Roma. Never Walk On Crowed Streets - Giovanna Silva

Giovanna Silva arrived in Rome in January of 2020 and immediately set off walking. Following the suggestions of her personal guides – artists, writers, intellectuals, Romans of all shapes and idioms – she began to get to know the city. She returned to certain places over and over again, overtaken by meticulous and neurotic attention, moved by an unexpected passion for light. Tucked between her photographs is a text by Alberto Savinio about the magic of walking and discovering a foreign place.

"Where I live now. Poussin used to come to sketch notes for his heroic landscapes populated by gods, sibyls, shepherds. Landscape painters at the time used to construct their landscapes in the studio, slowly, patiently. Later they started to paint landscapes quickly and sur le motif, from life.I don't think landscape painting was any better for it. To work from memory is to work by oneself."

Nero Editions
English
Softcover, 640 pages
120 mm x 160 mm