Claude Nori

Dans les brumes de la plaine du Pô, à la recherche de Monica Vitti.

Claude Nori

Born in 1949 in Toulouse (France)

"Mario Giacomelli and Luigi Ghirri were viscerally attached to their land, to this Italian province that from Bologna extends towards the plain of the Po river and its Antonionian sound, opening to the Emilienne way until the Adriatic Coast, where Fellini gave life to Vitelloni, the eternal adolescents who would never be able to leave their city of Rimini.Read more

Neither the one nor the other really appreciated long voyages and constructed their work around their homes to observe and construct a new world. They would start with some simple elements that would take their attention, as did the painter Giorgio Morandi, who also came from Bologna.

They admired the compositions of the master, which would begin from a funnel, a cube, and the molds of bottles resting on a simple wooden table...

Luigi was my Italian friend, my companion on the road, my editorial accomplice, we would sing together, my daughter Giulia was conceived in his home in Roncocesi.

We loved each other so much." Claude Nori