Leon Battista Alberti Square

Photo by Fabrizio Vatieri There is the gaze of the tourists, superficial and ephemeral, and also a more silent moment, at night, when architecture seems to show its most true and intimate nature. The city and its architecture are admired by tourists in a peculiar way: the gaze of a tourists moves on the surface, it is an overbearing gaze, with a strong imaginative tendency. The places visited by tourists are not however unmoved by this bizarre human presence. A human figure is here superimposed intentionally on the architecture and on the places. The presence of tourists in fact causes a change in the places, a sort of contamination. The tourists is here depicted immersed in this state of suspension in which one is intent on being a “tourist”. Grand What? is a reflection on the complex issue of the true nature of a place, in which the camera, the tourist and the art works contribute in equal measure to shaping the essence of the place.