From July 13 to Nov. 16, 2025, the Civic Museum of Noto, in theformer Convent of Santa Chiara, will host Andrea Chisesi ’s new solo exhibition entitled Homage to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, curated by Martina Mazzotta, promoted and sponsored by the Culture Department of the Municipality of Noto. In a hyperconnected and hyperfluid world dominated by speed and technology, Chisesi chooses to reread the ancient to look at the present from different perspectives.
On display will be a body of unpublished works that dialogue with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a fundamental text of classical culture that the Latin poet composed between 2 and 8 AD. Andrea Chisesi’s homage to the Metamorphoses unfolds in a cycle of works, “metamorphoses within metamorphoses” that become ongoing sources of wonder and amazement.
To this cycle, Chisesi has come to recognize that many of his recent fusions (some, however, date back as far as a decade) take up works of sculpture and painting from different historical periods whose iconography can be traced back to the poem. Topical scenes from more or less famous myths take shape on canvas, transforming into layered visions made of brushstrokes, dripping, overlapping, sticking, and tearing that evoke remote and at the same time current worlds. Chisesi looks at Ovid as the ’newest’ among the classics in the global culture of the new millennium and still a protagonist in contemporary art.
The exhibition is divided into several sections, and the tributes to art history are divided into two major strands: painting and sculpture. The works, created using the fusion technique, alternate between painting, analog and digital photography, collage and grattage.
Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog published by Moebius Editore that includes all the works on display, the curator’s critical essay, as well as photographs and insights into Chisesi’s work and his relationship with myth.
The exhibition can be visited daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m.
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| In Noto, Andrea Chisesi's new solo exhibition pays homage to Ovid's Metamorphoses |
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