米兰：世博城市的近百个瞬间
摄影：罗贝尔托·葛菲

借2015米兰世博会（2015年5月1日至10月31日）这一契机，意大利大使馆文化处携手蓝顶美术馆，共同推出意大利艺术家罗贝尔托·葛菲的"米兰：世博城市的近百个瞬间"摄影展：一次穿行米兰及其周边地区的旅程，一个捕捉大都市千面万相的凝视。

任何一个活跃的大都市和其周边地区都像多种迷宫组成的蛛网，需要顺藤摸瓜、需要寻找有助理解和阐述的关键词汇，才能予以理顺并叙述它们的故事。

米兰给予我的启发促使我创作了四组图片：过眼烟云的米兰、勤劳的米兰、隐秘的米兰、古老的米兰。

采用裱在铝板上的冷色工业照相纸，第一组图片旨在叙述正在米兰举办的世界博览会的当代精神。其他三组图片讲述不同时期的历史沉淀，它们的年代或近或远，但注定将得到传承，这些作品被打印在经过感光处理的水彩纸上，以强调其诗情画意的意境，一些作品还用铅笔或水彩进行了处理。

勤劳的米兰着眼于工厂及河道、古建和一些建筑结构的现代改造，它们决定了米兰的命运：一个制造和经济中心，意大利乃至欧洲的经济龙头。

随后我们将进入一些安静隐秘的角落，它们反映出米兰人的性格，务实、不事张扬、不好炫富。

最深层的调查涉及古老的起源，以饱含诗意的视觉形象给予呈现。这一古老的历史构成了城市一切事物的源头和得以生长的土壤。（罗贝尔托·葛菲）

EXPLORING MILAN： 100 shoots from the Expo city and its surroundings
By Roberto Goffi

On the occasion of Milan Expo 2015， the Italian Institute of Culture presents， in collaboration with the Today Art Museum， "EXPLORING MILAN"， a journey through Milan and its surroundings， a thorough glance to highlight the thousands shades of a metropolis.

A web of stratified mazes makes up any big city and its hinterland. To unravel its intricacies and narrate their stories， we need tracks to follow and keys for interpretation. The city of Milan gave me some leads to four different groups of images： Milan the Ephemeral； Milan the Laborious； Milan the Secretive； Milan ancient roots.

The contemporary spirit of the Expo， programmatically ephemeral， is portrayed through cold images printed on industrial paper and put on aluminium plates.

The other sections show layers of the past， sometimes recent but always long-lasting. These works are printed on sensitized watercolour paper， to accentuate the poetic aspect in them. Some also contain traces of pencil drawings and hand-colouring.

Milan the Laborious looks at the factories and the waterways， to the old buildings and to the modern re-inventions of the structures that wrote the destiny of Milan as a hub of production and the economic capital of Europe.

We then penetrate into an array of discreet and secluded places， reflecting the personality of the denizens of Milan， their concreteness， their reluctance towards ostentation， and their tendency to hide shy treasures.

The deepest investigation regards the ancient origins， read as shreds of visual poetry， the growing soil and origin of everything. (Roberto Goffi)

罗贝尔托·葛菲于1948年出生于都灵。

他是一位建筑师，并于1977年成为专业摄影家，曾接受委托，负责重要的公共及私人机构、出版社及都灵画廊主打的推广活动的摄影创作。
摄影之外，他还投入研究，主要关注古老摄影技术的发掘以及新技术和材料的使用，但他并不是为媒介而媒介，而是把媒介作为深入"摄影对象之外"的工具。诗句构成了葛菲作品的一个重要部分，他用它们来激发回声、探究空穴，他用它们来叙述故事，为视像诗意增添更深厚的层次。 

Roberto Goffi（Turin， 1948）is an architect and has been a professional photographer since 1977， involved in the realization of many successful promotional campaigns for private and public institutions， publishing houses and art galleries in Turin.
Besides， his long-lasting research in the field of photography has led to the rediscovery of ancient techniques together with the invention of new modes and the employment of new materials， all with the scope of reaching what is "behind the object itself". He believes in the importance of words to give form to echoes in the abyss， as an aid to the narration and to reach an higher level of visual poetry.