Luca Missoni (born 1956), artistic director of the Missoni Archive, has been infatuated with the moon since childhood, observing it through a telescope and collecting maps and books about the moon, and, over the past 20 years, incorporating it into his artistic research as a photographer.
The exhibition featured Missoni's grids of individually framed prints in a manner reminiscent of Bernd and Hilla Becher, as well as larger single prints and a selection of new works in which several colored moon images have been composed into one collage. A selection of new drawings of the moon on paper was also presented for the first time.
The result is Missoni's personal interpretation of our closest heavenly body, and a journey through his lifelong appreciation of Earth's satellite.
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