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Gates

These windows, filled with a woollen weave to form a lattice, are interior spaces that create passages over closed walls. They serve to rebuild lost connections. To repair and reopen paths, passages between an inner and an outer space. By creating passages, they heal bonds.

A border, once drawn, can be crossed and a fence is not always a prison. In the cell of St Catherine of Siena one returns to oneself. “Make yourself a chamber in your mind where you can go by yourself”, a protected place from which to observe, and not just to be seen. An “inner castle” as Teresa of Avila calls it, within which it is possible to wander.

Gate H

Red wool and square head nails on poplar disk prepared with lime, Ø cm 60, 2024

Gate H

Red wool and square head nails on poplar disk prepared with lime, Ø cm 60, 2024

Gate Luce

Gold wool and square head nails on white lime-treated wooden disk (Small gold-leaf interventions here and there on disk surface), Ø 100 cm, Unique Edition 2023

Gate templare

Indigo wool and farrier’s nails on painted poplar disk, Ø cm 120, Unique Edition 2023

Gate misterico
Gate misterico

Blue wool and horseshoe nails on painted wool disc, Ø 110 cm, Unique Edition 2023

Gate Stella

Indigo wool and farrier’s nails on painted poplar disk, Ø 35 cm, Unique Edition 2023

Grande Gate d'oriente

turkoman rug (19th cent.), indigo wool, farrier’s nails on wood panel prepared with blue lime and gold splayed profiles, cm276 x cm126, unique edition, 2023

Space mirror Gate

Antique carpet fragments, farrier nails and indigo wool yarn on wooden disc, Ø 100 cm, 2022

Gate Illuminato

square-headed nails and woven wool thread, 185 x115 cm, 2022

Gate #Finestra Armena

nails with square head and weaving of red wool thread on carpet mounted on wooden structure, 106×105 cm, 2021

Il tuo cielo è verde
Filatoio Rosso, Caraglio, 2021

Gate #Caraglio

wooden frame with square-headed nails and woven red wool thread, Ø 100 cm, 2021

Il tuo cielo è verde
Filatoio Rosso, Caraglio, 2021

Gate #Bocconi

steel nails and wool weaving according to design, 2020

BAG
Bocconi Art Gallery, Milano, 2021

Gate #Vercelli

weaving of red wool yarn with square-headed nails, 2021

Gate #Lucca

Red wool felt and farrier’s nails on poplar disc, Ø 160 cm, 2020

New Round Gate
New Round Gate

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, Ø 80 cm approx., 2019

Gate #01 Centina

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, h201x108 cm ca., 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019

Gate #05 Timpano

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, h213x107 cm ca, 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019

Gate #02 Serliana

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, h95x106 cm ca., 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019

Gate #03 Termale

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, h104x207 cm ca., 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019

Gate #04 Modernista

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, h148x121 cm ca., 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019

Gate #06 Bifora

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, h204x93 cm ca., 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019

Gate #07 Oblò

Square nails, red virgin wool thread, diameter approx. 65 cm, 2019

Seven Gates
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, 2019