From July 3 to 12, 2026, the Diocesan and Capitular Museum of Terni will host Transitions, a solo exhibition by Carla Pugliano. The opening, scheduled for July 4 at 4:30 PM, will feature a critical intervention by Daniele Radini Tedeschi, curator of the Grenada Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale 2026 and editorial director of the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea published by Giunti.

Patronized by the Municipality of Terni and realized in collaboration with Start Edizioni, the Cultural Association La Rosa dei Venti, and CathArt Gallery, Transitions represents a significant milestone in Carla Pugliano’s artistic research. The artist identifies matter as the privileged place for reflecting on the meaning of existence and its continuous transformations. The works presented in the exhibition stand as testimonies of an ongoing process, in which the visible dimension opens up to a deeper, evocative, and contemplative sphere.

Through chromatic layering, sedimentations, and marks emerging from the pictorial surface, the artist constructs perceptual fields where memory and intuition coexist in a dynamic balance. The chromatic impasto becomes a living presence, a repository of experiences, a place where what belongs to the most intimate sphere of the individual emerges.

In this perspective, painting does not aim to describe reality but to question it. It is precisely within this emotional tension between presence and absence, permanence and transformation, that the artist’s most authentic signature emerges.

The exhibition coherently continues the artist’s path, recently highlighted by her inclusion in the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea, where it is noted that “the artist succeeds in building a bridge between tradition and innovation” and that “her works reveal a constantly evolving poetics, oriented toward a gradual and continuous refinement.” A poetics in which “the defining feature is pathos—intense, palpable, and vibrant.” As further emphasized in the critical text published in the volume, “she gives life to a form of emotional release where color and matter, privileged tools of creation, manage to penetrate and explore the soul. Sensitive and perceptive, Carla Pugliano becomes the narrative voice of reflections on earthly existence, long subject to contemplation by saturnine spirits.”

Transitions is conceived as a journey of contemplation and awareness, in which painting becomes a tool of knowledge, capable of transforming visual experience into an inner voyage of introspection and self-discovery.

The exhibition will be open to the public from July 3 to 12, 2026, daily from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, including weekends, with free admission.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Carla Pugliano is an artist, curator, and founder of CathArt Gallery in Varese, an exhibition space and studio dedicated to contemporary art. Since 2025, she has served as Artistic Consultant for the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea published by Giunti.

In June 2026, she will take part with an artistic synopsis in the National Pavilion of Guatemala, LAS INVISIBLES – 61st Venice Biennale of Art, at Spazio Berlendis, curated by Stefania Pieralice. In 2024, she participated in the collective The Perceptive Group at the National Pavilion of Grenada during the 60th Venice Biennale. In October 2026, she will also be featured in a group exhibition at Sparks Gallery in San Diego, California, in collaboration with the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation.

Her artistic research, appreciated by critics and curators such as Daniele Radini Tedeschi, Vittorio Sgarbi, and Andrea Barretta, develops between figurative art and contemporary experimentation, maintaining a constant dialogue between matter, memory, and spirituality.

She was also featured with a projected artwork, among those published in the Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea 2026, at “The Celeste Bartos Theater 3” at MoMA, New York, during the international presentation of the volume.

Among her most significant awards are the Golden Lion at the Venice Triennale 2024, the award received at the Cremona Biennale 2026, the Art and Culture Prize of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the Career Award at Palazzo Malaspina, the Vasari Prize from Museo ArteIngenio, the Jury Prize from Museo NonantolArte, and the International Art Prize Maestri in Milan.

Her exhibition history includes numerous group shows alongside the international experiences mentioned above, including the Venice Triennale 2024, the 14th Florence Biennale, the Lisbon Biennale, and the Milan Biennale. Her career also includes exhibitions in museums, institutional venues, and art events in Italy and abroad. Among her most relevant solo exhibitions are L’Accento sull’Arte (Rome, Galleria La Pigna), Ossimori dell’Anima (Sacro Monte di Varese), Mimesis (Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome Art Week), Catarsi Evolutiva (Sala Lucio Fontana, Comabbio), and Dialoghi dell’Anima at CathArt Gallery.

EXHIBITION VENUE

Diocesan and Capitular Museum of Terni
Via XI Febbraio 4 – Terni, Italy

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