From February 21 to July 5, 2026 The Rooms of Photography present on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore the major exhibition dedicated to one of the absolute masters of 20th-century photography: Horst P. Horst (Weissenfels-an-der-Saale, 1906 - Florida, 1999). Curated by Anne Morin in collaboration with Denis Curti, the exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace offers an original and transversal interpretation of the work of the German-American photographer, revealing its complexity beyond the fashion photography that made him famous on the pages of Vogue.

The exhibition brings together over 300 works, many of which are presented for the first time, color photographs that arrive in Italy on this occasion, exhibited alongside vintage prints, drawings, documents, and unpublished materials, inviting to discover an artist who transformed photography into a reflection on harmony, proportion, and beauty as balance between parts and the whole.

Far from mere aesthetic exercise, Horst conceives the image as an architecture of forms and light, a language that is both rigorous and sensual. His photographs, constructed according to precise proportional relationships, refer to that search for perfection that runs through the history of art, from Phidias to Le Corbusier, his master during his Parisian years.