Event Archives

From June 18 to 20, Foscarini awaits you at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, set in the evocative location of Alice Folker Gallery (Esplanaden 14). An opportunity to explore the new products unveiled at Euroluce, an artistic installation by Bennet Pimpinella, and moments of dialogue and inspiration.

Where to find us

New Collections

On display at 3daysofdesign is the project dedicated to the archetype of the chandelier, reinterpreted in a contemporary key. The protagonists of this formal exploration are ASTERIA, designed by Alberto and Francesco Meda, ALLUMETTE and TILIA by Francesca Lanzavecchia, and ÈTOILE, signed by Dordoni Studio: four visions that blend aesthetic research, technical innovation, and the poetry of light.

Alongside these, Foscarini continues its material experimentation with EOLIE, a pioneering project that uses recycled lava stone to create lamps with a strong material character, and the new wall version of APLOMB, which reinterprets the iconic concrete model with a sober and essential presence.

Events to Inspire

June 18 – 19 | 4:30–5:30 PM
Aperitivo with the Artist
Discover the visual world of Bennet Pimpinella, creator of the video installation that blends scratched analog film with Foscarini’s light, creating an immersive experience suspended between the digital and physical realms.

June 20 | 10:30–11:30 AM
The Art of Enlightenment
A morning talk dedicated to reinterpreting a timeless classic: the chandelier. With Matteo Urbinati (Design Coordinator & Marketing Director at Foscarini) and Bruun Rasmussen, reflecting on how light can evolve between memory and innovation.

REFLECTIONS by Foscarini
at Alice Folker Gallery

Esplanaden 14
Copenhagen – Denmark
18–20 JUNE 2025
H.10–18

Double event with Foscarini at Milan Design Week 2025: join us at Euroluce, Fiera Milano, and explore our showroom Foscarini Spazio Monforte.

From April 8 to 13, 2025, Foscarini returns to Milan Design Week with a dual presence at Euroluce in Fiera Milano Rho (HALL 4, BOOTH C03 – C05) and at the Fuorisalone in our Spazio Monforte showroom. Two complementary experiences, curated by Ferruccio Laviani, that explore lighting innovation in different ways through creative installations and new lamp designs, the result of collaborations with various designers—some already part of our journey, others working with Foscarini for the first time.

Our Spazio Monforte showroom will host “CAOS PERFETTO – Scratched Stories of Light”, a site-specific installation by artist Bennet Pimpinella, alongside an exhibition dedicated to the editorial project “What’s in a lamp?”. This initiative invites international artists and content creators to reinterpret, in their unique styles, the thoughts, sensations, and emotions evoked by Foscarini’s lamps.

Register here to visit CAOS PERFETTO – Scratched Stories of Light, the What’s in a lamp? exhibition, and get a first look at our new lamps.

Join us at Bloomingdale’s for an immersive celebration of Italian design and craftsmanship, curated by Ferruccio Laviani. The event highlights iconic pieces, including Foscarini’s renowned Orbital lamp, showcasing the best of Italian design.

Discover Orbital lamp

From September 5 to 29, 2024, Bloomingdale’s in New York City will host a special exhibition dedicated to Italian design, in collaboration with Salone del Mobile.Milano, the world-renowned design fair, bringing a unique celebration of Italian creativity and craftsmanship to the heart of the Big Apple. The centerpiece of this event is an immersive exhibition titled “Italian Design: from Classic to Contemporary,” curated by the architect Ferruccio Laviani.

Inspired by the metaphysical squares of Giorgio de Chirico, the Italian painter known for his enigmatic, dream-like cityscapes characterized by eerie shadows and classical architecture, the exhibition creates a fantastical setting where classic design meets contemporary innovation. Laviani’s design for the space masterfully blends elements of art installation and pop-up experience, using light and unexpected object placements to create a surprising and evocative atmosphere.

“I added a contemporary and radical touch to the graphic language of the set. By merging influences from the 1960s radical design movement with the metaphysical elements of De Chirico, we’ve crafted a space that is both distinctive and modern. I selected the design objects to be displayed, such as the Orbital lamp, from the catalogs of the most representative Made in Italy brands – pieces which have become icons of everyday life, are therefore worthy of being displayed as works of art.”

FERRUCCIO LAVIANI
/ Designer

In addition to the installation, the event will offer a series of engaging talks and activities featuring prominent figures from the international design scene. These events provide a wonderful opportunity for the New York design community and enthusiasts to explore the rich heritage and innovative spirit of Italian design.

5 – 29 September 2024
H. 10AM – 8PM
Bloomingdale’s 59th Street
1000 Third Ave, New York, NY
6th Floor – Home/Furnishing department

Foscarini Spazio Soho dazzles at NYCxDESIGN 2024 with a vibrant display of paper flowers featuring the new Fleur portable lamp, guiding visitors through the latest lighting designs by Rodolfo Dordoni, Andrea Anastasio, and Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba.

The Showroom Foscarini Spazio Soho, in the heart of Soho, will be the hub of Foscarini’s presence at this year’s NYCxDESIGN, showcasing visitors a selection of Foscarini’s recent product introductions by designers Andrea Anastasio, Rodolfo Dordoni, and Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba.

Highlights include the Fleur and Chapeaux table lamps by Rodolfo Dordoni. Chapeaux features a minimalist design with a Pyrex support and three interchangeable hats in metal, glass, and bone china, each creating a unique lighting ambiance. The Fleur lamp, wireless and elegantly proportioned, is an object with a dual function: the more natural purpose of lighting, and the unexpected role of containing water and a fresh flower, adding a touch of refinement to any space.

Visitors can also explore the new HOBA collection by Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba, showcasing the timeless beauty of hand-blown glass and anti-geometry design. Completing the exhibition is the FREGIO suspension and wall lamp designed by Andrea Anastasio and realized in collaboration with the historical Gatti workshop in Faenza. Fregio is a ceramic floral bas–relief that combines a contemporary approach with age–old artisanal know–how. a blend of contemporary and artisanal craftsmanship inspired by classical motifs.

Foscarini Spazio Soho invites design enthusiasts, industry professionals, and the public to celebrate 40 years of transformative lighting design, highlighted in the new book “Some think it’s just about shedding light. Foscarini 1983/2023” narrating the brand’s journey. A monograph, edited by Alberto Bassi and Ali Filippini and published by Corraini, with six thematic itineraries, each including critical analysis and a selection of lamps, with a recap of the entire product range.

OPENING HOURS
MAY 16—23
WEEKDAYS: 10AM–6PM
SAT & SUNDAY: 11AM–5PM

Design, art and experiments with craftsmanship: Foscarini presents HABITUS, a new research project that takes shape in an exhibition and talks about the privilege of absolute creative freedom.

At Foscarini Spazio Monforte during Milan Design Week 2024, Foscarini presents a new research project blending art, design, and lighting. Along the lines of the Battiti initiative in 2022, HABITUS is a work of pure research: a project that moves in the space of possibilities between the idea and the product, in which Foscarini freely comes to terms with creativity, granting itself the possibility of exploring different directions in the world of lighting, without heeding the limits logically imposed by serial production.

The experimental project HABITUS, in collaboration with the artist and designer Andrea Anastasio, ventures into the territories of fine tailoring and embroidery of Arun Jothi and Natalie Frost, the creative talents of Amal, who develop the refined and often daring decorations on haute couture garments, in India and Rome. Beads, sequins and strips of laser-cut PET are the materials with which Foscarini has come to grips, to observe the reactions of light when the curiosity of Anastasio associates it with their iridescent and unpredictable textures.

“For a company, it is a true privilege to be able to take the time to reflect, to weave connections and attempt creative incursions into other worlds. It is also a natural choice, for us: getting out of our comfort zone is a part of who we are.”

CARLO URBINATI
/ PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF FOSCARINI

The pieces that compose the HABITUS exhibition, which can be visited at Foscarini Spazio Monforte from April 16th to 30th, 2024, are not lamps; they are made by an artist by combining the know-how of a company with the refined skills of an atelier.

E-BOOK

HABITUS —
Foscarini Artbook series #2
Research & Developement

Download the exclusive e-book ‘Foscarini Artbook series — Habitus’ to delve deeper into this free exploration that combines the know-how of a company and the craftsmanship of an atelier, to imagine new expressive languages, meanings, and ways of experiencing light. Critical insights by Carlo Urbinati, Andrea Anastasio, and Kassia St. Clair. Photographs by Massimo Gardone and Karan Kumar Sachdev.

Download the booklet

Location
Foscarini Spazio Monforte
Corso Monforte 19 – Milan

Opening hours
16 – 21 April
10:00 – 20:00

During the Festivaletteratura event in Mantua, Italy, the designer and inventor Marc Sadler captivated the audience with intriguing career anecdotes and his talent for innovation in a talk with Beppe Finessi, sponsored by Foscarini.

