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Facciate / Facades

Facciate / Facades is the title of a series of photographs, on display at Large Glass in London, taken by Guidi in the early 1970s of buildings, houses and small precarious constructions.

Guido Guidi , Fosso Ghiaia (detail), 1971. ©Guido Guidi, Courtesy of Large Glass, London

“Everything has a face. Everything has eyes. Everything takes a shape. Everything acts as a frame. Everything is a window. Everything shows you the world. Everything shows you itself. Everything reveals something” said Ali Smith.

Guido Guidi, Cesena, 1972. ©Guido Guidi, Courtesy of Large Glass, London — **Top:** Guido Guidi, Fosso Ghiaia (detail), 1971. © Guido Guidi, Courtesy of Large Glass, London **Above:** Guido Guidi, Cesena, 1972. © Guido Guidi, Courtesy of Large Glass, London

Guido Guidi has said that the word Facciata (or Facade) refers to both the front of a building and the “face” of a sheet of paper, it is also the title of a series of photographs, on display here, taken by him in the early 1970s of buildings, houses, small precarious constructions on the Romagna coast, close to where he lives. “I am interested in a more difficult beauty, one that slips away: the moment when the gaze is transformed.”