The Italian Art Guide (2025)

04/08/2025

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01/08/2025

“and the ground begins to breathe”
Alessandro Biggio, Irene Dionisio, Kyriaki Goni, Nona Inescu, Lucia Pizzani, Natália Trejbalová, Rachel Youn , , .goni.studio, , , ,
Curated by Giacomo Pigliapoco
FuoriCampo, via dei Termini 44, Siena \ second location: Limonaia di Villa Griccioli, Strada di Montechiaro 3, Siena
14.06-07.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

[...] "and the ground begins to breathe" stems from this subtle and decisive passage: the imperceptible instant when something begins to change beneath the visible surface, when the ground, still compact and silent, opens up, moves and comes alive. [...]

Germination, in this sense, becomes a symbol of another, ecological time, in which every transformation requires care, patience and listening. (excerpts from pr)

Images: “and the ground begins to breathe” exhibition views, ph OKNO Studio, Ela Bialkowska .studio / .bialkowska, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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30/07/2025

“Resti sensibili”
Laura Santamaria, Meri Tancredi, Sasha Toli, Chiara Ventura , , .toli,
Curated by Lorenzo Rubini .rubini
THEPÒSITO Art Space, Via del Parco 1, 05035, Narni Scalo (TR)
07.07-15.08.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

[...] In the work of the artists on show the body withdraws from representation to manifest itself through its consequences: traces, signs, prints, absences which do not return the body as a form, but as a material memory, as a settled gesture, as a surface crossed by time.

The trace, as Georges Didi-Huberman writes, is «the inscription of history according to a specific way of understanding temporality, which the image conveys in its relationship with the past». (from pr)

Images: “Resti sensibili” exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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29/07/2025

“CRUISING GIARDINI”
Marc Turlan
Curated by Anton Sibenaler
Text by Pierre Oudart
CASETTA STUDIO spazio rurale per l'arte contemporanea, via Grottella esterna, Copertino (LE)
11.07-30.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

It is first and foremost a cave where erotic cave art unfolds, a sort of contemporary and secretly lascivious “Lascaux”. It is also one of those brothels (“lupanari”) found in Pompei, both public and private, with suggestive scenes.

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In the erotic process, the signifier and the signified maintain a particular bond—fantasy—which gives rise to desire; there is no desire without fantasy. The images presented are not erotic, for by designating fantasy as fantasy, they exhaust it in a single movement. It is within this exhaustion, this saturation, that the essence of the artistic approach lies. (excerpts from pr, edited in English by Dobroslawa Nowak)

Images: “CRUISING GIARDINI” exhibition views, ph Emanuele Gatto , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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28/07/2025

“Andrea Magnani - 45th Pedaso Flat Red Onion Festival”
Andrea Magnani .magnani
Curated by Matilde Galletti
Gallery: Karussell
Riva Fiorita, Porto San Giorgio, Viale della Vittoria 195-199, Fermo
05.07-15.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

[...] Here, every element is poised on an unstable threshold, constantly teetering between reality and representation. The intervention moves along the axes of visual art, performance, and expanded choreography, giving shape to a suspended condition — a fragile sense of being.

The title deliberately adopts the popular lexicon of local village festivals, yet conceals a critical stance that unhinges narrative conventions and questions the automatic adherence to what is perceived as real. The project originates from a sensorial childhood memory of the artist: summer festivals perceived from a distance, overheard from the balcony at night as light, spectral presences — distant orchestras filling the warm air.

From this affective suggestion, a narrative construction takes shape, echoing the historic and media aura of The War of the Worlds, the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles that, by simulating an alien invasion, caused widespread panic among its listeners.[...] (excerpts from pr)

Images: “Andrea Magnani - 45th Pedaso Flat Red Onion Festival” exhibition views, ph Alessio Beato , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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25/07/2025

“Charles Darwin and Steve lrwin Owned the Same Tortoise”
Arianna Iodice, Federico Poni, Leitu Bonnici, Valentino Russo, ZenoNan/Uneu .zenonan, , , , .js,
Curated by Federica Balletto, Rachele Calisti ,
Text by Rachele Calisti
Palazzo Bronzo, Salita di Mascherona 18r, Genova
16.05-06.06.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

In 1835, Charles Darwin left the Galápagos Islands on board the Beagle, taking some giant tortoises with him. One of them, named Harriet, was born around 1830 on the island of Santa Cruz – which, curiously enough, Darwin never visited. (from pr)

Images: “Charles Darwin and Steve lrwin Owned the Same Tortoise” exhibition views, courtesy the artists and the gallery, ph Kelly Studio ;

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24/07/2025

“Long Story Short”
Alessandro Di Pietro
Curated and text by Federico Del Vecchio
Flip Project, via Giovanni Paladino 8, Naples /
07.07-12.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

In a future still to be written and already corroded, Alessandro Di Pietro constructs a visual language that acts as a grammar of the world: a system where objects, signs, and characters intertwine to shape unstable and fragmented narrative universes. [...] A choreographer of narrative, he layers linguistic ruins, retro-futuristic residues, and pseudo-technical signage in works that function as non-objective technologies—devices meant more to evoke than to display. (excerpt from the curatorial text by Federico Del Vecchio)

Images: “Long Story Short” exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery, ph Danilo Donzelli;

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23/07/2025

"Lorenzo Aceto - Wurzelkinder”
Lorenzo Aceto
Francesca Referza
Quartz Studio, via Giulia di Barolo, 18/D 10124, Turin .torino
30.07-13.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