On Saturday, September 9, 2023, during the event Festivaletteratura, a captivating talk took place at the stunning Teatro Bibiena in Mantua. Marc Sadler was interviewed by Beppe Finessi, leaving the large audience spellbound. Sadler shared intriguing anecdotes about his lengthy career and his knack for creating innovative solutions across various industries.

One such example was his groundbreaking work in the 1970s, where he revolutionized ski boots. While bedridden in the hospital after a snow accident, Sadler envisioned using plastic as a safer alternative to the traditional leather ski boots of that era. This led to the creation of the first thermoplastic ski boot. His ingenuity didn’t stop there. Collaborating with Dainese, Sadler designed a motorcycling suit that provided exceptional protection for athletes, introducing features like the now widely-used back protector worn by numerous champions.

Being a true advocate of innovation, Sadler has been the recipient of four Compasso d’Oro Awards, including one for the Mite and Tite lamps he designed for Foscarini in 2000.

“I got to know Foscarini during a period when I was living in Venice, and Mite was the first project we developed together. For me, Foscarini was a small company that worked with glass, a focus that was quite different from what I was doing. One day, I met one of the partners by chance, on a vaporetto. Conversing about our work, he told me about a theme that was on his mind at the time. He asked me to think about a project that would capture the sense of uncertainty of glass – that handmade aspect that is impossible to control and grants every object its own personality – but could also be industrially produced, in a coordinated vision. We parted with a promise to think about the idea.”

MARC SADLER
/ Designer

Sadler’s creative contributions extended to Foscarini’s iconic Twiggy lamp, “which has become a staple in the world of floor lamps, following the renowned Arco lamp by Castiglioni,” stated Beppe Finessi, who also recalled how Twiggy is, for example, often featured in numerous advertising campaigns for various companies outside of Foscarini.

Throughout his illustrious career, Sadler has skillfully transferred his knowledge and expertise across sectors.

“I have embraced versatility throughout my career, designing a wide range of products, from shoes to lamps, ice cream counters to hot tubs. By attentively listening to my clients’ needs, I have strived to create objects that not only fulfill their requirements but also cater to the needs and desires of the public. This is what I enjoy doing”

MARC SADLER
/ Designer

An immersive installation at Foscarini Spazio Monforte and a colorful and essential stand at Euroluce: two destinations at Milan Design Week to discover the new collections by Foscarini. New light ideas with a central focus on the brand’s design freedom driven by experimentation.

Long-term collaborations that move forward along with new partnerships, experimentation on shapes and materials, with a constant emphasis on the product and the expressive possibilities offered by various types of workmanship. During Milan Design Week 2023, Foscarini presents the new collections inside the updated framework of Euroluce (pav.11 – stand 106) and the FuoriSalone at Foscarini Spazio Monforte, with two installations created by Ferruccio Laviani.

/ (IM)POSSIBLE NATURES: a wild garden takes over Spazio Monforte

The installation (IM)POSSIBLE NATURES – designed by Ferruccio Laviani – is one of the go-to destinations of Milan Design Week 2023. An immersive installation where a natural world – made up of grass, herbs, and uncultivated plants – seems to have taken over. Visitors are invited to actively participate in the experience by getting carried away by imagination to an almost dreamlike context. In the middle the space: FREGIO, the new lamp designed by Andrea Anastasio. All around it: the greenery. An unexpected urban oasis within the frenzy of Milan Design Week. A space where human craftsmanship and the beauty of nature merge.

/ EUROLUCE 2023 — Hall 11 Stand 106

Euroluce 2023 will be very different from the previous ones, with a complete rethinking of the layout of the light fair based on a project by Lombardini 22. A loop-shaped plan will optimise routes taking into the pavillions elementsthat are typical of city spaces to foster the creation networks and community. An ideal city, enriched by interdisciplinary and experiential cultural content, exhibitions, talks, workshops and installations. Foscarini will present the product novelties in a stand designed by Ferruccio Laviani. Colorful, essential, functional: the layout is conceived to give full visibility and properly showcase each of the new models.

HALL 11 | STAND 106
18— 23 April 2023
H 9.30/18.30

Not only product: Foscarini participates in the schedule of cultural activities at Salone del Mobile 2023 with a special workshop that investigates light, Italian design and the craftsmanship behind the creation of some of the most beloved products in the collection.

