题 目：Italia in Miniatura / 意大利缩影

作 者：Luigi Ghirri & Ivo Rambaldi

出 版：Mack ，2024

装 帧：精装，160页

尺 寸：25.3*31.5 cm

在20世纪70年代末至80年代中期，路易吉·吉里（Luigi Ghirri）在其家乡意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅大区里米尼的一个主题公园内，创作了一系列沉思意大利风光的摄影作品。这个备受欢迎的旅游目的地——意大利缩影（Italia in Miniatura）展现了意大利主要自然和建筑地标的缩尺模型，它们被奇妙地聚集在一起。吉里以他对视觉巧合与讽刺、幻觉与现实、模糊与人为制造的独特敏感性，拍摄了这个虚构的世界。这些图像反映了摄影本身缩小和再现的过程，是吉里最独特、最有趣且概念上最引人入胜的作品之一。

这本新书呈现了吉里“按比例（In Scala）”系列的全部作品，并扩充了众多此前未公开的图像，同时将这些作品与公园创始人及设计师伊沃·兰博尔迪（Ivo Rambaldi）的作品进行了对话。兰博尔迪在遍布意大利的详尽研究旅行中制作的地图、草图、拼贴画和参考图像，提供了一种对微型化可能性和悖论的类似探索。他坦率的实用性理念与吉里对业余爱好者视角和工具的接纳不谋而合。从这些细致的再现与虚构作品之间的对话中，我们发现了一种可能性，用吉里的话说，“也许正是在这个完全虚构的空间里，隐藏着真相”。

Between the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Luigi Ghirri made a series of photographs meditating on the landscape of his native Italy, all within the grounds of a single theme park in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. The popular tourist destination Italia in Miniatura presents scale models of Italy’s major natural and architectural landmarks, brought together in surreal proximity. Ghirri photographed this fabricated world with a characteristic sensitivity for visual coincidence and irony, illusion and reality, ambiguity and artifice. Reflecting on photography’s own processes of shrinking and representing, these images are among Ghirri’s most distinctive, playful, and conceptually compelling.

This new book presents the entirety of Ghirri’s In Scala series, expanded with numerous previously unseen images, and places them in conversation with work by the park’s founder and designer, Ivo Rambaldi. Rambaldi’s maps, sketches, collages, and reference images, made on exhaustive research trips across Italy, offer an analogous exploration of the possibilities and paradoxes of miniaturisation. Their frank functionality resonates with Ghirri’s embrace of the perspective and tools of the ama-teur. From the dialogue between these meticulous works of representation and fabrication we discover the possibility that, in Ghirri’s words, ‘Perhaps it’s in this very space, one of total fiction, that truth is concealed’.