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"The eye sees more images that your means do not": it is beginning from this peremptory affirmation of Galimberti, quoting Doisneau from memory, that we can now trace and build a historic discourse about his artistic research and therefore, photography. Not the other way around. Refusing, since the earliest research, to turn in a precise direction, if not for the “choice” of non-traditional photographic means, primarily the Polaroid, one would characterize his work as a constant experimentation, initiated upon reaching full mastery of developing and printing in black and white and cibachrome printing in the early eighties. Techniques which “must” leave immediately, as is often said in the name of necessary “liberation from the oppression of the dark room”: here is the origin of his choice, his will to not define the horizons of research in view of a determined result, but of de-contextualizing constantly, liberating them from obligations and “traditional” rules of the medium used and reactivating their intrinsic expressive potential. The choice of unusual photographic mediums, conducted over the years, is conjugated to a rereading of the most experimental moments in the history of photography, in the particular way which that research aimed at engaging interaction and mingling among the various languages: it could then pass under review the studies of Muybridge and Bragaglia on movement, the rhythmic decompositions and cubo-futuristic dissonance, on which the artist works through the choice of a Widelux camera. On the other hand, a certain tension, almost common concern, brings  Galimberti  to the dada-surrealist realm, embraced perhaps in order to deny their own choice of language, of the photographic, in the name of contamination, or rather contagion, with literature and visual arts. From Man Ray to Duchamp, Galimberti recounts the salient moments of the “slap” of dada art, reactivating the attack, as immediate and violent, from Polaroid to reality.

The discovery of a "photographic consciousness" as he himself points out, is instead linked to the work of Stieglitz and the encounter with Camera Work, while the attention to the subject, the importance of the artist’s gaze as a first means to relate the real, leading to the reinterpretation of neo-avant-garde in the early sixties, they come back to the world, overcoming the informal impasse and existentialist abstraction: Nouveau Réalisme and Pop Art, designed the analysis of the object, the appropriation of reality and its symbolization of the icon and message.
His attention towards the more experimental photographic language of the twentieth century, as he has underlined the closer criticism, from Sciaccaluga to Scimé - the experiences of Luigi Veronesi, Nino Migliori, Ugo Mulas, Luigi Ghirri - translate into his work as an independent collection of forms, in the name of a more liberated search, more saturated with experiences and stimuli. It is this mode of approach, which results from artistic practice, that makes the language of Galimberti unique and immediately recognizable, it is from where he chooses the narration for images, from projects on the mobile and on Italian design, to research with a phone for Nokia, the campaign for Cartier, Jaeger LeCoultre, Illy Caffè, he succeeds in maximizing his aesthetic and communicative potentials. The same discourse applies to the known procedure of “photographic mosaic”, which consists of the fragmentation and breakdown of the subject - be it architecture, a human being, an object - through a series of Polaroid shots.
Today his work, exemplary in contrast and fertile contradiction between aesthetics and technology, comes to and establishes a new method of the ready-made photo, speaking on the subject with an awareness all the more solid and dense with meaning, much more ready to shatter and recompose anew, a diverse, expressive search.

Born in Como, Italy, in 1956, he is an internationally renowned “Instant artist” photographer and creator of the Dada Polaroid Movement itself: his photography has been developing though time in a dimension of research and discovery of rhythm and movement. Maurizio Galimberti moved his first steps with a Widelux camera for an on-the-road shooting project, afterwards he discovered Polaroid: it has now been 20 years since he first started working with instant cameras. Creativity and planning became the main feature of his best developed and known technique: Polaroid Mosaics, through which he found his way of expressing dynamism re-inventing an already exploited, but up to that moment less striking, technique. He likes to consider himself as a painter who can mix colours and create a whole lot of sensations through the use of his powerful and colorful instant films.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Polaroid Portraits and Architectures, Courtesy of Archivio NordEst, Vulcano Arte, Naples
Invito al viaggio, Organized by S.Giazzi, Bonelly Lab Gallery, Borgia del Casale - Siracusa
Venezia Polaroid, Organized by Denis Curti, Forma Gallery, Milan
Venezia Polaroid e Oggetti d’Affezione, PivArte Gallery, Bologna
Venezia, Organized by Denis Curti, Bugno Art Gallery, Venice
Dada Polaroid, Courtesy of Archivio NordEst, Contemporanea(mente), Parma
Flat… Flat… Flat…, Organized by Giuliana Scimè, Spazio Stefano CIvati, Milan
Polaroid Fotografie di M.G., Organized by V. Tazzetti, Spazio Ersel, Turin
Flowers, Organized by V. Galimberti, Spazio Torre del Borgo, S. Felice - Modena
New York Polaroid, Organized by Giuliana Scimè, VeraDocci Gallery, Forte dei Marmi
Portrait performance, Vintage Gallery, Spotorno

