Manfredi Gioacchini

Manfredi Gioacchini photographs the way one travels: slowly, with care, letting places speak before capturing them. Roman by origin but visually shaped between Europe and the United States, over the years he has developed a practice that brings together portraiture, interiors and documentary storytelling, always filtered through a sensibility rooted in classical art. He is not interested in the spectacular moment, but in the layering of time. His journey into photography began early, at the age of twelve, through his father’s Hasselblad and the family holiday pictures. It was there that he discovered photography as more than mere recording — as construction, choice and waiting. A lesson that became method, leading him to explore human action, the spaces we inhabit and the silences we leave behind. After the success of Portraits of Artists (2016), Gioacchini shifted his focus toward landscape with Floating Islands (2020), a poetic exploration of the planet’s last unspoiled areas. With Grand Tour (2024), the circle closes and opens again on Italy — not the postcard version, but a suspended, intimate country finally freed from the noise of mass tourism.
It is precisely this project that, until February 22, inhabits the spaces of Casa Monti, transforming the ground-floor common areas into a lived-in gallery, where photography becomes part of everyday life, like a slow breath. For Gioacchini, every image is born from study and listening: “To photograph a work of art, a monument or a place, you must first study it. Only through preparation can you grasp its true soul, its true beauty.” A philosophy that makes Grand Tour not a nostalgic tribute, but a refined and contemporary rereading of Italy’s heritage, where memory and the present meet in a silence full of meaning.