A major installation unfolding in multiple temporary configurations, with artworks cyclically emerging and eclipsing

As I archive the press materials from Fujiko Nakaya’s latest exhibition, I pause on the practical information section of the Neue Nationalgalerie’s website. Among the warnings directed at visitors, one sentence stands out: “Enter the sculpture garden at your own risk.” A sign with a Dantean aftertaste conveys a state of alarm, quite atypical for an audience seeking tranquil gratification.

The emblematic core of his research: the Plissé series, in which the fold functions as a unit of meaning, repeated according to a rhythm that allows for no accidental variations

There is a moment, standing before Nando Stevoli’s canvases, when the gaze stops searching for an image and begins to measure a rhythm. The Plissé works, the emblematic core of his research, exist as a system: a visual syntax where the fold functions as the minimal unit of meaning, repeated according to a rhythm that allows for no accidental variations.

An exhibition unfolding across multiple pathways: from Piazza del Duomo to the Cloister of Sant’Agostino and the Tonfano Pier

“I have always felt the desire to deconstruct the space around me and then reconstruct it through imagination”. The Colombian sculptor Gustavo Vélez - born in Medellín in 1975 and having arrived in Pietrasanta in 1996 - extracts geometric shapes particularly from marble and bronze, transforming them into emotions and unexpected sinuosities.

Summer, desire for sea, sun, relax and for who can - often for who couldn’t too - for new lovers. Don’t you know how to find them? Try with an invitation to a museum. Word of Semir Zeki, Professor of Neurophysiology at the London University College and founder of the Institute of Neuroaesthetics at the University of California in Berkeley. A group of volunteers was asked to observe 28 paintings including Monet’s Bathers at La Grenouillère and Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral.