Nuova Galleria Morone

Giovanni Blanco was born in Ragusa in 1980. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He lives and works in Modica. Each of Giovanni Blanco’s exhibition projects is always generated by a direct experience with reality, giving shape to a thematic framework. The subjects of his works are linked together like parts of a poetic imagination conceived in narrative cycles, where every single image is envisioned as a fragment of a broader discourse. He experiences painting as a means and never as an end. For him, the canvas is an open device, a bearer of crossings and expansions, through which he seeks to organize the thoughts that convey the plurality of his gaze.

Silvia Celeste Calcagno (Genoa, 1974) lives and works in Albissola (Savona). After studying at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa, she began working on ceramic material, experimenting with new technical-expressive possibilities and identifying new ways of intervening on the medium with non-traditional techniques. In 2015, she is the first Italian woman to win the 59th edition of the Faenza Prize.

Marco Cordero (Roccavione, Cuneo, 1969) physically and materially engages with the written word, which he carves and engraves to reveal its intrinsic form. His works elevate books as aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual objects. His sculptural practice uses diverse materials such as steel, marble, wood, and even organic elements like apples, often resulting in poetic reflections on memory and matter. Cordero’s installations, like the Tabula Rasa series, critically explore the preservation and loss of knowledge through material transformations, questioning whether excessive conservation may lead to inaccessibility. His work merges conceptual inquiry with an intimate engagement with history, territory, and collective memory.

Linda Ferrari - Drunkenrabbit (1986, Brescia, Italy) lives and works in Milan. The name is a pseudonym for Linda Ferrari. Her artistic research is inspired by literature: since she was a child her grandmother used to tell her versos of l’Iliade, l’Odissea, Wilde, Andersen. Embroidery Hearts is an emotional journey through threads, seen as blood vessels leading to the beating heart of each of us, the core of all matters: honouring time, memories and the wonderful fragility that makes us human beings. A thread that binds time and space. A thread that, like a clock, marks duration and quantity. The titles, indeed, refer to the amount of metres spent for the realisation of the artwork (i.e. '9.5 metres of love', '2 metres of love'). With these works the artist analyses various aspects of daily life, a repetitive gesture that takes her mind off daily thoughts, an ancient gesture that will be lost in time. The ancestral nature of sewing, linked to the poetics of myth: from Penelope who during the night unravels the cloth she had made during the day, to her great- grandmother who at sunset unraveled the collar of the only dress she had and sewed on a different one to give the impression of having a new one.

Domenico Grenci was born in Ardore (Italy) in 1981. He lives and works in Bologna. Domenico Grenci's painting throws us toward the urgency of an intimist dialogue, exploring the sense of incompleteness of the existential condition in relation to the origin of all things: nature in relation to the human. In recent years, alongside his more established research on the female face, he also focuses on natural elements such as flowers and plants but also on objects and visions that trigger a profound dialogue by giving us back a residual pluralism, shadows or existences that scrutinize that loneliness that emerges every day from a network of immaterial and changing images of the world.

Alessandro Saturno (Naples, 1983) lives and works in Bologna. His recent research draws on the lessons of the past and redirects his focus toward a vision of the Landscape-as-world. His painting dissolves into the natural dimension, and through gesture and color, forms, movements, and transformations come to life again. The elements of the landscape are explored through observation and memory, like a journey resurfacing in the pictorial act. Thus, Nature becomes a threshold, an opening onto a world that is at once concrete and ideal, that turns into culture and into dream.