Guido Guidi’s studio is located on the ground floor of his countryside house on the outskirts of Cesena, Italy. This is just a few kilometers from the coast of the Adriatic Sea, a half-hour drive from the early Christian mosaics of Ravenna, ancient capital of the Western Roman Empire, and the dreamy atmospheres of Rimini, where Federico Fellini’s is set. To reach Guidi’s old building, you follow a dirt road between two long rows of persimmon trees. It is mid-December, and the ripe (2018), his work on the settlements along the Via Emilia, the road that, since Roman times, has connected Rimini to Piacenza. Yet the stillness is what you sense when leafing through his earlier book (2013), in which a sequence of images shows an empty room photographed every few minutes: the passage of time, seen in the movement of light and shadows on the walls.
