Giorgio Casali, Photographer, Domus 1951-1983

This week is the last chance to discover or re-discover the photographic work of Giorgio Casali at the Estorick Collection. What separates art and design? The debate is still convoluted and the curators of this exhibition, Angelo Maggi and Italo Zannier, took it a step further by highlighting the artistic value of Casali’s commercial photographs of architecture and design. A tour de force as one leaves the exhibition convinced that while he was working for over 3 decades at Domus, Gio Ponti’s famous magazine, he did create artworks in their own right.

Giorgio Casali, Photographer, Domus 1951-1983, Estorick Collection, London through September 8th, 2013

Giorgio Casali Photographer, Domus 1951-1983, Architecture, Design and Art in Italy. Exhibition view

Giorgio Casali, Furnished house in Milan designed by Angelo Mangiarotti and Bruno Morassutti, 1960

Domus no.370, September 1960. Detail of Carlo Scarpa’s set up of the exhibition commemorating Frank Lloyd Wright at the 12th Milan Triennial

Alabaster sculpture by Angelo Mangiarotti, 1980s