MASSIMO VITALI
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BIO
Massimo Vitali (b. 1944, Italian) began his career in photojournalism in the 1960’s, and began exploring cinematography for both television and cinema throughout the 1980’s. Vitali’s best-known work depicts Italian beach panoramas, reflecting his research into his fellow Italian citizens in the light of drastic political changes in Italy and his interest in capturing and analyzing how people think and act. He depicted a “sanitized, complacent view of Italian normalities,” at the same time revealing “the inner conditions and disturbances of normality: its cosmetic fakery, sexual innuendo, commodified leisure, deluded sense of affluence, and rigid conformism.” Vitali has held solo exhibitions in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and the Tate Modern (London). Vitali has work in permanent collections at The Guggenheim Museum (New York), Centre Pompidou-Musee National d'Art Moderne (France), Sir Elton John Photography Collection (Atlanta), Museo de Arte Reina Sofia (Spain), and Foundation National d' Art Contemporanie (France). Vitali’s work has been collected in four books: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, and Landscapes With Figures 2. Vitali currently lives and works in Lucca, Italy, and Berlin.