As part of the program “Autumn at Palazzo Fortuny“:

The exhibition documents the œuvre of Franco Vimercati (Milan, 1940-2001) through the presence of over 100 of his works. An artist of great significance for the direction he took in the field of contemporary experimentation, Vimercati is still little-known to the general public today. Over the years, Vimercati concentrated in particular on photographic surveys of everyday objects from his life, giving them an unusual soul and magic: 36 bottles of water, strips of parquet from the floor, a can, a vase, a glass… “ten years spent photographing only a soup tureen…”.

A refined and never commonplace artist, Annamaria Zanella presents a wide-ranging selection of her most recent creations at Palazzo Fortuny. Iron, copper, steel, glass, wood, porcelain, paper, cement and more are her favourite materials. The same materials that through memories, emotions, thoughts and an extraordinary technical ability are transformed into precious forms and geometries narrating fragments of the artist’s personal life, going beyond the mere function of ornament.

Maurizio Donzelli’s individual exhibition, Metamorfosi, curated by Andrea Villani, will enable visitors to enjoy a full approach to the poetic elements of Maurizio Donzelli’s work, always focused on some near points of the artistic operation: the concept of drawing, the discovery of images, the observer’s unavoidability in the definition of work of art, in the relation between light and colour.

The work of Swiss artist Béatrice Helg holds a unique place within the tradition of staged and constructed photography, first developed in the 1980s. Indeed her photographs are a far cry from hyperrealist or narrative pictures, from artificial reconstructions of scenes of everyday life; instead, her work features abstract forms and sceneries as well as luminous worlds.