Self Exposed

Through a selection of 70 works spanning over fifty years of his career, the exhibition pays tribute to one of the most influential masters of contemporary photography: the American Ralph Gibson (Los Angeles, 1939).

The exhibition highlights the aesthetic evolution of a visual language characterized by stark contrasts, bold framing, and a constant tension between abstraction and reality. From his beginnings in San Francisco and New York in the 1960s, through the season of the great “black trilogy” of photography books such as The Somnambulist (1970), Déjà-Vu (1973), and Days at Sea (1974), to his most recent works created in Turin and Piedmont (2005) and Vertical Horizon (2016), Gibson has transformed minimalist detail into a sensual and mysterious narrative, where shadows take on a poetic force.

His fragments of bodies, objects, and architecture are charged with a symbolic intensity that invites the viewer to complete the story by playing with their imagination.