Michele Savino at Studio Vanna Casati: The Anagram as a Form of Thought — Exhibition Extended by One Week

On the occasion of the 21st edition of the Giornata del Contemporaneo promoted by AMACI, the Studio Vanna Casati in Bergamo presents L’anagramma, a solo exhibition by Michele Savino, entirely dedicated to his ongoing research on the practice of anagram.

Formazione Anagrammatica

The venue becomes more than an exhibition space: the Studio turns into a critical device, a workshop of thought and language, where words and images are continuously deconstructed and recomposed before the viewer’s eyes. Given the strong public response, the exhibition has been extended for one additional week.

For Savino, the anagram as form of thought is a living organism — “a challenge between mind and word.” The mind pushes while the word resists, only to reorganize itself, altering the order of its letters without losing its essence. This process, both rigorous and playful, functions as a kind of psychoanalysis of language, revealing buried meanings and unexpected semantic connections. Every word, as the artist describes, is “a small army”: the mind rearranges its formation over and over, generating new constellations of sense. The result is a verbo-visual theater, where order bends without breaking and the surface of language opens toward depth.

At Studio Vanna Casati, this conceptual tension becomes visible. The exhibition highlights the laboratory dimension of Savino’s work: texts, notes, and visual compositions enact the friction between rule and invention, demonstrating how the anagram “forms, deforms, and transforms” without betraying the inner structure of language. The show invites viewers to slow down and look closely — to enter the combinatorial labyrinth and find the hidden key that unlocks the safe of words.

Studio Vanna Casati

Bergamo

Date 4 ottobre 2025  - 26 ottobre 2025

Stone and Coral at Candy Snake Gallery, Milan – A Dual Exhibition by Diego Azzola and Gloria Tomasini

From October 22 to November 22, 2025, Candy Snake Gallery in Milan presents Stone and Coral, a dual solo exhibition by Diego Azzola and Gloria Tomasini.

Gloria Tomasini, Milk Bruise II, 2025

The project creates a dialogue between the two young artists through a shared fascination with aquatic worlds. The details of stone fountain statues represented in Azzola’s paintings encounter the complex coral congregations modeled in ceramic by Tomasini, forming an interplay between solidity and metamorphosis, stillness and vitality.

Stone and Coral Candy Snake Gallery invites viewers into an environment where natural and artificial merge, and where matter itself becomes a living, evolving entity.

Diego Azzola (Bergamo, 2000) graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti G. Carrara in Bergamo, completing his master’s degree in painting in 2025. His practice centers on a primal, vital amalgam—creation and destruction, assembly and disintegration—as the fundamental premise of his work. At the heart of his research lies the potential to generate new forms of life and to merge elements from contrasting realms. Through painting, installation, and sculpture, he explores the space between the natural and the artificial, searching for new hybrids and ambiguous identities that challenge the boundaries of life and individuality.

Gloria Tomasini (Lugano, 1999) is a Swiss-Croatian visual artist. She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 2022 and currently lives in Zurich, where she is pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at ZHdK. Her artistic process is rooted in manual craftsmanship and a meditative relationship with materials. Modeling becomes for her an introspective act, an entry into a suspended, timeless space where imagination and physical gesture intertwine.

Diego Azzola, Dolomia, 2025

Through delicate organic forms and detailed textures, Tomasini explores a tactile and sensorial perception of nature. Her ceramic works evoke microcosms—small ecosystems where fragility and resilience coexist, and where the material itself becomes experience.

Together, Azzola and Tomasini compose a poetic and subaquatic landscape, where artistic gesture follows the slow rhythm of natural transformation. In the rooms of Candy Snake Gallery, painting and sculpture converge in a suspended dialogue that invites viewers to immerse themselves in a fluid world of silent presences and continuous change.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., at Candy Snake Gallery, Via degli Orombelli 15, Milan.

Candy Snake Gallery

Milano

Date 22 ottobre 2025  - 22 novembre 2025

Apparitions by Carlo Alberto Rastelli: in Imola, painting that stretches time

Saturday, October 18 at 6 p.m., marks the opening of Apparitions Carlo Alberto Rastelli at Il Pomo da DaMo Gallery in Imola. On view are “constellated” portraits, veined wooden surfaces, and landscapes from another dimension. The artist, a finalist at both the Premio Combat and Premio Cairo, presents a body of work that expands perception, where abstraction and reality blur and shift.

Carlo Alberto Rastelli, Doctor Who

The solo exhibition Apparitions—curated by Francesca Baboni and Stefano Taddei—questions the act of seeing itself. The real and the abstract touch, overlap, and sometimes deny one another, leaving behind a web of clues rather than a linear narrative.

Rastelli — finalist of both the Premio Combat and Premio Cairo — brings visual memory and the present into tension. His works draw upon photographic archives and historical imagery, renewed through a layered painterly practice: iridescent acrylics, stencils, and even masking tape are used to modulate surfaces, while fir wood panels reveal their natural veins like a seismograph of time.

In his group portraits, the human face is never stable; it dissolves into constellations, opening to metamorphoses that suggest a humanity in transit — restless within its temporal and spatial limits. Elsewhere, figures are obscured: galaxies and “black holes” veil their features and anatomies — as in the emblematic portrait of Andrea Costa, the Imola-born figure who traversed anarchism and socialism. Pastel hues merge with dark backgrounds and Romantic echoes: in the landscapes, one perceives traces of Böcklin and Turner, specters of an insistent memory.

The canvas series Pet Sematary — a declared homage to Stephen King — shifts the focus toward landscape. Latvian forests observed from life are populated by crosses and skulls, activated through dripping and chromatic bursts that suppress the human figure until it vanishes. The result is a perceptual slippage: a nearby elsewhere, almost within reach, where reference becomes uncertain and every image seems to arrive from an unaligned time.

Carlo Alberto Rastelli, Ein Handschuh Pittura

“Reality and abstraction blend in a suspended narrative, resistant to any univocal reading,” explain curators Francesca Baboni and Stefano Taddei. “Faces and groups turn into constellations: humanity appears to yearn for transcendence, to overcome its limits,” they add.

Rather than illustrating reality, Apparitions destabilizes it: painting becomes a space of unstable translation, where images emerge as traces and sediments rather than as completed figures. An invitation to look longer — against the haste of the present.

Il Pomo da DaMo Contemporary Art

Imola

Date 18 ottobre 2025 – 8 febbraio 2026