FRANCO VIMERCATI
Untitled, 1999

Franco Vimercati initially trained as a painter at the Brera Academy in Milan but it was only in 1972, after meeting Ugo Mulas, that he directed his artistic practice towards photography. His subjects are mainly everyday household objects, sometimes captured in sequence, varying light, exposure and focus. This series also includes the 1996 photograph exhibited in the show Ritratti d’Interno at Studio la Città, curated by Peter Weiermeir, and later, in 2001, in the group exhibition Black & White is Beautiful curated by Luigi Meneghelli.
Vimercati’s works demand a contemplative attention. His poetics pick from American minimalism while simultaneously finding their own identity, also thanks to a partuclar attention to photographic technique in the most rigourous sense of photo, light, print and darkroom. All these elements guided his constant experimentation, giving his work—and the ‘simple objects’ portrayed—an unmistakable poetic quality.

Untitled,1999

Black and white photography

cm 30 x 24,5

cm 48 x 43 x 3 (framed)