More than forty years of shots presented in the great exhibition curated by Daniel Rouvier and Ariane Carmignac promoted by the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice and the Réattu Museum in Arles in France , from 17 December 2022 to 1 May 2023, created thanks to the support of the Veneto Region, with the support of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Banca Mediolanum, Venice International Foundation and the patronage of the Institut français Italia, the City of Arles and the Municipality of Venice.

"Graziano Arici's personal work is of an aesthetic, intellectual and technical richness, of a quality that arouses admiration" - so Daniel Rouvier co -curator of the exhibition and director of the Réattu Museum in Arles - "It cannot be reduced to a simple documentary look at the world , testimony of its evolution, its riches and its eccentricities. This common thread exists, but the photographer transcends it, making each of his images a photographic work in its own right, both plastically and emotionally ”.

The Graziano Arici exhibition. Beyond Venice ' Now is the Winter of our Discontent' , "L'Inverno del nostro Scontento", (initial phrase of Shakespeare's Richard III monologue, Act I, scene 1), presents an archive of the world (Albania, Germany, England , Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, United States, France, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland), a 'state of affairs' .

And the Querini Stampalia Foundation that hosts it has also become a place of photography : a center for photographic documentation, especially on Venice, and for studying the history of photography itself. Its photographic funds, which collect almost 3,000,000 images, are a story of the world and of perhaps the most represented city in the world. In 2017 Graziano Arici donates his Archive - of more than one and a half million images, made up largely of his work but also of thousands of photographs, prints and tens of thousands of negatives of portraits and images of international culture to Venice prior to the start of his work - to the Querini Stampalia Foundation which is committed to safeguarding and enhancing it. This donation has prompted other photographers to see the Foundation as a point of conservation and enhancement of their work.