Platea | Palazzo Galeano in Lodi inaugurates its exhibition programming on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, with a solo exhibition by Linda Carrara, an artist from Bergamo born in 1984, curated by Gaspare Luigi Marcone. The exhibition, titled Passeggiata (southward), will remain open until March 12. A press preview will be held on Jan. 16 at 12 noon, while the opening is scheduled for 7 p.m. the following day. The works presented by Carrara represent a compendium of her artistic practice, developed during the months of 2025 and culminating in the eponymous triptych made in acrylic on canvas. Growing up on the banks of the Adda River, the artist has made repeated explorations of the river territory, marked by a centuries-old history in cultural, economic and environmental respects. The path between her studio in Villa d’Adda and the city of Lodi, site of the exhibition, constituted a peripatetic process, in which the journey and the pictorial act intertwined, starting from the conviction that art is first and foremost a mental thing.
“Linda Carrara has been reflecting on ’landscape’ for years, and her works can be defined as ’made in collaboration’ with the natural context, in some cases the works are landscape. There is no idea of ’detached’ mimesis, a representation from afar, but the work is completed, having its reason for being, in the landscape and with the landscape,” Marcone explains.
The triptych Passeggiata (southward) draws inspiration from traditional frottage, reinterpreted by the artist: portions of the Adda riverbank are traced with acrylic paints on thin canvases, employing a brush with soft bristles. The shapes, lines and fragments of the river landscape emerge in different registers: the raised portions appear light and blurred, while the deeper portions are shown dark and detailed. The tonalities of the works are determined both by direct observation of the chromatic variations of the context and by atmospheric and natural conditions, with a balance between the artist’s control and the freedom of the pictorial materials.
For Carrara, landscape is not limited to the visual dimension. The work is articulated in a multi-sensory experience that integrates climate, temperatures, colors and seasons. Chosen techniques and materials give the canvases almost cinematic qualities, transforming natural fragments into transfigured visions, sometimes formless and not traceable to a specific real geography. In keeping with Leonardo’s assumption, the resulting surfaces invite the viewer to perceive new images emerging from the chromatic patches.
The exhibition is realized with the contribution of the City of Lodi and has the support of partners such as Ferrari Giovanni Industria Casearia Spa and the Consorzio di Tutela del Grana Padano, with technical support from Solux Led Lighting Technology and Verspieren Broker di Assicurazione, as well as donors Amici di Platea.
Parallel to the Carrara solo show, Platea is offering the citizens the latest episode of the exhibition schedule Nine Out Of Ten Movie Stars Make Me Cry, curated by Gabriella Rebello Kolandra. The event, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 31, and Sunday, Feb. 1, consists of an ephemeral publishing workshop led by artist Marvin Gabriele Nwachukwu, who will transform Broletto Square in Lodi into a temporary newsroom. Walk (southward) thus represents the start of Platea | Palazzo Galeano’s 2026 programming, confirming the Lodi association’s focus on contemporary artistic research and the relationship between landscape, territory and pictorial practice.
Linda Carrara studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and completed a master’s degree at the KASK School in Ghent. Between 2006 and 2012 she was an assistant to Vincenzo Ferrari and, in 2015, to Michaël Borremans. Her works have been exhibited in numerous public spaces and private galleries, including Building Gallery in Milan (2024), Triennale Milano (2023), Cremona Art Week (2023), Public Service Gallery in Stockholm (2023), MAC Lissone (2023), Fondazione ICA in Milan (2022), Centrul de Interes in Cluj-Napoca (2022), Galleria Renata Fabbri in Milan (2022), Palazzo Reale in Milan (2021), Floris-Romer Museum in Hungary (2021), Boccanera Gallery in Trento and Milan (2016 and 2023), Rizzuto Gallery in Palermo and Düsseldorf (2020 and 2024), Iragui Gallery in Moscow (2019) and IIC in Brussels (2018).
In 2014 he received the Terna Prize in the Painting section and participated in several art residencies, including MOMENTUM in Berlin (2015), LKV in Trondheim, Norway (2016), NCCA in St. Petersburg (2017) and Palazzo Monti in Brescia (2020). His work is currently on display at the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen KONKRET in Germany, in the exhibition False Marble and Glowing Stars, curated by Holger Kube Ventura.
In his most recent research, Carrara has moved toward a ’vitalist’ representation of reality, in which material and pictorial action become the focus of the work. In this perspective, images no longer coincide with the things they describe; the very matter of painting is transformed into a field of representational investigation, assuming autonomous value with respect to mere visual reproduction.
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| Walk (southward): Linda Carrara opens the exhibition season of Platea in Lodi |
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