Crossover

Crossover
curated by Graziano Menolascina

Conceived as the ideal continuation to the project presented at Art Basel 2025, Crossover transforms the gallery into a living space where past and present, memories and geographies, media and meaning meet. The title itself evokes a concept dear to both cultural theory and pop culture: a crossover is the intersection of narratives, the encounter of separate worlds that generates something new, unexpected, and potentially revealing.

At the heart of the exhibition is Andy Warhol's Vesuvius (1985): with its explosive and vibrant colors, the work embodies the paradox of a city in perpetual balance between sublimity and chaos. This is Warhol at his most painterly and prophetic: a powerful image in which death and destruction are mirrored in the life of colour and the primordial energy of the volcano.

Surrounding Warhol are works that, in different ways, amplify and refract the theme of the volcano as symbol, threshold, wound, and rebirth. Antonio Biasiucci's black-and-white photographs restore the volcano theme to an archaic and ritualistic dimension, evoking an archaeology of fire: the crater as a sacred body, as origin and living scar.

With Dark Shuffle, Rashid Johnson introduces elements of rituality and fracture into the space: between savon noir, wax, and a textured painting, the work layers personal and collective memories in a dense, symbolic abstraction, charged with tension and possibility.

Similarly, the cements in Alessandro Piangiamore's Ieri Ikebana series oscillate between vital beauty and twilight traces: what we see is, in fact, an outline, a fossilized echo of life. A memory as eternal as it is marked by disappearance. The exhibition space thus becomes a place of convergence and tension, where myth and memory, gesture and ideology, surface and intensity merge.

This layered energy resonates in the poetic investigations of Anselm Kiefer, capable of holding ruin and vision. The dialogue is completed by works by Elisabetta Benassi, Alighiero Boetti, Dadamaino, Ala d’Amico, Maurizio Nannucci, Francesca Leone, Pino Pascali and Mario Schifano: artists who, each in their own way, traverse different geographies and temporalities, presenting the viewer with a constellation of visions.