Until 14 January at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Bologna you can visit the first anthological exhibition ever held by an Italian museum on the English photographer John Hilliard (Lancaster 1945). Curated in collaboration with the artist, the review retraces Hilliard’s work from the Conceptual and Minimalist period of the late 1960s, to the narrative successes of the present day. Eighty works of an often ambiguous content mark the various phases in his artistic production: from the introspective photographs of the 1970s to the “opposition” works of the 1980s, which combine or superimpose two or three photographs or parts of them and the works of the early 1990s, which combine two or three photographic planes one behind the other, and the elimination of the center of the photographs in the works of the second half of the 1990s. Behind an inviting external appearance, Hilliard’s work proposes a rich combination of symbols and references taken from art, literature, the cinema, television and everyday life, that often allude to the duality of good - evil, positive - negative, love - violence.

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