Workshop | Shedding Light on Mastery
Exploring the Art and Craftsmanship of Foscarini
HALL 15 | Area Workshop
20 April 2023 H 16:00

/ PRODUCT NEWS

The narrative Foscarini conveys to its audience in the presentation of the new collections develops in three precise directions, all pertaining to the DNA of the company: the continuity of long-term collaborations with creatives and designers; the curiosity towards new languages and talents; and the research on materials aimed to solve project challenges and find new expressive possibilities.

Designed by Andrea Anastasio in collaboration with Bottega Gatti, FREGIO represents Foscarini’s attitude towards exploring new expressive languages in lighting design, also approaching different materials. Made of a section of a ceramic floral bas-relief, the lamp is presented as suspension and wall lamp offering light directed both downwards and upwards.

Rodolfo Dordoni presents two new projects of table lamps.

CHAPEAUX, A family of table lamps with three different diffusers of different shapes and materials (metal, blown glass, porcelain) that seem to float in the void sustained by a transparent pyrex base (image below).

And FLEUR a battery-powered wireless lamp that combines decoration and functionality: it illuminates but is also a small vase where you can put some water and a fresh flower.

Ludovica+Roberto Palomba continue their research on blown glass presenting HOBA, an organic-shaped family of lamps, asymmetric and irregular.

Foscarini also confirms its talent-scouting attitude, presenting PLI: a lamp designed by the young Danish designer Felicia Arvid, making her debut in the world of lighting.

And finally, the architects Oscar and Gabriele Buratti present ANOOR a wall and ceiling solution with a high emotional impact which plays with the two souls – technical and decorative – of light. An answer for all architects and interior designers who are looking for solutions that are at the same time decorative and functional.

A highly diversified package of novelties because each new Foscarini lamp is the result of a collaborative project that is built together, through dialogue and exchange, taking time. Giving oneself the pleasure of a process that does not disdain but welcomes error, reconsideration, and putting oneself back into play, with the goal of bringing distinctive design objects with character and meaning to the public, decorative lamps capable of transforming space, even when turned off.

In a captivating talk led by Beppe Finessi as part of Festivaletteratura 2022, Ferruccio Laviani shared his passion and unique approach to object and experience design.

On September 10, 2022, at the evocative Teatro Bibiena, the talk “Enthralled by Objects” took place, featuring designer Ferruccio Laviani interviewed by Beppe Finessi. Laviani took the audience on a fascinating journey through his experience in the world of design. Starting from his roots in the school of lutherie and transitioning through furniture design, he shared his reflections on creating objects that go beyond mere functionality, aiming to evoke emotions and personal connections.

“The world is full of windows filled with chairs, lamps, and tables, so why should anyone choose a new one designed by me? The answer is simple: to make people see my products with the same eyes as when they fall in love with someone.”

FERRUCCIO LAVIANI
/ Designer

With humility and sincerity, the designer recounted anecdotes from his career, offering an intimate look at his most iconic works and the challenges faced along the creative journey. Stimulated by Beppe Finessi’s questions, Laviani shared his philosophy behind creating objects that blend different styles and influences, giving life to creations that defy time and conventional styles, opening new perspectives on creativity and contemporary aesthetics.

To relive the experience of the talk and immerse yourself in the universe of Ferruccio Laviani, you can watch the video of the speech following the link below.

Watch the video

At 2022 Milan Design Week Foscarini Spazio Monforte is transformed into a luxuriant Garden of Eden where new lights are revealed as objects of desire

As part of Fuori Salone 2022 Foscarini’s new products for 2022 are revealed in a fascinating installation designed by Ferruccio Laviani that redesigns and transforms the upper floor of Foscarini Spazio Monforte into a garden of Eden. De-Light Garden – the evocative name chosen for the installation – is an immersive journey in a luxuriant garden where new lights are revealed as unprecedented objects of desire for design lovers: Tonda by Laviani himself and Bridge by Francesco Meda – are the latest innovations. In the words of the designer himself, De-Light Garden plays on the theme of temptation and desire by reinterpreting the scene of Adam and Eve intent on gathering the forbidden fruit:

“Delighting means giving pleasure that’s also visual and tactile. De-light is dedicated to the subtle thread that binds us all in the overwhelming urge to possess something and the temptation we feel in desiring it. And it is precisely the temptation and pleasure that light, in all its forms, gives us that inspired me for the installation at Foscarini Spazio Monforte. When you enter you’re surrounded by the Garden of Eden and you see, as if frozen in time, the scene of Adam and Eve intent on plucking the fruit from the tree of Good and Evil, in a setting that looks like it’s straight out of a Dürer engraving. With this setup I wanted to give the idea that ‘falling into temptation’ every now and again is pleasant and that design and light also become an object of desire”.

