As part of the program "A Paris pendant Paris Photo" of Paris Photo 2021, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris presents The Marazzi Years 1975 – 1985, curated by Ilaria Campioli.
The exhibition displays for the first time in France a nucleus of almost completely unpublished photographs taken by Luigi Ghirri between the Seventies and Eighties for the ceramic company Marazzi, celebrating one of the most important masters of Italian photography at an international level.
In ten years Ghirri created an important corpus of works for Marazzi, almost completely free from the canons of the advertising image and extremely coherent with the artistic and visual research and the themes dear to the photographer in those years: the surface, the common object, the design, landscape, light as genius loci.
The exhibition presents a selection of twenty-four photographs from those taken as part of the collaboration between the artist and Marazzi, which have been kept in the company's archives for almost forty years.

In collaboration with Archivio Luigi Ghirri and Marazzi Group.