Jeff Wall is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential photographic artists working today. Since the late 1970s, he has transformed the language of photography by weaving together the traditions of painting, the narrative strategies of cinema, the insights of critical theory, and the imagery of contemporary visual culture.

For over four decades, Wall has oscillated between meticulously staged tableaux and seemingly spontaneous documentary-style images, producing works that examine the full spectrum of contemporary experience. His photographs, often displayed at monumental scale, transform everyday situations into uncanny and dreamlike moments, at once familiar and unsettling. They are visual structures of great complexity, combining narrative, enigma, and acute analysis.

The exhibition offers a major survey of Wall’s practice, spanning from his groundbreaking works of the late 1970s to his most recent pictures. It reveals the multi-layered evolution of an artist committed to exploring the tensions between fiction and reality, intimacy and spectacle, artifice and observation.

The accompanying volume Jeff Wall Photographs, curated by David Campany and published by Allemandi, is a landmark publication for Italian audiences. It presents a sophisticated yet accessible reading of Wall’s work, bringing together many of his most emblematic images within a coherent critical framework.

A distinctive feature of the book is the inclusion of two full-page details for each photograph, inviting readers to closely examine the richness of Wall’s imagery. These details—whether objects and settings, gestures and postures, or peripheral elements—often contain crucial interpretive clues that expand the narrative possibilities of each work. In this way, Wall’s photographs, conceived as intricate visual constructions, reveal their depth as narrative, enigmatic, and analytical forms.

Lavishly printed in large format with high-quality finishes, the volume serves both as a vital scholarly resource and as a collector’s object. It is destined for universities, libraries, museums, and anyone interested in deepening their understanding of one of the most influential artists of our time.