Walter Niedermayr's Transformations at CAMERA Torino

CAMERA in Torino presents 'Transformations', a survey of Walter Niedermayr's last twenty years of photographic work, curated by Walter Guadagnini. The exhibition features a clean installation where some works are mounted on wallpaper reproducing mountain imagery, creating a photo-on-photo effect, while others use simple cardboard. Niedermayr explores social, phenomenal, and visual transformations of landscape. A corridor section showcases a seven-year anthropological study of Val di Fiemme, including human and anthropomorphic presences like a snow-making machine treated as a character. Two unpublished diptychs document the construction site of Palazzo Turinetti in Piazza San Carlo, Torino, which will become the fourth venue of Intesa Sanpaolo's Gallerie d'Italia. The accompanying catalog is published by Silvana Editoriale. Niedermayr's work, rooted in his native Alpine environment, avoids nostalgia and moralism, focusing on abstraction and environmental investigation through photography as a tool to capture constant change.