A reflection on place, origins, and art.

A blend of irony and exhortation, this group exhibition features seven artists under 35 who gravitate, or have gravitated, around a single place: Brianza. Giorgio Bernasconi, Manuel Esposito, Gabriele Napoli, Marco Paleari, Aronne Pleuteri, Rikyboy, and Beatrice Spadea are the protagonists of a mise en scène aimed at recognizing and reevaluating the region through an engaging artistic journey. The project stems from the desire to give voice to a generation that lives and narrates the world through various contemporary languages, and unfolds in a series of works ranging from drawing to painting, from sculpture to installation.

Among the graphic and pictorial works are: Rikyboy, Gabriele Napoli, Aronne Pleuteri, and Marco Paleari. Rikyboy is a visual artist whose poetics hark back to childhood memories in which nostalgia reigns supreme. The blend of rural views and the circus world is the object-subject of his works. Gestural and fragmented painting alternates with the flat areas of poster art. A contemporary representation enveloped in an atmosphere of times gone by. Delving into the pictorial realm, particularly the trompe l’oeil technique, Gabriele Napoli presents a series of works that pay homage to traditional painting while emphasizing the contemporaneity of his work. The rigorous process and the density of the pictorial layers form a material that simulates the tearing of a fresco. The scenes depicted are landscapes and recall fairy tales or interior spaces. The figures, the artist’s alter egos, are suspended between adolescence and adult life. Aronne Pleuteri, a multifaceted artist, is represented in the exhibition by paintings that explore his most prominent themes, such as the senseless, embarrassment, and social conventions. With a subtle balance between irony and critical reflection, Pleuteri reflects on today’s community through explicit language. Between drawing and painting, we encounter Marco Paleari, who reinterprets the sacred and profane iconography of the Renaissance and Mannerism with the aim of updating them in tragicomic form. Paleari’s painted drawings are suspended between the history of art of the past, personal memories, and new perspectives. A stage where past and present meet. Beatrice Spadea, Giorgio Bernasconi, and Manuel Esposito, on the other hand, stand out for their experimentation with sculpture and installation. Beatrice Spadea explores the subtle boundary between imagination, perception, and memory. Through works that often simulate spaces, Spadea creates installations that interact with the viewer with the aim of recreating other dimensions, specifically a place of the “not yet happened.” Giorgio Bernasconi engages in transdisciplinary research between visual and installation arts. Here, the works titled Processo Miceliare are inspired by forms from the natural world, but are artificially designed: inside a 3D PLA print, a mycelium grows and produces mushrooms. The work simulates the ecosystem, reflecting on the balance between nature and artifact. Manuel Esposito advocates the philosophy that “the artist must concern himself with the things of the world,” and with this statement, one could say that his ideas are detached from pragmatism and reside in who knows what territory. Esposito’s sculpture finds its place between provocation and consideration of the everyday, between monumentality and affection for the banal.

Move Your Hands (Fa andà i man) is set in a territory that is both backdrop and pretext. Brianza has undoubtedly shaped the goals, cultural references, emotions, and sensibilities of each of us, and this exhibition offers the viewer a more intimate vision—that of individual itineraries—and a more universal one, the desire to belong to this precise historical moment through art.