Milan ’s Galleria A arte Invernizzi opened on May 22, 2025 a solo exhibition dedicated to Francesco Candeloro (Venice, 1974), known for his work that explores time and light through a language of transparencies, superimpositions and chromatic variations. The exhibition, which features never-before-seen works created especially for the occasion, can be visited until July 17, 2025 and is spread over two levels of the gallery, offering the public a reflective experience on the changing visual and temporal perception.
Since the first decade of the 2000s, Francesco Candeloro has built an artistic research based on a continuous play between concealment and revelation. His works exploit the evanescent nature of colors that change under the action of natural or artificial light, generating vibrant and changing surfaces. Light, in fact, becomes the protagonist of his installations, catalyzing energy and projecting, on the walls and in interior spaces, the perception of time passing. On the upper floor of the gallery, the exhibition focuses on a recent project entitled Peaks in Time (2025), conceived as a single installation that extends both along the wall and in the center of the room. The metal structure supporting the Plexiglas profiles creates an environment suspended in space, where the transparency and overlapping of materials invite visitors to engage physically and mentally. The audience is called to traverse and interact with the volumes and surfaces, thus perceiving the mutability of the vision and the instability of the instant in which the work manifests itself.
In this dimension, Candeloro translates the concept of time into a space that is both real and symbolic, constructed without recourse to technological supports but solely through the potential of light and its interactions with the chosen materials. The installation thus configures a narrative that unfolds through transparencies, duplications and inversions, suggesting a constant dialogue between presence and absence, visible and invisible. The lower floor, on the other hand, hosts another series of works that continue to develop the themes of transparency and representation of space. Here, pages of supposed “books” unfold on the wall following strict geometric and combinatorial structures. The method adopted by the artist becomes a veritable system for measuring and scanning space, through an “alphabet of the mind” made of slits, acetate filters and overlays. The slits created in the paired sheets, combined with the filters, make it possible to project the outside to the inside and vice versa, establishing a dynamic relationship between real and perceived space.
The works dialogue with a series of city skylines made of Plexiglas, consisting of sheets of different colors and composed of overlapping specular pairs. The urban silhouettes recall places that belong to Candeloro’s personal memory and reflect his direct experience, reworked through his artistic vision. In this way, the artist reworks architectural and landscape elements to transform them into a new reading of space, filtered through the transparency and layering of materials. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will publish a bilingual catalog that will include a critical text by Giorgio Verzotti, reproductions of the works on display and an updated bio-bibliographical apparatus. The publication will offer an in-depth look at Candeloro’s work, contextualizing it within his research and providing tools for a more articulate reading of his production.
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| Francesco Candeloro at Galleria A arte Invernizzi in Milan with new works and installations |
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