Painting and performance are one in Marta Dell’Angelo’s exhibition in Milan

Marta Dell’Angelo presents her solo exhibition "Matrici" at Assab One in Milan, a non-profit space founded by Elena Quarestani. The show features Dell’Angelo's performative paintings that focus on hands, arms, and limbs—depicted in gestures of grasping, intertwining, and clinging—alongside a public text work by Luca Pancrazzi installed on the building's roof. The exhibition, curated by Marina Dacci, continues the artist's long-standing relationship with the venue, which previously hosted her 2019 retrospective "Afrodite A" and site-specific works like "La fermata" (2018).

The exhibition matters because it exemplifies how contemporary painting can merge with performance and architecture, transforming the viewer's experience into an embodied encounter. Dell’Angelo's work blurs the boundary between observer and artwork, inviting audiences to physically and emotionally enter the painted scenes. The show also highlights Assab One's unique identity as a hybrid space—part home, part public square—that constantly reinvents itself through successive exhibitions, concerts, and conferences, reinforcing the role of non-profit organizations in fostering experimental art practices.