The artist explains that the exhibition title is from the children's book Etwas von den Wurzelkinder, translated as "The Story of the Root Children." This early 20th-century story, written and illustrated by Sibylle von Olfers, is about children who live underground in the winter and come out during spring to forage for insects, flowers, and fruit, before returning to the depths of the earth in autumn. The artist found this image to be evocative and resonant with his work, deeply connected to the earth as a generative and regenerative element. The earth receives, transforms, and absorbs, and it is where figures merge, shifting from subject to object. [...] (from pr)

Images: “Lorenzo Aceto - Wurzelkinder” exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery, ph Beppe Giardino;

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22/07/2025

“HEY, YAY!”
Marco-Augusto Basso, Denise Tosato
Curated by Lukas Weithas
DOCK 20, Pontenstraße 20, Lustenau
08.05.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

The project, realized concurrently with the spaces of DOCK20 in Lustenau, inhabits the grey area of the fusion of happening, concert and performance.
The space is set up to disorient the spectator and make him imagine that he is attending a concert that has already taken place, merging with the moment of disassembly.
The performance thus unfolds in each room of the building, creating moments of dislocated connection. Performers and spectators act in the space, blending into each other. The vocal part is entrusted with an ironic and poignant stream of consciousness that questions the spectator, broken up by chants; the sound apparatus, on the other hand, is entrusted with a deconstruction that refers to the logic of ambivalence present in the world.
Social dynamics concerning expectations, the enjoyment of a concert and spatial and mental disorganisation are questioned. (from pr)

Images: “HEY, YAY!” exhibition views, ph Darko Todorovic , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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21/07/2025

“ANGELI MURATORI”
Pietro Librizzi
ADA, via dei Genovesi 35, Rome
02.07-13.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

[…]

It is known that / somehow / they came across the fountain. / A sparkling liquid / gushed out.
/ They would gulp the stuff down / by instinct / with no understanding / and build temples / columns and arches / why / we don’t know / castles. / Okay / a refinery, a factory or a villa / a horse or a cloud / seem a natural consequence / which makes one think / «to create is to abandon» / eat eat eat / to forget / that papers / kill magicians too / and / make / the obvious / useless. (excerpt from pr)

Images: “ANGELI MURATORI” exhibition views, ph Roberto Apa, courtesy of ADA, Rome;

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18/07/2025

"Guilty Party *in three acts*"
Jacopo Dal Bello, Ekaterina Costa, Federica Mariani, Giorgio Mattia, Sidonie Pellegrino , , , ,
Curated by Iana Pitenko
Lusvardi Art, Corso Buenos Aires, 45, Milan .art
12.06-12.09.2025

The complete text and photo documentation of the exhibition is available on theitalianartguide.com web platform. (🔗 in stories)

Taking the form of a performative inquiry, the exhibition explores how mythologies—understood through Roland Barthes' lens—transform collective emotions such as guilt, shame, and others into tools of manipulation. Myth, in Barthes’ terms, is not a lie or fiction but a depoliticized form of speech that conceals ideology beneath familiar signs—stripping them of complex meaning and turning them into self-evident, unquestionable truths. [...]

[...] Through embodied experience, the exhibition explores how emotions are socially engineered and unconsciously reproduced by us—the myth consumers. It questions whether passive spectatorship makes us complicit: are we victims of the myth, or do we also perpetuate it by failing to confront its layers and core? In this sense, “Guilty Party” holds a mirror to our emotional and political entanglement with myth today. (from pr)

Images: "Guilty Party *in three acts*" exhibition views, ph Riccardo Giancola , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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17/07/2025

"Scegliere Venezia come sede per questo progetto ha richiesto sensibilità, umiltà e consapevolezza della natura paradossale della città, della sua grandezza e fragilità, così come della sua resistenza e vulnerabilità. 🌊🫱🏼‍🫲🏽
Ho ritenuto essenziale non imporre una narrazione su Venezia, ma instaurare un dialogo radicato nell’ascolto e nella presenza locale. — spiega la curatrice Kasia Sobucka, intervistata da Marianna Reggiani nell'articolo pubblicato oggi sulle pagine di TIAG: "Memories of Water, Memories of Air. A Venezia, artisti internazionali intonano canti per la collettività."

☕️📖 L'articolo è pubblicato in due versioni: italiana e inglese. The English version, prepared for our international readers, was edited by Dobroslawa Nowak.

"[...] Curando il programma, il mio intento non è stato quello di trattare Venezia come uno sfondo o una metafora, ma di considerarla una partecipante. Venezia ci insegna che la resilienza non è né rumorosa né grandiosa. È frutto di un accumulo, costruita da piccoli gesti di attenzione e perseveranza. È questo lo spirito alla base del progetto." — continua la curatrice.🫂

"Memories of Water, Memories of Air" è un progetto immersivo sulle emergenze contemporanee organizzato da Arts Territory, con il supporto della Presidenza Polacca del Consiglio Europeo.

Artisti: Monika Błaszczak, felicita, Karolina Łebek, Paweł Sakowicz,Konrad Smoleński, Rafał Zajko & Zoee, Gaetano Di Gregorio e il collettivo Fugaz.

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ph: Monika Błaszczak,“Clay”(1), Konrad Smoleński,“Waiting Room,”(2,5,8),foto dall'evento (3), Gaetano di Gregorio,“Water Breaks, Water Builds,”(4),Fugaz Collective,“Volumen 2,”(6), Rafał Zajko/Zoee,"Denim III"(7), parte di “Memories of Water, Memories of Air,” organizzzato da Ditto Foundation & Arts Territory, Venice 2025; foto: Clelia Cadamuro, courtesy of the artists, Ditto Foundation, Arts Territory;

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