Rome, 27 March 2026 – Porte Rosse inaugurates Antonio Ricciardi's solo exhibition entitled “ISTANTI: dopo il passato, prima del futuro” (MOMENTS: after the past, before the future).

The exhibition brings together a selection of large-scale oil paintings on canvas. The works are not limited to representing reality, but seek to capture that temporal “non-place” that is the present.

Ricciardi's style is distinguished by his use of chiaroscuro and refraction. In his paintings, light not only illuminates forms but also defines them, creating atmospheres that oscillate between the realism of technical details and the emotional evocativeness of landscapes and portraits.

Each canvas is an isolated fragment of time, an invitation to stop and observe what normally escapes us: the beauty of the pure moment, devoid of narrative but charged with existence.

The exhibition is based on a fundamental premise: beauty is not an absolute value, but an accidental encounter, demonstrating how even the most mundane object or the most overlooked detail of our daily lives can be elevated to an object of art. It is not the material that defines value, but the complicity between a particular light, an unusual angle and the sensitivity of the observer.

The moment is the exact temporal perimeter of this revelation. Beauty appears as a precarious balance, a blink of an eye that happens right there: where the past has just ended and the future has yet to manifest itself. In this temporal “non-place”, the ordinary is transfigured, offering the viewer the opportunity to pause and grasp the exceptional in the usual.

"Beauty does not reside in things, but in the moment we decide to look at them for what they could be, beyond what they have always been".

“ISTANTI” is not just an exhibition, but an invitation to re-educate the gaze, to find the extraordinary in the folds of the day and to recognise that every moment of grace is, by its very nature, fleeting and unrepeatable.