Jeff Wall was born in 1946, in Vancouver, where he still lives and works. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide over the past forty years. His pictures often depict events the artist has witnessed and reconstructed in a process he calls “cinematography.” His subject matter ranges from everyday occurrences photographed in real places to imaginary situations composed in a studio. Jeff Wall is considered to be a central artist, who since the 1970s has led the way in emphasizing the affinities between photography, painting, and cinema. He taught art at universities in Canada for twenty-five years, and his critical writing has been collected and published in several languages. His work has been the subject of numerous and important retrospective exhibitions around the world. More recently at the Beyeler Museum in Basel last year, the MAAT in Lisbon or now, parallel, at the Galleria d’arte in Torino. And now at Fondazione MAST in Bologna.