Giovanni Zaffagnini's Typological Photography at Cesena's Bluklein Gallery

Giovanni Zaffagnini (b. 1945) presents his research on language and classification at Bluklein Gallery in Cesena. The exhibition features series such as "Reperti di un passato recente," "Mucche," and "Ville dei sogni," accompanied by a catalog published by Pequod. Zaffagnini's work shows the influence of German photography, from August Sander to Bernd and Hilla Becher to Thomas Ruff, to whom a typology of "faceless little men" is dedicated. The images can also be read as an exorcism of illness, as seen in the empty blister packs that testify to the artist's daily medication consumption. This linguistic work fits perfectly into his career, which moved from ethnographic research in the early period—when in 1986 he was among the curators of the traveling exhibition and volume "Traversate del deserto," a project by Gianni Celati—to a photography focused on languages and experimentation.