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"Fusa"Ekaterina Shcherbakova .shcherbakova_Artist in Officina, Via Ansano Landucci 44, 53049, Montefollonico, Torrita di...
10/06/2026

"Fusa"
Ekaterina Shcherbakova .shcherbakova_
Artist in Officina, Via Ansano Landucci 44, 53049, Montefollonico, Torrita di Siena, Italia
27.06-04.07.2026

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“Fusa” is the outcome of a month-long artistic residency at Officina, Montefollonico. The project takes its point of departure from the history of the village, whose ancient name, Monte a Follonica, refers to the Fullones—workers engaged in the production and dyeing of cloth.
In dialogue with this material history, local residents were invited to contribute unused textile objects—bed linens, garments, tablecloths, and domestic fabrics—which were transformed into a series of mobile sculptural forms. Positioned between body and architecture, these non-gendered forms function as vessels, shelters, and embodied archives, carrying traces of intimacy, memory, and collective experience. Suggestive of cocoons or protective structures, they propose the past not as something fixed, but as a site of latent transformation from which new narratives may emerge.
Activated through performance, the sculptures will come to life in a procession starting from the three gates of Montefollonico before gathering for an exhibition in the village centre. Accompanied by vocal gestures, the procession unfolds as a shared sonic and visual composition, where voices, movement, and textile forms become interwoven. (from pr)

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"A melody from the outside"Roberto Casti SimĂłndi, Via della Rocca, 29, 10123, Turin .gallery14.05-27.06.2026Read the com...
10/06/2026

"A melody from the outside"
Roberto Casti
SimĂłndi, Via della Rocca, 29, 10123, Turin .gallery
14.05-27.06.2026

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“A Melody from the Outside” is the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Roberto Casti (Iglesias, 1992), artist and musician who lives and works between Milan and Iglesias. A key concept in his practice is interdependence, which inextricably links the individual to the community, the human being to the planet they inhabit, and the audience to the artwork or the artistic event. Environmental and often marginal elements—sound, light, production waste, dust—become devices for rethinking the complexity and precariousness of existence, challenging an anthropocentric vision of reality. (from pr)

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"NATSUKO UCHINO Weaving Lines Stepping on Folds"Natsuko Uchino Curated by Fiammetta Griccioli and Cloé PerroneFONDAZIONE...
09/06/2026

"NATSUKO UCHINO Weaving Lines Stepping on Folds"
Natsuko Uchino
Curated by Fiammetta Griccioli and Cloé Perrone
FONDAZIONE PALAZZO CHIGI ZONDADARI, Banchi di Sotto 46, Siena
16.05-08.12.2026

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Threads connect what distance separates in "Weaving Lines Stepping on Folds", the first solo exhibition in Italy by Japanese artist Natsuko Uchino, presented as the fifth edition of CORTEMPORANEA at Palazzo Chigi Zondadari in Siena.
Working across weaving, embroidery, basketry and sound, Uchino builds an immersive body of site-specific works conceived in close collaboration with local artisans from the Sienese region, a methodology that is itself part of the work's meaning. The result is an exhibition that moves like fabric: layered, porous, alive with the weight of what has been handed down. At its core lies a reflection on how landscape is carried in the body, mapped not through abstraction but through gesture, material and oral transmission. [...] (from pr)

Images: "NATSUKO UCHINO Weaving Lines Stepping on Folds" exhibition views, ph OKNO STUDIO .studio, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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"When the Tongue is Free, the Hands Learn to Speak"Rebeka Xhaxha, Vasil Sharkov, Lara Amaya, Sofia Giacomelli, Elio Falc...
09/06/2026

"When the Tongue is Free, the Hands Learn to Speak"
Rebeka Xhaxha, Vasil Sharkov, Lara Amaya, Sofia Giacomelli, Elio Falcone, Polina Bolsheva, Elif Karatekin, Khushika Vansia, Pham Thi Diep Giang, Abhinav Kafare, Stefania Alexandra Meleaca, Ylenia Raviola .img .karatekin .flowr .raviola
Curated by Damini Yadav
Supported by Naba
Litostudio Milano, Via Giuseppe Ripamonti, 110, 20141 Milano MI
18.06-02.07.2026

