Vimercati was a meticulous and essential photographer, interpreter of the silent and repetitive nature of the real. His interest has always been directed to the analysis of everyday objects, like a bottle of mineral water, an electric iron, a tureen, and to the composition and decomposition of the scene, repeatedly assembled according to the need of the photographic eye. Marked by the experience of photographers such as Luigi Ghirri and Ugo Mulas, Franco Vimercati made his first photographic series Sulle Langhe, in 1973. After this experience, the artist isolated the camera within his four walls and in 1975 produced a series comprising thirty-six photographs of bottles of mineral water. Influenced by the new artistic discoveries of minimalism and figures such as Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin and Giulio Paolini, Franco Vimercati soon began to complicate the photographed object in form and composition, by focusing on a more limited selection of items. It is no longer the series to be potentially infinite but the possibilities of the representation that are always different. Important solo shows have been recently dedicated to the artist: 2014 Die Dinge des Lebens / Das Leben der Dinge. Franco Vimercati & George Kubler, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden; 2012 Franco Vimercati. Tutte le cose emergono dal nulla, Palazzo Fortuny, Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia, Venice; 2009 Fotografia Europa – Eternità. Il tempo dellʼimmagine, Reggio Emilia. Among the recent solo exhibitions: 2015 Cantiere del ʻ900.2. Works from the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, Gallerie dʼItalia, Milan; 2012 Addio anni settanta. Arte a Milano1969/1980, Palazzo Reale, Milan; 2010 Conceptual Art – The Panza Collection, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; 2008 Italics – Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia e Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.