Guido Guidi and CCA Director Mirko Zardini discuss the Italian photographer’s longstanding relationship to the work of Carlo Scarpa, from his CCA commission for the exhibition Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History (1999), to his in-depth study of the Tomba Brion.

The conversation was filmed on 10 September 2009 in the CCA’s Octagonal Gallery the day before the opening of the exhibition Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007. Guidi, who studied with Scarpa at the Venice University Institute of Architecture (IAUV) in the 1960s, considers the Tomba Brion as an autobiography of Scarpa. His fifty colour prints, drawn from a larger series, capture modulations of light and material details of Scarpa’s final work over a period of more than 10 years. Guidi discusses some of the sources of inspiration for his photographic series, such as artist Paul Klee’s notion of the “arrow of time” and Giorgione’s painting La Vecchia. He describes his approach as capturing Scarpa’s architecture as a built work but also as an instrument through which to observe the passage of time.

Conversation in Italian.