Paolo Scheggi at MA*GA in Gallarate, an exhibition on the artist's environments.

From May 24 to October 11, 2026, the MA*GA Museum in Gallarate (Varese) presents Here and Elsewhere. The Environments of Paolo Scheggi 1964 - 1971, an exhibition dedicated to Paolo Scheggi, a central figure in the experimental artistic research of the 1960s. The exhibition project, curated by Ilaria Bignotti and Emma Zanella, with curatorial assistance from Camilla Remondina, addresses a specific aspect of the Tuscan artist’s production: the plastic and walkable environments conceived between 1964 and 1971, the year of his untimely death.

The exhibition was created in collaboration with thePaolo Scheggi Association, from which the works and documentary materials on display come, including literary and iconographic documents related to the artist’s research. The initiative is supported by the PAC - Plan for Contemporary Art 2025, promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, and accompanies the entry of Struttura modular from 1967 into the permanent collections of the Gallaratese museum.

The exhibition focuses on Scheggi’s reflection around the relationship between space, perception and architecture, a theme developed through environments conceived as physical and sensory experiences. In the course of his activity, the artist in fact elaborated a research that is in the groove of the experiments following Spatialism, contributing to the development of a monochromatic and object-based painting that went beyond the traditional limits of the painting to extend into real space.

According to the curatorial project, the conception of space developed by Scheggi is linked to a reflection on time understood as a place of perceptual and symbolic experimentation. Indeed, archetypal references and tensions toward the future coexist in his research, elements that contribute to the construction of a language defined by the exhibition as mythical-political. The exhibition takes place simultaneously with another initiative dedicated to Vincenzo Agnetti, also proposed by the Lombard museum. The parallelism between the two projects aims to explore some of the main lines of research developed in Italian art of the second half of the 20th century, relating different modes of linguistic and spatial experimentation.

Paolo Scheggi at MA*GA in Gallarate, an exhibition on the artist's environments.

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