BUILDING dedicates its inaugural exhibition (October 27, 2017 – January 27, 2018) to Remo Salvadori, a solo show that spans four of the building’s six floors, shaping for the first time the spaces of Via Monte di Pietà. The exhibition aims to create a symbiosis between the space and the works, a harmony between the viewer and the object.

Through this intervention, the perception of the architecture is transformed, establishing what the artist calls a “continuous infinite present” between the context and the works—works which, since 1973, have consistently pursued a dialogue between form and matter, time and space, lightness and weight, action and observation.

Salvadori’s relationship with gravity, with matter, with the solidity and fragility of materials (not as oxymoron or illusion, but as tangible outcome) comes to life in new compositions: open and balanced, regular and irregular. These forms are the result of a long-standing practice rooted in knowledge, compositional awareness, and mathematical discipline. The viewer may perceive in them an alchemical metamorphosis: the seven metals are forged to transform their nature and their mode of expression.

“The encounter with the seven metals required a time that is still beginning, an encounter full of questions, an additional space, a score, correspondences. . . the nature of substance. To see oneself and to see, in the moment. . .”
These are the words of the artist, who has established an intimate dialogue with metals, as if composing and carving on a staff whose language embraces the seven musical notes.

If the concepts of metamorphosis and alchemy may recall Baroque sensibilities, in Salvadori’s work they lead to a form of essential harmony—expressed through proportion, geometry, and an intentionally intense metaphysical reworking.

The vision of the exhibited works (a synthesis and culmination of a meditation ongoing since 1973) invites reflection on the present and future of art, in a dimension that is consciously timeless yet ever relevant:
“It is precisely an idea of vitality in the work—of the work as a place around which energy gathers and where an experience is lived, an intimate and dynamic exchange with the viewer.”