The exhibition presents Massimo Listri's original portraits of interiors and perspectives of Italian palaces, museums, and other extraordinary locations in Italy. A total of 16 images from Palazzo Butera in Palermo (Sicily) to the Palazzo Reale in Venice (Veneto) that will captivate the audience with their eternal beauty. Massimo Listri's lens seeks for the musical harmony and divine perfection of architecture, chasing the music frozen in spaces. At the same time, he fills places with memories and emotions that make his "art of representing art" unique.
The photographs displayed in this exhibition embody the essential traits of Massimo Listri's artistic style: the central perspective that places architecture within a strict aesthetic equilibrium and enhances its harmony, through natural light that endows an almost metaphysical sacredness and through the theatricality of the inanimate scenes. Furthermore, the images suspend these extraordinary corners of Italy in time. Rooms are frozen between past and future and become the expressions of an elusive moment.
In Listri's shots, contemporaneity is found in the eternity of the archetypes that span the history of Western architecture. By means of a cultured stylization, reminiscent of some of Stanley Kubrick's cinematographic sets, Listri extracts places from history, goes beyond their material sumptuousness and consigns them to the future, making them familiar to everyone. The interiors are thus presented as deeply Italian images, clearly recognizable and rooted in the architectural imagery of our country.
Timeless, and therefore always contemporary, these images show Massimo Listri's art in representing art.