This collection showcases unique and visionary projects. Moreover, each piece represents artistic research and experimentation. As a result, the selection offers innovative perspectives. Therefore, we invite you to explore and be inspired.
PHYSIS GLITCH – Reclaiming the Ineffable
ROBERTO DAVOLIO
PHYSIS GLITCH – Reclaiming the Ineffable was a solo exhibition by Italian artist Roberto Davolio, which I had the pleasure to curate at Novalis Art Design in Hong Kong, supported by the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute. Using the device Hermes, Davolio introduced new algorithms that disrupted the camera’s pre-set ones, generating unexpected visual outcomes and revealing hidden layers of reality. Inspired by Eastern aesthetics, his vibrant, geometric images reinterpreted reality, engaging the senses and intuition. The exhibition encouraged viewers to reconsider how we perceive reality and how technology can be a tool for expanding, rather than distorting, our understanding of it.
SLEEPLESS
RUGGERO FACCHIN
Facchin depicts levitating bodies suspended in an uncanny dimension. They stand as sentinels guarding our mysteries, ambassadors of a new vision, seers foretelling our revolution. Positioned at the threshold between reason and the irrational, between sleep and wakefulness, life and death, they navigate the depths of the unconscious, embracing dreamlike flashes and untamed expressive potential.
REMASK
ENRICO GIROTTI
A magical act to overwrite a memory, to build a new possible dimension, to recall ancient perspectives in order to free ourselves and regenerate ourselves.
HEADS
RUGGERO FACCHIN
Facchin reinterprets the Renaissance humanist Paolo Giovio’s collection of portraits of illustrious men, guiding us through an exploration of identity. His expressive approach brings forth their uniqueness and irreproducibility. The undefined gaze in these portraits alludes to an inner vision, capable of revealing hidden truths.
ICONE
RITMI E RISONANZE DELLA GEOMETRIA (1968-1972)
GIORGIO OLIVIERI
“[…] it is space itself that becomes a body, both positively and negatively. […] Olivieri’s ‘icon’ are not effigies. Rather, they are objectifications of space“. Roberto Sanesi – Traduzione di Federica Viola
CHIEDEvano
ANNALISA MERCURI
This work denounces gender-based violence through twelve prints, each representing a different method by which women have been killed by their loved ones, according to data from ISTAT and CAD Brescia. Created using the Japanese Mokuhanga technique, the prints reproduce real police reports and are then symbolically “killed,” emphasizing the fragility of unheard cries for help. The title plays on the Italian word chiedevano, composed of CHIEDE (she asks for help) and vano (in vain), highlighting how pleas for aid often go tragically unanswered.