Marc Chagall. Tra Poesia e Spiritualità

20 june- 25 october 2026

curated by Grégory Couderc, Anne Dopffer, Alberto Fiz

Study for The Song of Songs III, 1957, oil on mounted paper, 48 × 59.5 cm. Nice, Musée National Marc Chagall, MBMC 233. Credit: © Chagall®, by SIAE 2026. RMN–Grand Palais (Musée Marc Chagall) / Gérard Blot. Distributed by Photo SCALA, Florence.

On 19 June at 6.00 p.m., Marc Chagall. Between Poetry and Spirituality opens: a major exhibition bringing together 120 works, including paintings, sculptures, gouaches, drawings, engravings, books and ceramics created between 1922 and 1980.

Organised by the Department of Education, Culture and Identity Policies in collaboration with the Musée National Marc Chagall and curated by Grégory Couderc, Anne Dopffer and Alberto Fiz, the exhibition will be open until 25 October 2026.

The exhibition offers a unique opportunity in Italy to explore the relationship between Marc Chagall’s extraordinary artistic research and the sacred text, through a selection of works from the rich collection of the museum in Nice. As the artist wrote: “The Bible is the greatest source of poetry of all time. Since childhood, I have sought to find its reflection in life and in art. The Bible is like a resonance of nature, and I have tried to convey its secret.”

Focused on the poetic dimension of the biblical message and the Song of Songs, the exhibition also explores less familiar aspects of Chagall’s production, such as sculpture — represented, among others, by the works Moses and Christ on the Cross (1952–1954) — and stained glass. A series of maquettes allows visitors to approach the major projects conceived for Metz Cathedral, the Fraumünster in Zurich and the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The exhibition combines spectacle, cultural mediation and scientific research, highlighting the work of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

Informations From 20 june 2026 to 25 october2026

Venue: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Aosta

Adress: Piazza Pierre-Léonard Roncas, 1

Opening hours: Mon- Sun 09.00AM - 7.00PM

Palmieri Contemporary presents “Appuntamento con l’Artista”

A group exhibition in Turin at A Pick Gallery bringing together the artists who have taken part in Palmieri Contemporary's artist residency program in Celle Ligure.

11 june, from 7:00 PM

Palmieri Contemporary presents Appuntamento con l'Artista, a group exhibition tracing seven years of artist residencies in Celle Ligure through the works of eleven international artists. The exhibition is hosted at A Pick Gallery in Turin.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, a wide selection of works created within the framework of Appuntamento con l’Artista, the residency program that Palmieri Contemporary has been developing in Celle Ligure over the past seven years.

Through artists of different generations and backgrounds, working across a variety of media and approaches, the exhibition reflects a model of cultural production based on encounter and exchange, where time spent living and researching together becomes an integral part of the creative process.

The result is an exhibition that reveals the richness and complexity of the practices developed during the residencies, transforming the experience of the local context into a collective narrative of contemporary life and culture.

Featured Artists

Giulio Alvigini, Ermanno Brosio, Nicola Filia, Delaine Le Bas, Eleonora Mariani, Paul Noble, John Pettenuzzo, Reto Pulfer, Monika Romstein, Sebastiano Sofia, Annika Ström

Informations

11 june, from 7:00 PM A Pick Gallery, Turin Via Bernardino Galliari 15/C

RODRIGO TORRES. ÁGUA MOLE EM PEDRA DURA

(LITTLE STROKES FELL GREAT OAKS)

9 june- 13 august 2026

Rodrigo Torres, Água mole em pedra dura, installation view. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria A Gentil Carioca. Photo © A Gentil Carioca

rhinoceros gallery continues its collaboration with the Brazilian gallery A Gentil Carioca with a second project: the first solo show in Italy of artist Rodrigo Torres, “Água mole em pedra dura” (“Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks”). The exhibition was conceived during his two-month artistic residency between c.r.e.t.a, Rome’s leading center for ceramic arts, where the works were produced, and rhinoceros, where the sculptures and a new series of works on paper were completed.

