From July 16 to September 14, 2025, the city of Milan presents a widespread exhibition dedicated to Remo Salvadori, spread over three venues: Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento and the Church of San Gottardo in Corte. This is the largest exhibition ever held on the Tuscan artist, born in Cerreto Guidi in 1947, who is among the protagonists of the contemporary Italian scene. The project is promoted by the City of Milan - Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale and Eight Art Project, in collaboration with Museo del Novecento and Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture. It is curated by Elena Tettamanti and Antonella Soldaini.
“The exhibition project was created by focusing on the representative thematic nuclei of Remo Salvadori’s work,” notes curator Elena Tettamanti. “The works with which the artist expresses his universe - outside of any contingent and temporal reference - allow the visitor to enter into a relationship with Salvadori. An invitation to become a participatory figure of the event, ’in the moment’ of its making within a space that is an ideal extension of his studio.”
“As if one were going through a sequence of ’rooms’ that inhabit the artist’s thought,” comments curator Antonella Soldaini, “the visitor, in addition to experiencing a greater knowledge of his own sensibility, when brought into contact with the works, will have the possibility in this exhibition occasion, to be involved in a dialogue between self and other, in a reciprocity from which develops a new way of seeing the existing and from which new ways of relating come to life.”
Admission to the Palazzo Reale and the Museo del Novecento is free, while a Duomo Museum ticket is required to access the section set up in the Church of San Gottardo. The exhibition itinerary develops in several chapters, also including two musical appointments entrusted to composer Sandro Mussida: on July 15, during the opening, and on September 9, with a performance inspired by Salvadori’s poetic universe. On the same day, the exhibition catalog, consisting of two volumes published by Silvana Editoriale, will be presented. The exhibition on the second floor of the Royal Palace brings together fifty-nine works and is distinguished by a non-chronological layout, designed to generate an interaction between works, exhibition space and the visitor’s presence. The itinerary aims to restore the sense of the moment as a living time, central to the artist’s poetics, through an installation that puts historical installations and site-specific interventions in dialogue.
Prominent among the works on display is Continuo Infinito Presente (1985, reissued 2007), a circle made of interwoven steel cables that occupies the Hall of Ministers. In the Throne Room is No’ si volta chi a stella è fisso (2004, 2025), previously anticipated in the Sala delle Cariatidi. The work, made of polished metal, changes depending on the environment in which it is housed. In the same direction moves Germoglio, presented in four wall-mounted versions, from 1988 to 2017, along with the sculpture Liquid Lens (1998, 2024), four glass containers with water surmounted by a copper and gold leaf circle. In the Moment (1974, 2025) is placed on the jamb of a window, visible both from inside and outside the Royal Palace. In the Hall of Mirrors are several versions of Verticale, a copper cylinder that serves as a support for objects of heterogeneous materials. In the same area emerges Amphora and Model (1982, 2025), a plaster sculpture surrounded by metal circles, recalling the iconography of St. Christopher.
An entire room is dedicated to Stanza delle tazze (1986), exhibited for the first time in Amsterdam and composed of cups obtained by superimposing circles and ellipses. The concept of observation is explored through the series L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato, iron and gold easel-like installations that reflect on the relationship between gaze and object. Tazza nel momento (1995, 2004) and several versions of Nel momento (1974), including one from 2007 composed of 111 lead elements, also find a place here. Two watercolors Ecce homo (1985) introduce the copper work of the same name. The last section of the path hosts the first version of Continuo Infinito Presente (1985), 22 centimeters in diameter, flanked by Stella (2017), a glass and copper table that the public is invited to use. Closing the section is the work Alphabet (2013, 2016), seven elements in different metals that allude to a symbolic language, along with Triad (1989), a bronze and copper composition based on the triadic form.
At the Museo del Novecento from July 2, 2025, two works complete the exhibition: Alveare (1996, 2024), a sequence of copper rods along the wall of the access ramp, and Nel momento (1974, 2025), an installation that insists on the skylight by the archives area.
A further chapter opens in the church of St. Gotthard in the Court from July 18 to August 31, 2025, where 10 Arrows in the Colors of Minerals (1969-1970), first exhibited in 1970 and later at the 1973 Paris Biennale, is placed in dialogue with a Giottesque fresco. Related to this, Stella (2025), made for the occasion, invokes a cosmological dimension, amplifying the contemplative function of space.
The catalog, published by Silvana Editoriale, that accompanies the exhibition is divided into two volumes. The first collects a conversation between the curators and the artist, as well as 34 contributions entrusted to scholars from different disciplines, from art to philosophy, who have been assigned headwords that make up the artist’s conceptual universe. The second volume is a leporello photographically documenting all the works and related events. The exhibition is part of the program of theMilan Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympiad, a multidisciplinary initiative that anticipates the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, placing art and sports in dialogue with the aim of promoting common values and bringing younger generations closer to culture.
The graphic identity of the entire project is curated by Leftloft studio. The event is supported by Cristalfarma, Aon, Fondazione Guido Venosta, Pellini Milano, C-Zone and Pecci, with technical support from Urban Vision and NEMO Group. Insurance support is provided by REVO Insurance S.p.A.
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