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Lito Studio is pleased to present “When the Tongue is Free, the Hands Learn to Speak,” a group exhibition curated by Damini Yadav that brings together emerging contemporary artists whose practices engage with labour, care, and the often invisible structures that shape everyday life. (from pr)

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"A Corpo Torto"Nicolò CecchellaCurated and text by Ilaria Monti DISPLAY, Vicolo al Leon D'Oro 4/A, 43121 Parma, Italy 23...
08/06/2026

"A Corpo Torto"
Nicolò Cecchella
Curated and text by Ilaria Monti
DISPLAY, Vicolo al Leon D'Oro 4/A, 43121 Parma, Italy
23.05-28.06.2026

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Voids, transparencies and reflections, burns. Forms of an exposed body, a twisted body offered up to the world. Nicolò Cecchella’s work stems from the perception of a reality now reduced to tatters, from which he gathers traces and fragments and fuses into the dense, living matter of things. An open brass head revealing its soul is accompanied by two shattered eyes which are closed — they are casts of the artist’s own eyes — while the film of a photograph burns like skin and shrivels into aluminum, silicon, and other charred residues. Taken together, Cecchella’s works explore the same research around the blind spot of the image where the real and its projection blend together as they touch, blurring the distinction between the phenomenal and visible dimension of perception and what instead lies latent, born within the inner gaze: neither surreal nor unreal, but rather interreal. Art, and sculpture more than any other practice, has traditionally conceived form as the moment in which matter either comes to fulfilment or falls apart. Cecchella’s work seems to stay at an earlier, unstable stage of morphogenesis, lingering on the brief instant in which form does not yet fully coincide with itself, but continues to be in motion and to manifest its own becoming.

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These works are inner frameworks of the body, survivals of what would otherwise decay. They are witnesses, archives, impressionable surfaces. Or perhaps nothing more than the frayed edge along where matter and body itself trace their being in the world. [...] (from pr)

Images: "A Corpo Torto" exhibition views, ph Nicolò Cecchella, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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"Francesca Polizzi - Lunaria"Francesca Polizzi Text by Daniele Franzella .franzellaRizzutoGallery, via Maletto 5, Palerm...
04/06/2026

"Francesca Polizzi - Lunaria"
Francesca Polizzi
Text by Daniele Franzella .franzella
RizzutoGallery, via Maletto 5, Palermo
09.05-20.06.2026

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“Lunaria” marks a milestone in the artist’s research, presenting a body of previously unpublished works that explore the concept of natural ruin and the process of subtraction as a generative principle of form. The exhibition project begins with a reflection on Lunaria annua, a plant whose final configuration appears to result from a process of subtraction. When the fruit dries, the seed falls, and the matter empties, a thin membrane remains, a transparent disk that retains only the traces of its own existence. Through references to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies and Georg Simmel's aesthetic reflections, the exhibition explores ruin not as simple dissolution but as an active form. [...] (from pr)

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"LA MAMMA | Luigi Presicce"Luigi Presicce Supported by Community Hub / Culture Ibride, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Si...
03/06/2026

"LA MAMMA | Luigi Presicce"
Luigi Presicce
Supported by Community Hub / Culture Ibride, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Giallo Menta aps, Via Quinto Settano 27A, Siena
09.05-20.06.2026

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“La Mamma” (The Mother) is a work created and conceived specifically for the former newsstand, a small architectural structure that once served as a point for distributing newspapers and magazines in the peripheral Le Terrazze neighborhood of Siena. The work had a long genesis, beginning with a period of research carried out by the artist and culminating when the newsstand once again opened up its interior space to create a narrative around that indescribable moment of birth.
“La Mamma” in fact simulates a marine environment, a kind of aquarium where sea monkeys — fantastical creatures born from the imaginative vision of the 1970s — spend their lives blissfully under the gaze of human beings. [...] (from pr, transl. Dobroslawa Nowak)

Images: "LA MAMMA | Luigi Presicce" exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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In this month’s guide, we move across Rome, Florence, and Turin, where three contemporary art exhibitions offer various ...
02/06/2026

In this month’s guide, we move across Rome, Florence, and Turin, where three contemporary art exhibitions offer various ways of seeing the world.
In Rome, Latefa Wiersch explores how cinema has shaped—and often distorted—our understanding of ancient history and cultural identity. In Florence, SUPERFLEX transforms Palazzo Strozzi into a speculative ecosystem that shifts attention away from human-centered thinking toward other forms of life. In Turin, Giorgio Griffa’s anniversary becomes an occasion for reflection on painting as a process, where unfinished gestures open up a meditative space of possibility.

