Giorgio Wolfensberger

Giorgio Wolfensberger, born in Zurich in 1945, grew up in Winterthur and died in 2016 in his adopted geographical and political home of Umbria, was not only an industrial photographer, filmmaker, specialist in slide shows, connoisseur and author of the Swiss expressive dancer and dance teacher Suzanne Perrottet, extraordinary sleuth for photography in archives, but altogether a collector and photographer endowed with a seventh sense for things in the world. He seems to have been drawn to the peculiarities of the everyday, the deviations from the rule, the play of objects, the humorous and the grotesque in the course of the world, as if his eyes, his nose, his fingers were probes magnetically connected to material reality. On assignment for an exhibition project or a book, roaming freely around the city or driving around the L.