When I saw these striking photographs I saw the walls of Rome as if I had been there two thousand years ago, but at the same time I saw Rome with today's graffiti.  And Carlo's artistry is in having captured the combination of a very ancient past and a very modern present.  He has, in fact, stripped Rome bare.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

 

In the halls of the 16th-century Palazzo delle Albere in Trento, the Mart presents Memorie di Adriano ("Memoirs of Hadrian") by Milanese photographer Carlo Gavazzeni Ricordi. The exhibition presents a selection of around 30 large-format prints dedicated to the Eternal City: Rome. Just as the Italian capital holds three thousand years of layered history, in Gavazzeni Ricordi’s works signs and symbols from the past are superimposed on contemporary, everyday, close-up vistas. Among shadows that appear to span the fabric of time, ancient beauty and traces of the present are intertwined in the artist's deeply evocative images, creating illusions that he calls Visioni fuggitive.

Gavazzeni's point of view is neither celebratory nor elegiac; rather, it conveys the idea of something in transit, of a continuous transformation encompassing several stages. His landscapes, obtained with the technique of double exposure, do not depict an objective space, but seem to want to go back in time, interweaving distant eras and memories, straddling the centuries. Space and time coexist in the photographs and in the eyes of the visitors, who find familiar views, familiar shapes, images etched in their soul, absolute and recognisable icons. 

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