From October 2025 to May 2026, the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia pays tribute to Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000), one of the absolute protagonists of contemporary photography, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

The exhibition, curated by Alessandro Sarteanesi, a new chapter of the project Camera Oscura. The National Gallery of Umbria for photography, presents a core of never-before-exhibited works by Mario Giacomelli, focusing on the Umbrian landscape, all characterized by an almost "painterly" use of color, a truly unusual feature for the artist, known mostly for images that play on strong contrasts, between whites and blacks, fullness and emptiness.

The exhibition is also an opportunity to deepen the artistic relationship and human connection between Alberto Burri and Mario Giacomelli - some photographs bear dedications to the master from Città di Castello - who framed their research, albeit in different ways, within the Italian Informal art movement of the post-war period.

The central core of the exhibition is represented by 5 unpublished small-scale works, taken in the Sixties on the plateaus of Colfiorito and Castelluccio di Norcia. In addition to these, there are about ten abstract works, contemporaneous with the previous ones, also in color, which show how Giacomelli is fully able to consider himself a visual artist, despite using photography as his expressive medium, combining the theme of landscape with that of color in a single pictorial element.