From 16 July to 14 September 2025, Milan recounts the work of Remo Salvadori (Cerreto Guidi, 1947) with a multi-site exhibition involving three symbolic locations in the city - Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento and the church of San Gottardo in Corte - offering the public an immersive experience in the artist's practice and thought.
The exhibition, promoted by the City of Milan - Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale and Eight Art Project in collaboration with Museo del Novecento and the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano and under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, is curated by Elena Tettamanti and Antonella Soldaini.
Access to the exhibition, set up on the first floor of the Palazzo Reale, is free, as is the viewing of the work located at the entrance to the Museo del Novecento. Access to the works in the Church of San Gottardo in Corte is on payment with admission ticket of the Museo del Duomo.
After an introduction to Remo Salvadori's poetics through the display of six historical works rethought for the occasion, distributed between the Sala delle Cariatidi and the Sala del Piccolo Lucernario of the Palazzo Reale (held between 2 and 14 July) and the Museo del Novecento, the exhibition continues with the opening of the anthological exhibition in the rooms on the first floor of the Palazzo Reale and in the church of San Gottardo in Corte.
The exhibition brings together a corpus offifty-nine emblematic works to compose the largest solo show dedicated to the artist. The exhibition path distances itself from the traditional concept of a monographic and chronological survey because it has been conceived by the artist and the curators in such a way that each element in play is contaminated by the work, the visitor's presence and the space that welcomes them. The exhibition thus acquires its most authentic meaning "in the moment" of its making: "I don’t want to arrive at anything. I’m not seeking a work that represents me but one that I ‘stay’ with continually. I am ‘in the moment’ and that’s how I keep ‘the fire’ burning" (Salvadori).
The layout, designed to bring attention to the present, relates works with a strong historical importance and new site-specific installations in a visual rhythm that generates profound and unexpected associations. The exhibition constantly emphazises the dialogue between the work and the architecture that houses it, alternating moments of density with episodes in which the energy of an individual work is amplified.
Museo del Novecento e chiesa di San Gottardo in Corte
Two works by Remo Salvadori at the Museo del Novecento complete the exhibition. Alveare, 1996 (2024), is a dense sequence of thin copper rods arranged side by side at different distances, first presented in 1996. At the Museum it is placed along the large wall at the side of the entrance ramp, where it will remain permanently, becoming part of the Museum's collection. Salvadori also intervenes in the Museum's spaces with Nel momento, 1974 (2025), which stands on the skylight in the room that precedes the archive space.
A further chapter of the exhibition opens in the church of San Gottardo in Corte: from 18 July to 31 August 2025, the work 10 frecce nei colori di minerali, 1969-1970,enters into dialogue with the sacred architecture, offering a contemplative experience outside the museum space. The work, exhibited for the first time in 1970 and then again during the 8e Biennale de Paris in 1973, is placed in the centre of the space in front of the Giottesque school fresco and bordered by four columns.
10 frecce nei colori di minerali is exhibited in connection with Stella, 2025. Created especially for this occasion, this work finds an ideal rapport with the one overlying it and alludes in its form to a cosmological dimension.
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