Overview
- His Bologna gallery P420 announced his death at age 89 and did not specify a cause.
- Museion in Bolzano plans a March retrospective timed to what would have been his 90th birthday.
- He pioneered audience-completed works he termed “exhibitions in real time,” notably a Photomatic installation at the 1972 Venice Biennale.
- The nationwide Photomatic d’Italia project (1972–74) amassed about 40,000 donated photobooth self-portraits.
- A physicist by training, he articulated photography’s “technological unconscious” in a 1979 essay and later explored bar codes and QR codes as institutions renewed attention to his work.