about the artist :
Luigi Visconti

Luigi Visconti is keen on urban landscapes. He is allured in cities with architectural asperity and story to tell about their historical background. Visconti captures faces of cities with a great accuracy, as an architect will do to build his model. He uses both silver and digital equipment, his pictures are often huge dimensions to allow the limitless viewer's wanderer look.

Luigi Visconti took his first great sizes in Abu Dhabi. He is inspired by the architectural diversity of towers still in work. His "Vertigo Cities" 2010 Series, Luigi Visconti stands on New York, Dubai and Shanghai rooftops to draw the contour of these innovative cities which reach the sky. Graphic and colorful urban slides give us such a powerful contagious energy. In La Havana, "Vertigo Cities" 2011 Series his lens is closer and presents an idyllic and intimate view, at the heart of the city centre where he snaps ordinary life scenes in an amazing place with old American cars and stripped plaster frontages. Further, it seems like we are part of the photography like a spark life at the street corners or at the balcony. The city is standing full of light even damaged but beautiful and proud of its palpable colonial gleams.

Paris under the snow is a poetic and melancholic series, which reveals the intrinsic beauty of Paris, with the foolish hope to make believe in a solitary walk in another century. Snowy Paris, it is Paris liberated from its population, its constant noise, erasing the stigmas of the chaotic twenty-first century, to only let arise the architecture in its purest, its most prominent form. It is the silence and the splendor of the past captured here, by the vacuum of its major arteries and intersections, usually so attended. Paris would seem asleep if it was not betrayed by a few subtle details, almost anachronistic, contrasting with this calm apparent. The city, caught between the stark white of the snow and the grey of the morose sky, appears more gentle, more charming, of a beauty which is timeless. The Place Vendôme, the Pont Neuf, the Place de la Concorde, and the rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs are revisited by a lover of Paris, who reveals the city in a garment of dim light.

This series of photos of 2013 bears the imprint of Luigi Visconti as there are angles of view that are dear to him in his various series of urban landscapes : intersections, vanishing lines, perspectives, wide-angle. But Paris under the snow is especially an echo of the White Silence (2015), a series of photographs of the marble quarries of Carrara. We find in both of these series the highlighting of raw materials, ennobled and muted by the silence, all white. The marble in the rough state in Carrara. The stone, bronze, and wood in Paris.

Luigi Visconti is thus moving away from his earlier series that showed the cities in full motion, in excess of colour, life and noise. Paris under the snow and White Silence are perhaps a form of appeasement of the artist, more attracted now by the nature and its silence.

In his latest series, Visconti returns to his Italian roots as he captures the beaches of his native country by sheding a light on mass tourism and the beauty of the Mediterranean landscapes. His photos immerse us in a summer atmosphere, full of nostalgia and charm.

Tour Eiffel Blanche / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 55 x 44 in (140 x 112 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3990
Galliano y Zanha / Luigi Visconti
Lambda print, diasec finishing
Image : 39 x 59 in (100 x 150 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
5,540 US$
3499
Paseo del Prado  / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing. Artist Proof number 1/2
Image : 36 x 52 in (90 x 132 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 1 copy
Price on request
2758
Spiaggia II, Lido Adriano / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 39 x 59 in (100 x 150 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3644
Piscina I, Mirabeach / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 39 x 59 in (100 x 150 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3631
Piscina II, Mirabeach / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 39 x 59 in (100 x 150 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3609
Scogliera, Santa Cesarea Terme / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 39 x 51 in (100 x 130 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3890
Circolo Nauutico, Santa Cesarea / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 39 x 51 in (100 x 130 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3715
Tuffo, Santa Cesarea Terme / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing
Image : 39 x 51 in (100 x 130 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3900
Soho / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 43 x 59 in (110 x 150 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
5,540 US$
3169
Amusement Park (grand format) / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 32 x 71 in (80 x 180 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
5,540 US$
3794
Riva I, Lac de Garde / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 39 x 55 in (100 x 140 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3839
China y Zanja / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 32 x 55 in (90 x 140 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
4,410 US$
3210
Paris Pont Neuf / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing
Image : 39 x 65 in (100 x 165 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
5,400 US$
4385
Paris Concorde / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing
Image : 39 x 65 in (100 x 165 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
3285
Grand Mosque / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 35 x 55 in (90 x 160 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
4,120 US$
2885
Avenida de Italia / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 39 x 59 in (100 x 150 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
5,540 US$
3174
Prado Rain / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, mounted with a patented Diasec
Image : 35 x 59 in (85 x 150 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
5,540 US$
3289
Dubai Cable / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 25 x 45 in (64 x 114 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 10 copies
2,700 US$
3035
Paris Vendôme / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 43 x 60 in (110 x 153 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
4382
Paris Croix / Luigi Visconti
Lambda C-type print, Diasec finishing.
Image : 43 x 55 in (110 x 140 cm)
Edition of 15 copies
4,690 US$
4281
Hôtel Deauville / Luigi Visconti
Print on metallic paper, Diasec
Image : 47 x 59 in (120 x 150 cm)
Edition of 2 EA + 8 copies
5,260 US$
4055