Via Emilia – Crossroads

Nino Migliori has been developing some of the most articulated and interesting research in European image culture since 1948. Experimenter, sensitive explorer and alternative reader, his visual production has always been characterised by a great visionary ability that he infused in an original and brand new work. From the preface by Beatrice Buscaroli: Migliori has created this road of images captured simultaneously ahead and behind on the ancient Roman road, which for everyone is the road that goes to the sea, or that the stretch of buses in the middle of Bologna. The strada Maggiore of which Dante in De vulgari eloquentia applauded the language is the Via Emilia, and with it via San felice in Bologna, but who ever thinks of this? (...) What is surprising is its outcome, the courage, the adventure. Migliori in the middle of the traffic, trucks, road signs, roundabouts and more roundabouts, pedestrian zones, crossings, crossroads...