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In questa guida mensile di giugno ci spostiamo tra Roma, Firenze e Torino, dove tre mostre di arte contemporanea offrono diversi modi di vedere il mondo.
A Roma, Latefa Wiersch esplora come il cinema abbia plasmato — e spesso distorto — la nostra comprensione della storia antica e delle identità culturali. A Firenze, SUPERFLEX trasforma Palazzo Strozzi in un ecosistema speculativo che sposta l’attenzione da una visione antropocentrica verso altre forme di vita. A Torino, l’anniversario di Giorgio Griffa diventa un’occasione di riflessione sulla pittura come processo, in cui gesti incompiuti aprono uno spazio meditativo di possibilità.

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Images: Latefa Wiersch, “Re:I had a fun idea (2026),” Atlas Studios installation view, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, 2026 © Daniele Molajoli; “SUPERFLEX. There Are Other Fish In The Sea” installation view, Photo Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze; Giorgio Griffa. Omaggio per i 90 anni installation view, ph Perottino

"IL QUIPROQUO"Anna de Castro Barbosa Text by Caterina AvataneoSupported by Third Born GalleryFRENCH PLACE, Via Carlo Gol...
01/06/2026

"IL QUIPROQUO"
Anna de Castro Barbosa
Text by Caterina Avataneo
Supported by Third Born Gallery
FRENCH PLACE, Via Carlo Goldoni 64, 20129, Milan,
29.04-28.06.2026

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“IL QUIPROQUO” takes shape from Anna De Castro Barbosa’s ongoing research into perception, fragmentation, and the instability of forms. Drawing on the motifs of the folding screen and the fan, the exhibition explores processes of concealment and revelation, in which images, bodies, and narratives emerge only partially, continually slipping between recognition and ambiguity. [...] (from pr)

Images: "IL QUIPROQUO" exhibition views, ph Francesco Paleari, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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"Venice Pavillion - Artefici del nostro tempo collective exhibition"Elisa Capucci, Nicole Colombo, Jonathan Soliman, Reb...
29/05/2026

"Venice Pavillion - Artefici del nostro tempo collective exhibition"
Elisa Capucci, Nicole Colombo, Jonathan Soliman, Rebecca Zen
Curated by ''Artefici del nostro tempo'' jury and Padiglione Venezia
Organized by Municipality of Venice, ''Artefici del nostro tempo'' prize and Padiglione Venezia
Supported by Municipality of Venice
Padiglione Venezia, 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia; In Minor Keys, Giardini della Biennale, Calle Giazzo, Venice
09.05-22.11.2026

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This is a collective exhibition featuring four emerging artists under 35, who after winning the first prizes for every category of the ''Artefici del Nostro Tempo'' award, are presenting their works at the Venice Pavilion throughout the entire duration of the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale.

With different media and languages, the artists interpret this year’s theme of the Venice Biennale, ''In Minor Keys''. Through sculpture, installation, photography, and painting, their works explore fragile states of transformation, suspension, memory, and resistance.

Elisa Capucci, with ''The Post-material Archive 03'', presents an installation centered on the evolving life cycle of a hybrid organism. [...] Nicole Colombo’s ''Take a Deep, Deep Breath'' introduces a tense and suspended sculptural presence, driven by its own weight and vulnerability. [...] Jonathan Soliman, with ''It’s a Fire'', inspired by the Portishead song, presents a diptych of Polaroids displayed inside their original cartridges. [...] In Rebecca Zen’s painting ''Il rumore di una foresta che cade'', the title refers to the well-known aphorism, “A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest,” attributed to Lao Tzu, a Chinese philosopher of the 1st century b.c. [...] (from pr)

Images: "Venice Pavillion - Artefici del nostro tempo collective exhibition" exhibition views, ph Osvaldo Di Pierantonio and Elena Andreato, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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