Nino Migliori

Nino Migliori has been developing some of the most articulated and interesting research in European image culture since 1948. From the very beginning he produced neorealist sequence-narration photographs as well as original and new experimentations in materials.

Thus, on one side, in few years Migliori realized a corpus linked to the outstanding stylistic manner of that period, Neorealism: a vision of reality based on the supremacy of “ popular “ with its derivations of regionalism and humanitarianism.

On the other side his off- camera works have no comparison within the boundaries of world photography. We can understand them if they are compared with the most advanced side of European Informale, but they were often conceived earlier than the most famous paintings. His research will continue in the following years including other materials and techniques: polaroid, bleachings.

At the end of the Sixties Migliori’s work takes on conceptual aspects, a trend which tends to prevail in the following years.

Experimenter, sensitive explorer and alternative reader, his visual production has always been characterised by a great visionary ability that he infused in an original and brand new work. New scenarios and seductions take part in his work, where the project becomes compositions, explored territory and a point of critical reflection. A reflection on the use of photography, on its evidence through the discovery of renewed gestures and contaminations.

He is the aptest author to represent the exceptional adventure of photography that starts as a documentary means and later on assumes values and contents that relate to art, experimentation and interplay.

Nowadays we consider Migliori a true architect of vision. Each of his productions is the result of a precise project on the power of vision, a subject that has characterised all his work.

His works are present in important private and public collections, among them Mambo – Bologna; Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Torino; CSAC - Parma; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Pecci - Prato; Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Roma; Calcografia Nazionale - Roma; MNAC Barcellona; Museum of Modern Art - New York; Museum of Fine Arts - Houston; Bibliothèque National - Parigi; Museum of Fine Arts  - Boston; Musée Reattu - Arles; SFMOMA – San Francisco and others.