for creating and working almost exclusively with Polaroids, with which he has developed a highly personal manipulation technique that breaks down and recomposes images.
An itinerary that touched on themes of great importance and sensitivity in which Maestro Maurizio Galimberti presented this important project from both a human and a professional point of view, expressing and mentioning with a worthy note of artistic emotion how touching it was to interpret and create these works that narrate and speak of what are indelible signs of history.
Thus, in this book, the disinfestation of Wuhan in 2020, after the pandemic explosion of COVID-19, becomes in Galimberti’s re-edition almost an image of dystopian science fiction, with a human figure in a mask and blue overalls at the centre of a composition that fades at the edges into the blinding whiteness of the fumes and disinfectant substances sprayed by health workers, while the front page of a newspaper calling for “Hurry up” after the trauma of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake becomes a pastiche in which the word almost loses its legibility next to the maelstrom of black and white images of the rubble caused by the earthquake.
The images selected by Maurizio Galimberti and Paolo Ludovici to move through the memories imprinted in the labyrinth of history are almost always painful: If we exclude the photo of Nelson Mandela meeting Muhammad Ali or the image of Pope Wojtyla standing next to a white dove, or the one showing Mother Teresa of Calcutta with a baby in her arms, the other images bring to mind the 1995 Srebrenica massacre or the November 2003 Nassiriya attacks.
Also touching are the sequences of bodies from the 2004 tsunami in Thailand and the Indian Ocean, the chemical attack on the Kurdish population in Halabja by the Iraqi army in 1988, or the desperate cries of the children in the Balukhali refugee camp in Myanmar portrayed in Kevin Frayer’s brutal and powerful shots, and on to the harrowing images documenting the attempts to escape from Kabul, recaptured by the Taliban in August 2021.
History… our past, our present and a future that looks to the young generation, to whom Maestro Galimberti’s thoughts turn with a paternal and affectionate sense that cannot help but think of a positive and sunny future.
“L’illusione di una Storia senza Futuro “ – (The illusion of a story without a future), a masterpiece that is a life journey, an excellent piece of art history that is rightfully one of the books to be collected.
More about @ Maurizio Galimberti (Como, 1956) has been active on the international art scene for more than thirty years, known all over the world not only for the characteristic poetry of his projects but also for his portraits of stars such as Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp and Umberto Eco, and for having produced publications and site-specific exhibitions in New York, Paris, Milan, Rome and Venice. He has been a worldwide testimonial for Polaroid International and is now considered by critics to be the Instant Artist par excellence.
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Photo by Silvia Rasulo
Article edit by Massimo Basile
Editorial Manager