Firenze
Art & Art di Armando Xhomo
Via Ghibellina, 109r – 111r
Artist Reception: 3 Ottobre ore 18:00 – 20:00
Roma
Rossocinabro
Via Raffaele Cadorna, 28
Artist Reception: 10 Ottobre ore 18:00 – 20:00
On the occasion of the 22nd Contemporary Art Day promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums), Rossocinabro is pleased to present the exhibition Superfici di Sovrapposizione (Overlapping Surfaces), hosted simultaneously across its Florence and Rome locations. The initiative sits at the heart of the current artistic debate, offering an open yet rigorous reflection on the concept of "geography"—a notion that transcends the simple topographical representation of places to become a dynamic space of encounter where matter, visual perception, and the stratification of memory converge.
The title itself, Superfici di Sovrapposizione, directs our gaze toward the very nature of the artistic medium. The canvas or photographic paper ceases to be a mere passive support, transforming instead into a true terrain of negotiation and dialogue. The surface thus becomes a threshold where the visible interacts with the invisible, and objective reality weaves together with inner reinterpretation. Each work functions as a temporal palimpsest: images and traces do not erase one another, but accumulate layer by layer, turning the painterly gesture and the photographic shot into overlapping levels of understanding that viewers are invited to reconstruct through their own gaze.
The conceptual core of the exhibition lies in the media cross-talk between photographic language and painterly practice. Far from being opposing or separate codes, the lens and the brush work side by side in a process of mutual integration. Photography is tasked with anchoring the work in reality: the camera isolates minimal details, captures fleeting moments, and records the traces of what shifts or risks vanishing, acting as a tool that extracts form from the fluid flow of time. Painting, in turn, steps in to resurface and deconstruct that very image: through the density of pigment, the vibration of color, and the physical presence of the mark, painting restores a bodily and emotional dimension. The brush does not deny the photograph, but rather expands its timeframe, turning a frozen instant into an enduring experience.
Through this continuous exchange between media, the exhibition charts a rich map of our present day. The works span from figurative landscapes to pure abstraction, and from intimate portraiture to studies of enduring and ephemeral forms. As a result, the landscape sheds its purely descriptive role to become a projection of inner states or raw geometric structure, while the human figure becomes a point of convergence between individual identity and collective memory.
Unfolding simultaneously across Rome and Florence, Superfici di Sovrapposizione serves as a visual framework that reshapes how we perceive reality. Working hand in hand, the camera lens and the paintbrush do not merely illustrate the world around us—they plot new visual coordinates, revealing the intricate, complex, and deeply layered fabric of our lived experience.
Firenze: Harry Bauer (Germany), Giorgio Binda (Italy), Nándor Bozsóki (Hungary), Fabrizio “Bicio” Cadoppi (Italy), Martine Cecchetto (Belgium), Victor Collardenas (Spain), Jaime Cuadrench (Spain), Stefano Giannone (Italy), Ashley Gray (England), ZaZa Herzet (Belgium), Christian Kleiman (Spain), Rebeccah Klodt (USA), Miiickey Madu (Ghana), Kazue Maeda (Japan), Barbara Marcinkowska (Poland), Nicole Martinelli (USA), James Nisbet (Italy), Tarja Pajuniemi (Finland), Josefina Temin (Mexico)
Roma: Giorgio Binda (Italy), Jean-Marc Bregeautl (France), Isabel Carafi (Italy-Argentina), Ioana Cobzaru (The Netherlands), Ana María Cortés Mencía (Argentina), Małgorzata Czerniawska (Poland), Riccardo Dametti (Italy), Monica De Marinis (Italy), John Down (Canada), Faten Khalil (Lebanon), Jayde Kim (South Korea), Rebeccah Klodt (USA), Fiona Livingstone (Australia), Ewa Martens (Germany), Nicole Martinelli (USA), Vethan Sautour (Austria), Lisa Yachia (Italy)