FERRUCCIO LAVIANI
/ DESIGNER

The presentation of new products continues on the showroom’s lower floor with NILE by Rodolfo Dordoni and CHIAROSCURA by Alberto and Francesco Meda. These products, while very different and with their own identity, together confirm Foscarini’s consistently pioneering vision and its ability to constantly redefine the rules.

As further proof of Foscarini’s more experimental and innovative spirit, a great deal of space is dedicated to the research that the brand is conducting together with Andrea Anastasio on the theme of ceramics and interaction with light: Battiti.

In the project Battiti light is used not to illuminate but to construct. As if it were a material: it generates effects, underlines forms and invents shadows.

Learn more about Battiti.

There’s a new skyscraper in town: the light. For NYCxDESIGN Festival 2022 Foscarini pays homage to the Big Apple and its unmistakable skyline with the photography project “The City of Light”.

Once again Foscarini chooses the art of photography to narrate its evolution and its products. During Design Week 2022 in New York Foscarini presents “The City of Light”, an original photography project by Gianluca Vassallo and Francesco Mannironi where the protagonist is UpTown, the sculptural floor lamp by Ferruccio Laviani that pays homage – starting with the name – to the most inimitable skyline in the world: that of Manhattan.

A lamp-sculpture, a skyscraper of light with a presence of great impact, Uptown is a composition of three volumes made with plates of tempered, coloured and screen-printed glass, in the primary colours yellow, red and blue, superimposed to generate intense chromatic effects.
An illustration of Foscarini’s experimental approach, Uptown has been interpreted in a totally off-scale version, inserted at some of the most recognizable locations in the city: Greenpoint, Wall Street, Broadway, Midtown….

The photographs reveal the particular identity of Uptown, based on transparency, a red thread that has guided every choice in the design development, like the 45° ground edges that make the meeting of the glass plates imperceptible. That which goes unseen, and seems to be quite absent, has been hidden intentionally: what remains is an impression of simplicity, for an immediate interpretation of an object of great complexity. Striking even when not in use, Uptown becomes an absolute protagonist of spaces when it is turned on. The LED light source with dimmer is concealed in the base: when the lamp is on, the plates are filled with colour, and the light is projected upward. Uptown is a lamp of vivid personality, a case of extraordinary charisma that defines its surroundings with its forceful presence.

The signature collection “The Light Bulb Series” developed thanks to collaboration between Foscarini and James Wines/SITE is the protagonist of the installation “REVERSE ROOM” presented during Milan Design Week 2018 at Foscarini Spazio Brera: an overturned and angled “black box” that disrupts spatial perception and challenges our reactions to the environment and conventions.

Composed of a number of carefully selected pieces, in numbered limited editions, The Light Bulb Series is a signature collection of great value for the story it tells and the thinking it conveys. It is part of wider-ranging reflections on the light bulb as an archetype, with its typical form dictated by function and by the technology available at the time, which has remained constant for decades, in spite of the fact that technical evolution now makes it possible to adapt any form to the same function.
Wines approaches these considerations through explorations that gravitate around the main themes that have guided his architectural research, based on reaction to the surrounding environment and action on it. These themes are reversal, dissolution, nature, all those states of “architectural defect” that make it possible to rethink reality, giving it form while at the same time dissolving its boundaries.

All the pieces of the series are on view at Foscarini Spazio Brera in the Reverse Room, a special installation created by James Wines with his daughter Susan Wines, designed to bring out the characteristics of surreal inversion of these variations on a theme. In a room with dark walls, overturned and angled, with monochrome tables and chairs, the suspension lamps sprout from the floor, while table lamps look down from the ceiling, challenging our perception of spaces and our response to environmental stimuli and conventions.

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“This series comes from the idea of disrupting the classic design of incandescent light bulbs, an idea that suggests a critical reflection on the absolutely non-iconic forms of modern LED lamps. The concept, implemented by Foscarini, stems from research on the spontaneous way people identify with forms and functions of everyday objects. In this case, the light bulbs merge, crack, shatter, burn out, overturning any expectations”.

