Fondazione MAST will be welcoming the British photographer Miles Aldridge who will provide an overview of his 30-year career, touching on all the salient elements: his working method, featuring slow and meticulous preparation; the influence of cinema, especially Fellini’s neo-realism and David Lynch's alienating atmospheres; the female figures who have inspired him the most, in particular his mother and the former director of Vogue Italia Franca Sozzani; artistic collaborations, from Harland Miller to Maurizio Cattelan.
In conversation with Federica Muzzarelli, Full Professor of the History of Photography at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna.
At the end of the talk, the artist will sign copies of the ToiletMiles PaperAldridge magazine by Miles Aldridge, Maurizio Cattelan, and Pierpaolo Ferrari (Damiani Books, 2024). The book Chromotherapia. Feel-Good Color Photography, edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Sam Stourdzé (Damiani Books, 2025), will also be available for purchase. This book is related to the exhibition currently set up at Villa Medici, Rome, which features photographs by Aldridge.
In collaboration with the Department of Arts – University of Bologna and Damiani Books
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Miles Aldridge, born in London in 1964, is the son of famed art director and illustrator Alan Aldridge. An acclaimed colourist, Aldridge renders elaborate mise-en-scènes in a palette of vibrant acidic hues. These glamorous images probe society’s idealised notions of domestic bliss where sinister undercurrents swirl beneath a flawless surface. Aldridge has worked prolifically for more than thirty years. Miles’ work is in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria and Albert Museum and The British Museum and his work has subsequently been featured in TIME, The Face, the New Yorker and Vogue Italia. As one of Aldridge’s own inspirations, David Lynch, once said of his work: “Miles sees a color-coordinated, graphically pure, hard-edged reality.”
Federica Muzzarelli is Full Professor of History of Photography at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna. She coordinates the “Photography Art Feminism” Research Center and is co-director of the journal “piano b. Visual Arts and Cultures” and the series Fashion, Media And Culture: Perspectives on Global Lifestyle for Bloomsbury Member of the National Doctoral College “Image, Language, Figure.”