VisionQuesT 4rosso presents the new exhibition by Bruno Cattani, LIGHT.
There are worlds that no one can see, before they are recorded by a photograph. As John Berger wrote: “What makes photography a strange invention, with unpredictable effects, is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
LIGHT is the title of Cattani’s new project: capturing and freezing that precise moment when light draws a reality and, at the same time, transfigures it, making it full of wonder.
Taking inspiration from his own inventives, experiences, situations and personal realities, Cattani, through his gaze, imagination and ability to record diverse, futuristic, utopian and sometimes even dystopian scenarios, changes the perspectives of urban landscapes.
The origin of photography – made up of passages, traces and impressions through films and chemical processes – is deeply linked to light. Photographing, or writing with light, allows the author to investigate how he himself informs bodies, highlights surfaces, infusing everything around us with life.
What interests Cattani is the identity that changes as the hours pass, as day and night alternate in those places we think we know so well: “[…] as I walk the streets, I immortalize daily moments when light seems to change the skin of the city, confronting us with unknown and unreal scenarios.”
Bruno Cattani lives and works in Reggio Emilia, he began photographing in 1982 and has been a photojournalist since 1988. In 1996 he took part in a photographic research on the museums of Reggio Emilia, starting his study of the Alaces of art. Over the years he has received numerous assignments in the field of photographic research for museums such as the Musée Rodin, the Musée du Louvre, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the National Institute for Graphics, the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin and the Superintendency Archaeological site of Pompeii. In 2000 he was present at the D’après l’Antique exhibition at the Louvre Museum.
In 2005 he began his research Memory, in which he tried to revive the emotional past through narrative and evocative images.
He is among the artists invited to exhibit at the Italian Pavilion of the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with six photographs from the series Memorie selected by Italo Zannier. Playing Dreams , a foray into the fantasy world of childhood through toys, is among his last works and was exhibited at Arte Fiera di Bologna 2013 and at Mia in Milan in 2014.
2014 is the year he reprinted the book Memorie, published by Danilo Montanari Editore, a new chapter in his research that continues with many new images.
He has been present in many photography fairs throughout the world (Arte Fiera Bologna, Mia Milano, Turin, Verona, Paris, London, Brussels, Miami).
For two consecutive years he was among the finalists of the BNL award at Mia 2013-2014 and winning it in 2015. His photographs are part of the collections of the Archives Photographiques du Musée du Louvre, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, The New York Public Library, National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Bibliotéque Nationale de France in Paris, Musée Réattu d’Arles, Musée de la photographie of Charleroi, Musée Nicephore Niépce Ville de Chalon sur Saône, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie of Paris, Polaroid Collections, United States Museum of Photography, Museum of Thessaloniki (Greece).
Bruno Cattani, LIGHT
Until May 2, 2026
VisionQuesT 4rosso
Piazza Invrea 4r
16123 Genova Italy
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