2007  
Lucca by M.G., Baluardo S. Regolo, Lucca
Paris Munich, Organized by R. Mutti and V. Galimberti, Fashion Library, Milan
Walk of Fame, Organized by V. Galimberti, Casa del Cinema, Rome
New York Polaroid, Bel Art Gallery, Milan
Maurizio Galimberti, Organized by Papachristidis, The Catto Gallery, London
New York MatericoMovimentosa by M. G., Concept Store Kerakoll Design, Milan

2006
Saturday Night Fever Photo and Contemporary, Turin
PianetaPlanet EmmeGi, Organized by Giuliana Scimè and G. Barker, Patrizia Papachristidis, London
Personale, Organized by M. Rossi, M. Rossi Gallery, Brescia

2005
20 Anni di Istantanee from M.R. Collection, Villa Tittoni, Desio
Nokia 6682 Telefonino TempoEmozione, Organized by A. Locatelli, EOS Factory, Milan
Madrid… Polaroid..., Blanca Soto Art Gallery, Madrid
Instantanee, from M.G. Collection, A. Bonzaghi Modern Art Gallery, Cento
M. G. Instant Artist, Organized by C. Rusconi, Capitolium Contemporanea, Brescia
MetaCittàFisica, Organized by R. Muti, Il Torchio Costantini Contemporary Art, Milan

2004
Dada watch face, Organized by R. Parravicini, Centro Svizzero, Milan
Maurizio Galimberti, Venezia Immagine, Padiglione Italia, Venice
Napoli Istantanea, Organized by G. Scimè, Castel dell'Ovo, Naples
Viaggio in Italia, Organized by E. Viganò, Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno - Milan,
Maurizio Galimberti interpreta il design, Creative Academy, Milan

2003  
My 30 shots, Factory Fine Art, Palazzina Ducale dei Giardini, Modena
Instax Planet, Organized by M. Sciaccaluga, Il Torchio Costantini Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Istantanee d'avanguardia, Maretti Arte, Principato di Monaco
Il giardino d'inverno, Organized by di D. Curti, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan

2002   
Swiss in Cheese, Organized by G. Scimè, Spazio Tad, Rome
Swiss in Cheese, Organized by G. Scimè, Paris

2001
Swiss in Cheese, Organized by G. Scimè, Galleria Grazia Neri, Milan
My Lisboa, Palazzo Municipale, Seriate - Bergamo

2000  
Work in Progress Portraits, Padiglione Polaroid Photokina, Colonia
Istante Rossonero, 100 anni  A.C. Milan, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan

1999
Provincia vò cercando, Organized by L. Piazza, Salone dei beni Culturali, Lingotto Fiere - Turin
La Musica dei Fiori, Organized by R. Mutti, Foto F45, Milan

1998
Tav treno....Milano, itinerant exhibition Kodak, Massa Marittima
Event: Festival di Sanremo ’98 Fragmented Songs&Images, Teatro Municipale, Casale Monferrato
Sapore di design, Fiera Internazionale di Genova, Genova
Work in Progress - mosaici Polaroid, Arte Fiera, Bologna
Live For the Moment, Italian Cultural Institute, London

1997
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, Petri Galerie, Rostock - Germany
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, Johannbau Paul Klee und Wassilly Kandinsky Meisterhaus, Dessau - Germany
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, San Paolo
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, Pelourihno, Salvador Bahia
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia,  International Engineergin Trade Fair, New Delhi
La Casa Italiana, for Domus Academy, Pitti Immagine, Fortezza da Basso - Firenze
Ritmo...Dinamismo...Futurismo...Polaroid..., Palazzo delle Scuole Palatine, Spazio Saporiti, Milan
Oltre la cornice - Trittico per tre, Galleria Materia Prima, Venice

