Galleria Giovanni Bonelli in Milan opens on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. the collective exhibition Comune decoro, the second stage of the Bonus project, an initiative aimed at monitoring and narrating artistic research arising in the Italian Academies of Fine Arts. The exhibition, curated by Gaetano Centrone will remain open until January 31, 2026, with visits by appointment. Bonus stems from the gallery’s intention to offer students selected by their professors an important exhibition opportunity. The formula calls for each faculty member to select one of their students to highlight their research and artistic language. For Common Decor, three lecturers and three students from the School of Decoration of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, an institution where the curator himself teaches, are the protagonists.
Among the works on display is Daniele Galliano’s Il sogno arabo che ami tu ( 2025), a large-format canvas that confirms the path of a leading artist in contemporary Italian painting. The work appears almost divided into two overlapping scenes: in the upper part palm trees are outlined suspended against a background of sky, while in the lower part a female figure emerges lying on a layered landscape of images. In a dialogue with Galliano, Yubo Zhang(Liaoning, China, 2001) and Yuxin Pei (Jilin, China, 2000) offer Untitled (2025), made by four hands, an experiment that investigates how to give pictoriality to images generated by artificial intelligence, in which indefinite and constantly changing forms reject pre-established patterns.
Paolo Grassino’s sculpture, Grumo (2016), occupies a prominent space in the exhibition. The interwoven masses evoke human anatomies and primordial structures, such as roots or organisms in transformation, generating an ambiguous and pulsating presence, where the material itself seems to hold and release energy. Compared with Grassino, Elia Nardin (Conegliano, 2001) presents Vibrazione Digitale 11, a work that explores the encounter between digital and cosmic space, using chromatic signs derived from the RGB code as a reflection of contemporary digital reality.
Domenico Borrelli offers four marble sculptures from 2025: The Face of God, In Listening, Behind the Senses and Ritro-vate, the result of his investigation of the human body as a place of memory and spirituality. Working through subtraction and fragment, the artist avoids the perfection of mechanical finishing, transforming the material into a space that reveals absence. The viewer is invited to a meditative confrontation with the work, where the search for the infinite is manifested through a sincere and imperfect human act. In dialogue with Borrelli, Yiwen Zheng (Nanjing, China, 2000) exhibits Tempo dell’Attimo, in which the interweaving of matter and ride plates generate a unique device in which gesture, sound and movement combine in a perceptual language that connects past and future. Common Decorum confirms Giovanni Bonelli Gallery’s desire to observe emerging trends and to offer students from the Academies a space for concrete visibility, stimulating dialogue between different artistic generations and different contemporary languages. The exhibition offers an articulated panorama, ranging from painting to sculpture to digital languages, highlighting creative paths that will characterize the future art scene.
Daniele Galliano (Pinerolo, 1961), active in Turin, emerged on the city’s art scene in the early 1990s. In 1996 he presented his first solo shows at the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York and the Galleria Nazionale in Rome. His path, open to multiple languages, led him to exhibit in venues such as Livingstone Gallery in the Netherlands (2006, 2013, 2021), the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City (2018), Galleria In Arco in Turin (2017), GAM in Turin (2013), Esso Gallery in New York (2008) and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India (2016). Group shows in which he has participated include the Italian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), the 9th La Habana Biennale (2006), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2014), Centro Pecci in Prato (2005), MART in Rovereto (2013) and Parkview Museum in Singapore (2020).
Paolo Grassino (Turin, 1967), who is active in his hometown, achieved his first institutional recognition in 2000, when the GAM in Turin dedicated a solo exhibition to him. In 2005 he made Armilla, a large installation on the facade of the Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, while in 2008 he exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole at the invitation of Lóránd Hegyi. His most important solo shows include those at MACRO in Rome (2011), the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid (2013), Casa Fiat de Cultura in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2017), and Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana in Turin, Italy (2019). He has also participated in exhibitions such as the XV Quadriennale d’Arte in Rome (2008), the Fourth Moscow Biennale (2011), shows at the Frost Art Museum in Miami (2011), Loft Project ETAGI in St. Petersburg (2011), the triennial Beaufort 04 in Ostend (2012), and Disturbing Narrative at the Parkview Museum in Singapore (2019). His works are part of international collections, including those of the Parkview Museum in its Beijing and Singapore locations.
Domenico Borrelli (Turin, 1968), who is active in his hometown, soon gained significant recognition, including the Second Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition at The Hakone Open-Air Museum in Tokyo in 1988 and the prize for sculpture at the III Biennale Giovane Arte Contemporanea in Sartirana Lomellina in 1995. His works enter permanent collections such as the Milevsko Museum in the Czech Republic, the Garuzzo Foundation in Saluzzo, the ETAGI Loft Project in St. Petersburg, and the Quarelli-Roccaverano Art Park.
His most relevant solo shows are held at Studio Arte Recalcati in Turin (1998), at U SCÈM in Parma (2001), at Studio Vigato in Alessandria with No Entry (2006), at Castello di Rivara with Abitarsi (2014) and at Zaion Gallery in Biella with Memore (2017). Group shows include Nature and Metamorphosis in Beijing and Shanghai, Beyond the Boundaries of the Body at Fabrika Projekt in Moscow, Art Jungle at Giardini della Reggia di Venaria Reale, Genius Loci ’05 and Art Site Residenze Reali at Castello di Racconigi, and Arte alle Corti at Palazzo Cisterna, Turin.
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