MICHELE BUDA
da uno a sette
from 6 to 28 April 2024
The Exhibition
The photography that Michele Buda uses for this project includes seven sequences in progression. As in a crescendo of images he adopts a sort of visual montage, with the rigorous choice of black and white to bring attention to the things of the world and to details belonging to the sensitive vision of the gaze. Michele Buda's work knows how to involve, beyond the lucid and cold shot. His images do not live only on technique, but bring with them objective contemporary melancholy. As Agamben claims, every author is at the same time in his time but should also place himself alongside it, to observe reality in a clear and objective manner, representations that also serve to help us understand life better. On display there are photographs by the one who knows well the importance of light and shadows in architecture and in the history of painting.
The Artist
Michele Buda was born in 1967 in Ravenna, lives and works in Cesena.
He is a photography teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna.
He studied Arts, Music and Entertainment at the University of Bologna.
He began to deal with photography at the beginning of the nineties, participating in various photographic campaigns. In 2005 he exhibited at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur and the year after at the SK Stiftung Kultur in Koln. Among his exhibitions are the solo exhibitions at the Galleria Spazio Senzatitolo, Fotografie (2009) and One Day in Berlin (2013); at Metronom Gallery, 9909 (2010) and Tricks and Falls (2012); at the Rimini Image Gallery, Tricks and Falls (2013).
In 2016 he exhibited in the 4x4 architecture exhibition, at Areafotografia in Monselice. In 2017 the personal academy exhibition, taken from the homonym book, was hosted in the spaces of the Galleria del Ridotto in Cesena. In 2018 the personal exhibition Archivio Quasimodo per Cristallino was set up in the Corte Zavattini 31 gallery in Cesena. In 2021, with the project Sul confine he won the 2020 Photography Strategy call promoted by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture. In the same year the exhibition was held in the spaces of the Ex Testi hospital in Cotignola and the book Sul confine published by Quodlibet was printed.
His photographs are part of the collections of Linea di Confine for contemporary photography in Reggio Emilia, of the IBC of the Emilia-Romagna Region, of the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, of the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland and of the Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie in Düsseldorf .
