The exhibition presents a complex reinterpretation of over thirty years of Luigi Tolotti's artistic research, through a series of works that employ various techniques: photography, photoengraving, chalcography, and even some works belonging to a more recent visual project.

ES_PRESS does not indicate a theme, but an operating principle that runs through the artist's entire work. “ES” refers to the Es: not as a thetical category, but as an active space from which impulses, urgencies and images still in formation emerge. “PRESS”, on the other hand, alludes to pressure, to a stimulus that is not explained, but undergone and made visible. Together, the two words also evoke the concept of express/expression: the gesture of giving form to an internal impulse and transforming it into a shareable experience. The graphic sign that separates them – the underscore – keeps open a space of tension between origin and manifestation: not a poetic name, but a function in constant activity. The exhibition does not offer an anthological selection, but rather brings together works from different periods of the artist's career, many of which have never been seen before or are rarely exhibited. The project is divided into several “chapters”, which reflect Tolotti's eclectic and experimental spirit. The works do not interact through stylistic or chronological affinities, but through tensions: different configurations of the same field of research that refer to and balance each other. On display for the first time is a series of works never before exhibited, such as Barcoland, the experimental matrices, most of the photoengravings and the GUNS series, presented not as concluded chapters, but as still active nodes in the artistic journey. Alongside these are works linked to Chladni plates, which make the generative principle of the work explicit, and a selection of works created using the ReGolaB technique, already presented in the ESCAVE project and reconsidered it within a new context of dialogue. The exhibition is completed by a selection of pinhole photographs, taken in different years and presented not as historical evidence, but as elements that are still structurally vital to the exhibition system. The combination of unpublished works and already known works, reinterpreted today, does not follow a celebratory or chronological logic. On the contrary, it reveals a spiral movement that runs through Tolotti's entire research, in which techniques and languages are suspended and reactivated when they become necessary again. In ES_PRESS, time is not linear: the works coexist as different manifestations of the same field of pressure, still capable of resonating today.

We look forward to seeing you at the gallery to share this journey until 28 March 2026.