Le catarsi imperiture dell’artista Alessandro Piangiamore in mostra a Lugano. La recensione
Italian artist Alessandro Piangiamore (born 1976 in Enna) presents his latest solo exhibition, "La polvere ci mostra che la luce esiste" (Dust Shows Us That Light Exists), at Galleria Repetto in Lugano. The show features works from several ongoing series, including a triangular expanse of volcanic ash from Mount Etna, glass sculptures preserving fragrant essences, funereal floral compositions in cement, ink prints of bird feathers, and a rainbow-inspired installation. The exhibition is inspired by a 2011 essay by French aesthetician Georges Didi-Huberman on suspended dust.
The exhibition marks a culmination of Piangiamore's decades-long exploration of the ideal dimensions of matter, situating him within the Italian metaphysical tradition that extends beyond De Chirico to include artists like Fontana, Manzoni, De Dominicis, Paolini, and Cattelan, as well as Arte Povera masters. By blending metaphysical inspiration with renewed experimentation, the show demonstrates Piangiamore's artistic maturity and his contribution to a distinctly Italian poetic sensibility that transcends referential data toward indefinite, transcendent outcomes.