I think of my job as a circular path where change is each time not just overtaking the past, but it is the possibility to reinterpret the future. And discontinuity is not an interruption, but a suspension because in this circularity the present can unite itself to all the ages.
‘An extended time’ where my work through photography explores the history of art.
In this sense, I think I’ve accomplished my dreams and my visions with ease and mental freedom, without certainties and always through different cultures and knowledge.
Mario Cresci

Mario Cresci was born in Chiavari, in the province of Genoa, in 1942. Since the late sixties, he developed an activity that ranges from design to graphics, to photography, and to installation.
His work has always aimed at a continuous investigation on the nature of visual language using the medium of photography as a pretext opposed to the concept of the truth of reality.
In 1969 he made the first photographic installation in Europe at the gallery Il Diaframma of Milan. Since the nineties until today, after having directed from 1991 to 2000 the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts of Bergamo and having organized many cultural events dedicated to young artists, he resumed its own work, in which the aesthetics of photography rejects the logic of the show and the search for consensus in order to give back a way of feeling and seeing the world as an experience to share.
In 2004 his first retrospective exhibition, Le case della Fotografia, 1966-2003, cured by Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, was held at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin.
He exhibited his works in some editions of the Venice Biennale, including Muri di carta, fotografia e paesaggio dopo le avanguardie, curated in 1993 by Achille Bonito Oliva. During his long artistic experience also participated in important group exhibitions in prestigious exhibition halls in Italy and abroad. Since 1974, some of his works are in the MOMA collection of New York.
He made numerous graphic publications and photography essays. He taught at the University of Parma, at the Orientale of Naples and at the Polytechnic of Design of Milan. He currently teaches at the Academy of Brera and the ISIA in Urbino.

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Mario Cresci
Geometria naturalis 1975-2001
Archival Pigment Print
9 stampe, cm 60 x 40
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 PdA

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Mario Cresci
Dalla serie: Geometria non euclidea, deformazione del quadrato
Venezia 1964 - new print Bergamo 2007
Archival Pigment Print
6 prints, cm 40 x 30
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Mario Cresci
Dalla serie: Piegati da Retablo #1 - 2013
Archival Pigment Print
cm 89 x 64
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Dalla serie: Piegati da Retablo #2 - 2013
Archival Pigment Print
cm 89 x 64
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Mario Cresci
Dalla serie: Piegati da Retablo #3 - 2013
Archival Pigment Print
cm 89 x 64
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