1996  
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Im Perberschen Haus, Cera - Germany
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, Orient Shopping Centre, Shanghai
Bello quotidiano, Viaggio in Italia, Salone del mobile ’96, Milan
Polaroid...Mosaici di attori...in progress..!, Sala degli stucchi, Hotel Excelsior, Venice
Polaroid... Laboratorio...by Maurizio Galimberti, PalaeurRoma, Rome
Oltre la cornice, Trittico per tre, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia
Kodak frammenti, Rocca Paolina, Perugia

1995
Pro ART, Courtesy Polaroid Italia, spazio BELFE & BELFE, Milan

1994  
Specchio della luce, Organized by R. Mutti, Compagnia dei Fotografi, Milan
Omaggio al Maestro...Luigi Veronesi, Organized by R. Mutti, Cassero Senese - Grosseto

1993
Fotoritratti Polaroid, Centro Salvador Allende, La Spezia

1992
Ritratti in Polaroid, Teatro delle Erbe, Milan

1991
Polaroid in Motion, Organized by N. Lazzarini, Palazzo Fiat, Galleria II Diaframma, Milan


PUBLICATIONS

2008

Polaroid Venezia,  Denis Curti, published by Contrasto
Flat Iron by Maurizio Galimberti, Giuliana Scimè, Valentina Galimberti, published by NordEst
Maurizio Galimberti, Marco Sobrero and Valerio Tazzetti, published by ERSEL

2007

London by Maurizio Galimberti, Mario Trevisan and Valentina Galimberti, published by Cerruti Arte
New York Polaroid, Giuliana Scimè, published by Damiani Editore
New York Materico Movimentosa, Maria Teresa Cerretelli, published by Kerakoll
ParisEmozionalEmozione – quaderni di M.G. n. 4, by Valentina Galimberti
ParisMunich, Roberto Mutti and Valentina Galimberti, published by BlackBoard s.r.l.
Maurizio Galimberti – Metamorfosi, Maria Teresa Cerretelli, published by Bel Vedere Fotografia

2006

PianetaPlanetEmmeGi – quaderni di M.G. n. 2, published by  Patrizia Papachristidis
Mouvement Dada – quaderni di M.G. n. 1, published by Patrizia Papachristidis

2005

MetacittàFisica, Roberto Mutti, published by Contrasto Extra
Telefonino Tempo Emozione by Maurizio Galimberti, published by Nokia Italia

2004

Maurizio Galimberti interpreta il design, published by Comune di Meda

Istantaneo…Venezia Planet…Maurizio Galimberti, published by Bugno Art Gallery
Napoli Istantanea, published by Logos

2003

My Lisbon 1999 by Maurizio Galimberti – quaderni di M.G. n. 3”, Valentina Galimberti, published by Costantini Arte Contemporanea.
A Journey to Italy, published by Logos
Maurizio Galimberti, published by Maretti Editore
Instax Planet Maurizio Galimberti, published by Costantini Arte Contemporanea
Maurizio Galimberti Istantanea, published by Costantini Arte Contemporanea
Il Giardino d’Inverno by Maurizio Galimberti, published by Contrasto Extra
Istantaneo Luigi Veronesi by Maurizio Galimberti, published by Costantini Arte Contemporanea

2002

Swiss in cheese by Maurizio Galimberti, Giuliana Scimè, published by EIDOS

2000

Provincia Vò Cercando by Maurizio Galimberti, published by Mazzotta Fotografia

1994

Polaroid Pro Art, published by Polaroid Italia

Selected Group Publications and Professional Collaborations

2008 La visione dello spazio, R. Mutti, ICAR Torino
2006 up to now Maurizio started his collaboration with Cartier Magazine.
2003 Il Fotografo, mestiere d’arte,  Giuliana Scimè, published by Il saggiatore
2001 Sguardi, published by Gallerdia Gonda
2000 Il circuito di Imola, L’accademia pianistica di Imola, Vittorio Sgarbi, Luca Goldoni, Maio Poltronieri, Rizzoli Ed.
1995 Bello Quotidiano, published by Federlegno Arredo

Though his career Maurizio Galimberti and his works have been published on the main newspapers and most important art and fashion magazines such as AD, VanityFair, GQ, L’Uomo, In Viaggio, Celebrity (Germany), Arte, Como Lake Magazine and many more. His works have been sold at Sotheby’s, San Marco’s and other auction sellings.