For the 12th edition of Archivi Aperti (“Open Archives”)—an event dedicated to promoting Italy’s photographic heritage, held from October 16 to 25, 2026, at various venues across the country—we opened the invaluable Giuseppe Pino Archive to the public. Thanks to the generosity of Superstudio and Gisella Borioli, the archive is now housed at Superstudio 13, located at Via Forcella 13 in Milan. This is a particularly significant setting: these historic Milanese photographic studios, established by Flavio Lucchini in 1983, served as a landmark for a golden age of international photography, playing a decisive role in shaping and promoting the image of "Made in Italy" worldwide.

Giuseppe Pino—renowned for his extraordinary portraits of jazz legends and other prominent figures—is, in a sense, returning to a place with which he was deeply connected and where he frequently worked during his stays in Milan. This return is facilitated by his friend, art director Pier Paolo Pitacco, who curated the exhibition.
The presence of his archive in these spaces is, therefore, more than just an act of preservation; it is a symbolic return to his roots, within an environment that shared a significant chapter of his professional history.
Visitors had the opportunity to discover an extraordinary body of work, beginning with over 300 analog photographic prints—selected by Pino himself, many of which he printed personally over the decades. Together, these works reveal the richness of his vision, the sensitivity of his artistic inquiry, and the importance of the photographic print as the definitive expression of the photographer’s craft. The Giuseppe Pino Archive tells a story that goes well beyond his work as a photographer. It serves as a testament to an inexhaustible intellectual curiosity, fueled by a profound passion for visual culture, cinema, and—above all—music.
Alongside his photographs, the archive houses an extensive library of books on photography, a rich collection of DVDs spanning the very best of world cinema, and an extraordinary collection of approximately 1,000 vinyl records—nearly all of them first editions—that document the history of jazz, from its origins to its most contemporary expressions.
This collection is further complemented by thousands of CDs, amassed with passion from the 1980s until his passing in 2022.
Taken as a whole, the archive is not merely a record of a great photographer’s body of work; it offers a portrait of a man of vast and multifaceted culture, capable of weaving together photography, cinema, and music into a personal, coherent vision of the world.
Opening the Giuseppe Pino Archive to the public means more than just preserving and sharing a legacy of images; it means providing access to the cultural and human universe that nurtured his remarkable artistic sensibility.
The Giuseppe Pino Archive expands the focus of the Superstudio Group to encompass all forms of visual art—from the FLA (FlavioLucchiniArt) Museum and the MyOwnGallery, which explores new artistic languages, to the ArtRoof (featuring an installation by Michelangelo Pistoletto), the ArtGarden (showcasing sculptures by Flavio Lucchini), and the various other artworks housed throughout our venues.
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