Giuseppe Cavalli: Master of Light

One of the key figures of 20th century Italian photography, Giuseppe Cavalli, is surprisingly little known outside his native country.

Giuseppe Cavalli: Master of Light offers visitors the opportunity to experience the quietly intense vision of this pioneering artist in the  rooms of the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art (London, United Kingdom), is the latest in a series of exhibitions showcasing the work of some of the most important Italian photographers of the 20th century.

Reacting against the rhetorical and overblown imagery of the Fascist era, Cavalli’s work was imbued with the intimate poetry of daily life: subtle studies of reclining nudes and everyday objects such as bottles, glasses and candlesticks. Cavalli subscribed to the principle that ‘the subject has no importance at all’ in a work of art – and indeed such elements were essentially vehicles for his true subject: light.

This exhibition presents a selection of over seventy delicate and timeless images spanning the artist’s brief career, which ended prematurely with his death at the age of only fifty-seven.

Date: from April 18 to June 17.
Location: The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art. 39a Canonbury Square. London N1 2AN. United Kingdom
Opening hours: from Wednesday to Saturday form 11am to 6pm. Sundays from 12pm to 5pm.

Enjoy photographs by Cavalli in the following slideshow: