Luigi Ghirri's Kodachrome Exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York

Luigi Ghirri's photography exhibition 'Kodachrome' is on view at Matthew Marks Gallery, located at 526 W 22 Street in New York, until April 20. The show features the Italian artist's small-scale, profound photographs that have recently captivated art fair audiences. Ghirri's work, often created with Polaroid film, presents electric moments that draw comparisons to American photographers Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, while maintaining a distinct Mediterranean sensibility. His images explore themes of perception, with tourists observing mural-sized landscape reproductions rather than actual vistas, and architecture appearing disrupted as pedestrians pass by unconcerned. The exhibition highlights Ghirri's conceptual approach to photography, which examines the act of looking itself. This presentation comes approximately two decades after the artist's death, marking a significant revival of interest in his visually striking and intellectually rigorous work. The content was originally published in the March 2013 issue of ArtReview.