From Dec. 6, 2025 to Jan. 6, 2026, Palazzo da Mosto, in Reggio Emilia, hosts Jardin Planétaire, the solo exhibition of Nazzarena Poli Maramotti (Montecchio Emilia, 1987). The exhibition, curated by Silvia Bottani, takes place in the 15th-century rooms on the ground floor of the palace and offers an itinerary among canvases, ceramics, papers and objets trouvés (found objects), offering a broad and articulate overview of the artist’s work. The exhibition aims to restore to the public the complexity and vitality of Poli Maramotti’s pictorial research, focused on the theme of landscape and the transformation of visual materials through time.
The exhibition highlights how the artist dialogues with the history of modern art, while regenerating the genre through a personal archive consisting of photographs, clippings, papers and various materials. From this collection takes shape a painting that gradually moves away from figuration, approaching informal without completely abandoning recognizable representation. The works on display highlight dense and gestural brushstrokes, vibrant colors and a textural grid capable of breaking the two-dimensionality of the pictorial surface, restoring a new vital energy to the landscape. The concept of error and randomness plays a central role in Poli Maramotti’s practice, understood as fundamental tools for the creative process. Error is considered a transformative step, a possibility that generates unexpected visual and conceptual connections.
In this sense, the title of the exhibition, Jardin Planétaire, reflects the artist’s approach: recognizing herself in the role of planetary gardener, Poli Maramotti negotiates the relationship between herself and her surroundings, accepting unpredictability and variation as essential elements of life. The garden becomes a metaphor for a dynamic balance, in which the uncultivated represents the most vital space, capable of hosting biodiversity and continuous transformation. The works in the exhibition, mostly unpublished, testify to the expressive freedom with which the artist approaches painting, moving between different media, canvas, board, paper and ceramics, in a continuous dialogue between matter and color. The body of work returns a vision of the landscape as a constantly changing space, in which attention to the unexpected and variation becomes a tool for observation and reflection.
Nazzarena Poli Maramotti lives and works in Cavriago, in the province of Reggio Emilia. She completed her training in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and continued her studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg, where she was Meisterschülerin of professors Ralph Fleck and Susanne Kühn. Among the awards she has received are the Mediolanum Prize for Painting, the Debütantenförderung der Bayerischen Staatsregierung and the Euromobil under 30 award. The artist’s works have been exhibited in numerous Italian and international institutions, including Triennale in Milan, Palazzo Reale in Milan, Palazzo del Governatore in Parma, Antico Mercato in Syracuse, Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna, MAC in Lissone, Morat Institut in Freiburg im Breisgau, Neues Museum in Nuremberg, Kunstverein Nürnberg and Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft in Nuremberg.
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