From June 9th to August 13th, 2026, Torres unveils a new series of works influenced by Rome’s cultural landscape, including ceramic sculptures and a fountain. The artist will also present a new series of drawings and paintings on paper, mediums he has explored throughout his career but never presented to the public. Born and raised in Tijuca, a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood long defined by the presence of the forest and by the coexistence between urbanization and nature, Torres developed a practice deeply informed by the tensions between growth, erosion, permanence, and destruction. The sculptures explore the transformation of matter and the return to the earth: minerals extracted from the soil, elevated to monumental shapes, eventually fragment and return to the ground under the combined action of natural forces and human intervention. The reflection draws on Torres’ direct experience of the Tijuca Forest, where monumental trees fall, parts of mountains crumble under the action of wind and water, fungi spread across fallen trunks and seeds proliferate: “what the earth gives, it also reclaims.”

In Rome, the artist encountered an opposite condition. Here, architecture appears suspended in a constant effort to resist time and deterioration. Cracks are repaired, surfaces preserved, and structures reinforced in order to delay collapse. Torres’ sculptures exist within this strain, questioning the stability of their own structures and suggesting a latent possibility of collapse. Alongside the sculptures, the trompe-l’œil paintings resembling collages translate his sculptural language into two dimensions, decomposing material forms into overlapping planes and fragments. The exhibition also marks a shift in Torres’ approach to surface and color. Rather than employing his usual glazed ceramic technique, in which pigments are fixed through firing, the artist develops surfaces that reference Roman marble trompe-l’œil painting and frescoes encountered throughout the city. Painted directly onto the ceramic works, the interventions are not fired again, preserving a more immediate and unstable pictorial quality. In this new dialogue between Rome and Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition takes shape in close relation to its context, bringing together different practices and geographies through a reflection on matter, time, and transformation.

Rodrigo Torres lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He has a degree in Painting from the Escola de Belas Artes da UFRJ (2003), studied Photography at Ateliê da Imagem and took part in the Programa de Aprofundamento at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV). He worked as an assistant to the artist Luiz Zerbini, also in Rio de Janeiro, where he consolidated his poetic research and broadened his dialog with other contemporary languages. In his work, ceramics, paper, wood and metal are not just mediums: they form the very sea of ideas on which the artist sails. As the artist says: “In this sea I cast my net and find stories, cultures, knowledge, technologies and much more. In my boat I cut, paste, knead, burn, use whatever tool is necessary to transform my collection into an offering, like a lake that reflects the sky and transforms birds into liquid stains.”

Camouflage age and mimicry, conceptually present in his work, not only make up his aesthetic, but also instigate the public’s eye, shuffling the boundaries between what is original and what has been transformed. In 2026, the artist participated in a residency at c.r.e.t.a in Rome, which will culminate in an exhibition at rhinoceros.

In 2024, he participated in the group exhibition “Sambaqui” at the Inclusartiz Institute in Rio de Janeiro and showed the solo “Alterada” at the A Gentil Carioca Gallery, in São Paulo. In 2023, he took part in the group exhibition “Comunidade de Ressonância” at the Veras Cultural Centre in Florianópolis. Presented the solo exhibitions “Vale da Utopia” at the Artium Institute and “Livro de Quartzo” at A Gentil Carioca, both in São Paulo, in 2022. In 2020, he took part in the exhibition “A Casa Carioca” at the Rio Art Museum (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro. In 2019, he took part in the group show “BRASIL! Focus sull’arte brasiliana contemporanea” at the Museo Ettore Fico (MEF) in Turin, Italy, and “A Luta Continua” at The Sylvio Perlstein Collection - Hauser & Wirth, New York.

In 2017 he took part in “Songs for my Hands”, the Curitiba International Biennial at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) and the “Art of the Treasure Hunt: the Grand Tour” project in the Tuscany region of Italy.

In the same year he also took part in the exhibitions “Modos de ver o Brasil: Itaú Cultural 30 anos”, at the Lucas Nogueira Garcez Pavilion (Oca) in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, and “A luz que vela o corpo é a mesma que revela a tela”, at Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro.

In 2016 he opened the solo show “Apreensões” at Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and took part in the group show “Mapas, Cartas, Guias e Portulanos” at Sala de Arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil. He received the Itamaraty Prize for Contemporary Art 2013. His works are part of the collections of MAR - Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; José Olympio Pereira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Itaú Cultural de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil, Kadist Art Foundation and Raja Contemporary Collection, both in Paris, France.

Informations

Via del Velabro 9A, Roma

9 june - 13 august 2026

Every day from 11am to 7pm

gallery@rhinocerosroma.com

+39 340 643 0435