Now that the intense opening days of the Biennale — with their inaugurations, talks, screenings, and the collectors’ fair — have passed, we can begin to share, more calmly, a series of postcard-like messages. One each day, for the next three weeks.

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BIENNALE DI SENIGALLIA

Among the artists featured in this year’s IV Biennale of Senigallia, we begin with local photographer Giorgio Cutini.

His works are exhibited on the first floor of the Palazzetto Baviera, as part of the section “Cinque Fotografi di Oggi”, part of the main exhibition “I Misteri della Fotografia”.

Here are a few photos from the installation — with students and Erasmus participants from the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes carefully placing the wall labels.

In this series, Giorgio Cutini explores the theme of rest as an inner space, where the photograph no longer represents the visible, but what remains when the visible withdraws.

Requie(m) is a meditation on blackness. Photography thus returns to being a ritual, a suspension.

For those who enjoyed the three prints by Giorgio Cutini on view at the Biennale, a much larger selection — 45 works in total — can be seen nearby in the town of Macerata, at Laboratorio 41.

We visited the exhibition yesterday evening with several artists from the Biennale. It was a wonderful gathering that ended by the sea, with the typical cuisine of the Marche region — as always, simple and generous.

On that occasion, we also discovered the extraordinary Teatro Sferisterio, a former jeu de paume and bullfighting arena that has become one of the most charming opera houses in Italy — and a well-kept secret among European performers.

“Requie(m) is both a final landing and a new beginning in Giorgio Cutini’s artistic journey — a work composed of 45 photographs, currently exhibited at Laboratorio 41 Art Gallery. It marks the closing chapter of his tetralogy Canto delle stagioni, but more importantly, it opens a space for visual meditation.

At its core lies a fundamental gesture: subtraction. Cutini does not seek to show, but to allow things to emerge. As Jung wrote, “black is the color of beginnings.” And it is within the deepest black that the artist places his deactivated objects — stripped of function, emptied of narrative — returning them to us as minimal, silent signs of an absence that still resonates.

Born from a personal memory — the fleeting echo of a lost father — Requie(m) becomes an intimate journey that touches on the universal. These photographs are not meant to be seen, but listened to. In the visual silence they evoke, the image becomes a threshold; black becomes a generative womb, a space of waiting, of searching, rather than a place of visual consumption.

In a world saturated with noise and images, Cutini takes a countercurrent path: he creates photographs that do not intrude, but ask for respect — that offer no answers, but open spaces.” — Barbara Caterbetti

Giorgio Cutini has published a beautiful book of this work, in only 250 copies.

Giorgio Cutini has published a beautiful book of this work, which can be requested directly from the artist.