From Sept. 25 to Dec. 15, 2025, Trento ’s Studio d’Arte Raffaelli is hosting a double solo exhibition by Silas and Angus Borsos, entitled Broadway Dreams and the Vancouver Void. For the two Canadian brothers, this is the first time together in Italy. The exhibition offers a dialogue between painting and photography, interweaving two artistic experiences that take shape from different places, but united by a common family and cultural bond. The works of Silas Borsos, a painter born in Toronto in 1989 and now living in Brooklyn, are characterized by small formats and brushstrokes that recall impressionism, capable of revealing details only at a close look. The theater represents the recurring theme of his research, defined by the artist as a “magical and almost sacred box where everything becomes possible.”
The exhibition includes a dozen paintings dedicated to stages, stalls and actors, alongside works depicting film scenes and glimpses of the New York subway, an environment that has long been a source of inspiration. Alongside the paintings, Silas presents a focus on drawing with his most ambitious work: a large, full-wall installation on paper that transforms the gallery into a visual theater. Completing the section are a number of smaller works on paper that reveal a different approach to image construction.
In counterpoint to the atmospheres associated with Broadway, the section devoted to Angus Borsos focuses on the city of Vancouver. Born in Toronto in 1986, Angus is the son of filmmaker Phillip Borsos, and from a very young age he approached the world of filmmaking, beginning work in the industry when he was only fifteen years old. After directing more than twenty music videos, collaborating with artists such as Mac DeMarco, Julia Holter, Nite Jewel and Sean Nicholas Savage, he embarked on his own path in the field of photography. The works presented in Trento, made with black-and-white analog technique, depict landscapes and everyday scenes of the Canadian metropolis.
The ten photographs in the exhibition are all one-shot and aim to return not only urban glimpses but also the existential dimension of living in Vancouver, a city narrated by the artist as a space of absence and suspension. The choice to exhibit the two brothers together opens a confrontation between two geographies, that of New York and that of Vancouver, and two visual languages. Painting and photography, thus placed side by side, reveal mutual possibilities and limits, becoming complementary tools of investigation. In the background is also family memory: Silas and Angus ideally return to the footsteps of their ancestor József Borsos, a Hungarian painter and photographer known in 19th-century Austro-Hungarian court circles.
The exhibition opens Thursday, Sept. 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the presence of the artists. It will be accompanied by a catalog edited by Virginia Raffaelli, with critical contributions by Camilla Nacci Zanetti and artist Gian Marco Montesano, who has dedicated part of his own career to the relationship between painting and theater.
Silas Borsos’ path is marked by a multifaceted education: after studying painting at the Art Students League, he pursued philosophy and theology at Concordia University in Montreal. He completed the Certificate Program at the New York Studio School in 2018, where he went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting in 2020. In recent years he exhibited in several New York galleries, with solo shows in 2023 and 2024, before coming to Trento with the project he shared with his brother.
Angus, in parallel, has pursued a path in the visual world that has seen him alternate between directing and photography. The choice to offer a series of unpublished shots in Trento is a significant step in his career, marking his debut in Italy and an opportunity to show work that focuses on the urban landscape of the city where he now lives and works.
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