JAMES WINES
/ ARCHITECT & DESIGNER

The story of the collaboration between Foscarini and James Wines unfolds across a span of nearly 30 years, through several important phases, in a natural merging of respective poetics. Its roots date back to 1991, with Table Light / Wall Light, the first piece made by Foscarini with Wines’ SITE group, created for the cultural areas of the exhibition in Verona “Abitare il Tempo”, curated in that period by Marva Griffin. Some years later, the paths of Foscarini and SITE crossed again, thanks to an extensive profile published in Inventario (the book-zine directed by Beppe Finessi, organised and supported by Foscarini), written by Michele Calzavara with coverage of the group’s many projects. This led to Foscarini’s idea of reviving the first project, transforming it into a collection of editions of lamps and objects.

“For a design-oriented company it is always a privilege to cross paths with the conceptual and artistic evolution of creative talents with whom the firm shares intrinsic affinities. This is what has happened in the case of Foscarini and James Wines.”

CARLO URBINATI
/ PRESIDENT OF FOSCARINI

Luminous sculptures consisting of overlapping lamps from the Mite family, Tite, Lite rise up like high towers; delightful bouquets of Twiggy create luminous scenes inside impressively-sized spaces in a travelling project by Marc Sadler for Foscarini.

FIBER EVOLUTION is a flexible format designed by Marc Sadler with Foscarini which can be arranged according to the space that hosts the event each time. The large installations reveal the strong personality of each lamp and express the eclectic character of the entire Foscarini collection, devised to create situations of the utmost charm even in large-sized settings, particularly when the lamps are proposed in compositions. It is their multiple presence that strongly connotes the space with ever different furnishing solutions, giving rise to scenarios of the utmost emotional impact.

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Sadler’s giant creatures interpret the innovative spirit, the passion for research and experimentation of new materials and technologies that form the basis of the decades-long partnership between Foscarini and the designer, a partnership which has led to successful lamps such as the Mite and Tite families (Compasso d’Oro 2001) and the iconic Twiggy.

Fiber Evolution was first introduced in Cologne, and subsequently in Stockholm, Vienna, Valencia, Langenthal and New York.

To transmit brand values and, above all, the settings, atmospheres and suggestions that it wants to create through its lamps, Foscarini has presented a video-installation with a strongly emotive impact, at Fuori Salone 2007. Here is the scene as described by its creators, Vittorio Locatelli and Carlo Ninchi.

/ Etna. Exterior. Dawn

From darkness to light.
A landscape of black earth and lava in the bare, colourless, primordial dawn. There is an apparent calm and sense of peace. The silence is broken only by the wind and the birds. But the landscape still smokes; we can feel it boiling at its core. The moving earth breathes. Light grows and clearly separates the white of the air from the black of the land. This is an ancient landscape of memory and dreams. An inner landscape in silent movement.
A figure appears with the landscape. Not in it, but besides it. She is thinking of it, or maybe dreaming of it or remembering it. It is a crude figure, just like the landscape, with the whitest skin and the blackest hair. Oriental, beautiful and cold, with narrow eyes hiding thoughts and emotions.
Memories are born that we can guess at, but not understand. They tell of fragments of history whose theme is light and space.

/ Hong Kong, Man Mo Temple, Interior, Evening

Days gone by. A Buddhist temple whose ceiling is covered by smoking votive spirals. The light is fragmented in an atmospheric dust of vapours. The space is indefinite, mobile and kaleidoscopic, with concentric, spiral movement. A light of the spirit.

/ Catania, Palazzo Biscari, Interior, Day

Another history that interlinks with the one above. Another space and another light. A Baroque palace encrusted with sensual, voluptuous decorations as only Sicilian palazzi can be. It has a touch of the decadent, excessive and yet also magnificent. Here the light is fragmented by gigantic chandeliers in Venetian glass, amplified by mirrors and dissolved in the stucco and furnishings.
The music is sweet, romantic and tugs at the heart strings, like the music enjoyed by young people today – raucous, dirty and discordant. A troubled yet serene song. It speaks of the earth, but is made up of fragments of broken memories. It grows, unstable, with the dizzying spaces and then, unexpectedly, it returns clear and serene, while the figure identifies and superimposes with the landscape. The figure is the landscape. The circle closes.

/ Etna. Exterior. Day

When the landscape/figure explodes slowly and sweetly, it is not the volcano that launches lapilli into the air, but it is the image itself that shatters and slowly disintegrates. It flies into the empty space in a long, suspended period of time.
Before and after, in the real space of the projection, there are material, organic lamps that pulse with intermittent light. Before being objects of design and tools for illumination, they are primordial bodies that give the light form, spectators of the cyclic construction and destruction that occurs all around them. They are stable, silent witness and bringers of light in this dizzying landscape.