Nicolò Rinaldi

Tutto appare autentico. Ma non lo è. La mostra di Nicolò Rinaldi, fotografo documentarista e visual researcher, ti porta in un paesaggio dove realtà e simulazione si confondono. In “W.E.I.R.D. – Wilderness Emulation Implicates Rapid Destruction”, la natura diventa artificio, replica, illusione. Attraverso fotografie, tracce sonore e video-installazioni, l’artista costruisce un’esperienza immersiva e multisensoriale che mette in discussione la nostra capacità di distinguere ciò che è naturale da ciò che ne è solo il simulacro. 📅 Dall’11 al 23 novembre 2025 📍 Ducale Spazio Aperto 🕚 Da martedì a domenica, 11–18 👉Talk 15 ottobre 2025 ore 17.30 | Visite guidate con l’autore 11 novembre 2025 ore 18.30, 16 e 23 novembre 2025, ore 15 e 17 🎟️ Ingresso libero Scopri di più al link in bio! [Il progetto è sostenuto da Strategia Fotografia 2024, promosso dalla Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura]

Portfolio 2025 Link in bio.

15.03.2025 My first solo show. “Tourist Tsunami – Il turismo come performance” is not just a collection of photographs but an immersive experience that invites visitors to explore and question the dynamics of contemporary tourism. The exhibition features several interactive installations that recreate typical tourist experiences. One of them is a photospot with the sign “BEST PLACE FOR A SELFIE”, encouraging visitors to become active participants rather than mere observers. Another installation, “INSTRUCTIONS FOR SENDING A POSTCARD”, allows visitors to purchase and send a postcard with real postage, just as they would while traveling. There will also be a gift shop, because no tourist destination is complete without one—offering t-shirts, posters, and postcards related to the exhibition. Among the most significant elements is a rotating postcard stand that mimics the act of flipping through postcards, replacing them with my photographs and transforming the gesture into a more intimate and immersive experience. Additionally, a sculpture titled “Selfie Stick, 2025” will be displayed and illuminated like a relic, suggesting a sense of temporal distance and prompting reflection on how today’s tourism might be perceived in the future. Finally, visitors will be able to leave a message in a passport-style guestbook, reinforcing the themes of travel and memory. The entire exhibition will be accompanied by an audio track composed of sound samples collected during my documentation sessions of the phenomenon. OPENING HOURS: Saturday-Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Monday-Friday: By appointment Special thanks: @ass_sembra @industree.store @osteriafondo @luciddreams.it @francescogirardi_masterchef12 @enri.fantini @elia.toni @manuelanobile @gae.515 @otttaa__ Media partner: @il_fotografo_magazine @nopanic_senzafretta #TouristTsunami #PhotographyExhibition #Overtourism #AssociazioneSembra

I still can’t believe it. “W.E.I.R.D.” has been selected as one of the 10 finalists in the ART category of the Hasselblad Masters 2026, out of more than 100,000 images submitted worldwide. Public voting is now open and plays a role in the final decision alongside the jury. If you’d like to support the project, you can vote via the link in my bio. #HasselbladMasters2026

New images available for licensing via @connectedarchives 🔗 From my archive (2015-2026)

Today’s feature on @imagine5_official 🌱 Via @connectedarchives 🔗 Happy Mother’s Day, Nature ! 🌍

New images available for licensing via @connectedarchives 🔗🌅🌊 From my archive (2015-2026)

“Grain of These Days” postcard series now available for licensing via @connectedarchives 🎞️ From my archive (2021-2026)

New images soon available for licensing via @connectedarchives 🔗 From my archive (2015-2026)

Yesterday on @voguemagazine 🌸 “An Ode to Cherry Blossom Season, As Captured by 11 Photographers” By Anna Grace Lee (supernovagrrl) Special tanks @doublekoek @connectedarchives 🔗

During an artist residency in Kyoto, the Italian photographer Nicolò Rinaldi pursues W.E.I.R.D. — a visual essay on biomimicry, artifice, and the uncanny frontier where nature ends and its simulation begins. The title W.E.I.R.D. functions less as an acronym than as a diagnosis: a series of photographs that examines the various ways in which humans have set about replicating the natural world within artificial environments. The project draws on the scientific discipline of biomimicry — which analyses biological systems in order to reproduce their designs and processes for technological and industrial application — and asks, through images, what it feels like to inhabit the products of that ambition. "Everything you can imagine," reads the Einstein quotation that opens the series, "nature has already created." What Rinaldi investigates is the inverse: everything nature has created, humans have subsequently tried to imagine again. Photography: @nclrnld Read more at thisispaper.com

Unposted photos from “Tourist Tsunami”. Japan, April 2025. 1. Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto. 2. Sensō-ji, Tokyo. 3. Tokyo Skytree. 4. Arashiyama, Kyoto. 5. Shibuya, Tokyo. 6. Tokyo DisneySea. 7. Philosopher’s path, Kyoto. 8. Arashiyama, Kyoto.