Arcipelaghi visivi
From February 28 to March 29 2025
Fondazione Luciana Matalon
Free Admission
From February 28 to March 29, 2025, the Fondazione Luciana Matalon will host Arcipelaghi Visivi, curated by Sofia Alberti. This exhibition offers a profound reflection on the essence of art in our times: its ability to transform the visible into a question and the invisible into a possibility. The event unfolds through three distinct yet interconnected paths, inviting visitors to explore art as a critical and poetic medium that challenges not only our relationship with the world but also with ourselves.
Promoted by Enciclopedia dell’Arte Italiana, the exhibition juxtaposes the collective Sguardi d’Autore 2025 – eleven voices of contemporaneity in dialogue with solo exhibitions by Nicol Ferrari and Roberto Fiasella. Together, these components create a horizon for dialogue that is both intimate and universal.
In today’s world, saturated with images, we are surrounded, invaded, and absorbed by visual stimuli. Yet, how much of what we see do we truly observe? In this context, art serves as both a bulwark and a challenge. It does not settle for being seen but compels us to look—encouraging us to pause, recognize, and question what we see and, more importantly, what we do not see. Visual Archipelagos is a shared reflection on the role of perception as a creative act. As philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Rochefort, 1908 – Paris, 1961) reminds us, seeing is never a passive process but an experience interwoven with body, thought, and memory.In the first collective exhibition, Sguardi d’Autore 2025—open from February 28 to March 7—the featured artists explore the act of looking as a threshold between the world and the self. This threshold becomes a place where the past resurfaces, the present is redefined, and the future is envisioned.
Giorgio Carluccio and Roberta Bissoli investigate memory as a trace, a stratification that endures and transforms over time. While Carluccio takes a universal and archaeological approach, Bissoli’s work is more intimate, evoking a suspended sense of time where every surface becomes a gateway to a lost yet ever-present world. Laura Casini and Drago Alberto Cerchiari reflect on the contrasts between light and shadow, matter and absence. Their art transcends aesthetics, probing the paradox of what is visible and concealed. Elisa Macaluso and Peter Seeling delve into the inner dimension, conveying sensations through color, form, and texture.
Carla Colombo Sala explores the delicacy of emotion through her use of color and matter, transforming each work into a narrative that is both intimate and universal. Enza De Paolis and Claudio Detto focus on symbolism and the use of materials, creating pieces that invite sensitive and reflective interpretations. Jucci Ugolotti and Marco A. Vignati offer a fragmented and poetic vision, where every detail contributes to a visual narrative that challenges linearity, giving shape to the ineffable. Throughout these works, memory, matter, and color are not merely representations but ongoing reinterpretations of the world suspended between past and present.
The individual exhibitions of Nicol Ferrari and Roberto Fiasella—open respectively from March 8 to 18 and from March 21 to 29—add complementary perspectives to this extensive narrative. Ferrari examines the relationship between the individual and the urban landscape, transforming the chaos of contemporary life into paintings vibrant with emotion and color. His canvases are not just depictions but spaces where urban frenzy is suspended, revealing an intimate vision of the city—a stage of emotions where movement becomes a sign. Fiasella, in contrast, sculpts emptiness, creating a dialogue between fullness and absence that defines the core of his research. His sculptures, objects in relation to space, reflect on memory as a dynamic force and form as an open language. His sculptural language invites reflection on impermanence and the evocative power of form.
What is art if not a space where the invisible becomes tangible? Arcipelagi visivi goes beyond celebrating beauty, questioning the very meaning of art-making today. In an age where everything seems already said, seen, and shared, what room remains for the new, the unspoken, the elusive?
The presentation of the new volume of Enciclopedia dell’Arte Italiana—scheduled for Friday, February 28, at 6:00 PM—fits into this context as a living archive capable of linking past and present in an open dialogue about the future of art and culture. A testament to knowledge, each work becomes a fragment of a broader discourse, a piece of a mosaic that urges us to ask questions about art, memory, and our own ability to imagine and interpret the world. An experience that goes beyond the visible to restore the lost sense of vision.
Info and Contacts
Fondazione Luciana Matalon
+39 02 878781
[email protected]
www.fondazionematalon.org
