Remembering Ugo Mulas: Celebrating 28 Years Since His Passing

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the passing of Ugo Mulas, one of the greatest Italian photographers and certainly one of the most renowned worldwide.

This is evidenced by the fact that, after many years, exhibitions dedicated to the photographs of the great artist, born in Pozzolengo on August 28, 1928, to a Trentino mother and a Sardinian father, a marshal of the Carabinieri and the station commander of the town, continue to be successfully held.

The young Mulas completed his studies up to high school in Desenzano, then moved to Milan where he was supposed to attend university.

Ugo Mulas’s Artistic Calling

But Ugo Mulas was a free spirit, with a strong artistic vocation. Fate guided him toward photography, even though, at the time, he told his friend Franco Piavoli, an avid photographer: “Forget photography, it’s a lesser art.”

Perhaps it was indeed a lesser art, but Ugo Mulas transformed it into a sublime art, into poetry.

His End and Remembrance

Unfortunately, fate reserved a cruel end for him, an unforgiving illness that prematurely removed a noble, sensitive, yet humble and available soul from the stage of photography.

His remains rest in the small cemetery of Pozzolengo, where he was born, a place he never forgot and to which he returned at the end of his earthly journey.