Guy Bourdin: Storyteller is part of the program of the side events taking place during the PhotoVogue Festival.
Opened in February 2023, the exhibition at Armani/Silos pays homage to the French photographer Guy Bourdin and his ability in joining together, in a shot, complex noir novels on the line of Hitchcock and Hopper. Curated by Giorgio Armani and the Guy Bourdin Estate, "Guy Bourdin: Storyteller" condenses 100 photographs, both iconic and less known, of this photographer, born painter, as we can notice in his study of colour and attention for the composition. The exhibition unravel in a chromatic journey which leads the visitor through different rooms of reds, greens, and pinks: a saturation of colours which has always been his distinctive feature. Even though aesthetically distant from Giorgio Armani, Guy Bourdin has been characterised by a creative freedom which can be seen in his ability in playing with the mannequins, deconstructing and creating new narratives, but also in the 21 black and white photographs in which his expressive power doesn t recede. It is also for Bourdin s love for cinema, that Giorgio Armani chose him for this exhibition: one section is dedicated to this great passion, alongside a selection of advertising campaign images portraying staged crime scenes and police chases. With this exhibition, prolonged until November 19th, Giorgio Armani stresses Guy Bourdin s outstanding "mark on the collective imagination”.
“Guy Bourdin: Storyteller”
Curated by Giorgio Armani in collaboration with the Guy Bourdin Estate.
February 24 - November 19, 2023
Wednesday to Sunday | 11.00 - 19.00
Armani/Silos
via Bergognone, 40
20144, Milano
Here the complete list of the other side events taking place in the same days of the Festival.
- Cfp Bauer. “Is this Water”. Curated by the professors and the students of the school.
- Condominio. “Twin Spark”. Curated by Giulia Restifo and Alessandro Calabrese . Artists: Anca Adina Bettega, Matteo Capriotti, Caterina Dondi, and Francesca Rossi.
- Istituto Italiano di Fotografia. “Ex Novo. Digestioni a catena”. Artists: Giuseppe Laera and Luigi Notarnicola.
- Leica Galerie. “James’ House” and “Hunting Heart”. Artists: Jacob and Sara Aue Sobol. Curated by Maurizio Beucci and Claudio Composti.
- Micamera. “Swim Till I Sank”. Artist: Gabriele Stabile.
- Perimetro. “MATCH!”. An experimental workshop curated by Perimetro Learn.
- Podbielski Contemporary. “Mirabilia”. Artist: Silvia Camporesi.
- 29 Arts in Progress. “Michel Haddi: Beyond Fashion”.
- Palazzo Reale. “JIMMY NELSON. Humanity”. Curated by Nicolas Ballario and Federica Crivellaro.
- Still Fotografia. "Giorgio Galimberti: alchimia dell’ombra". Curated by Alessandro Curti.
- Monica De Cardenas Gallery. “Stephan Balkenhol” .
PhotoVogue Festival is a project directed by Alessia Glaviano (Head of Global PhotoVogue) and co-curated by Francesca Marani (Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia), Chiara Bardelli Nonino (Editor, Writer and Curator), Daniel Rodríguez Gordillo (Content Operations Strategy Manager, Condé Nast) and Caterina De Biasio (Visual Editor, PhotoVogue)
