On the occasion of Arte Fiera, Garage BENTIVOGLIO inaugurates the year 2026 with a new project and presents in the window on Via del Borgo di San Pietro Temporali by Alberto Garutti, a work that connects the exhibition space with a distant and unpredictable natural phenomenon, transforming an atmospheric event into an intimate and everyday artistic experience.
The work fits conceptually within the tradition of artists who, beginning in the late 1960s, challenged the notion of sculpture by shifting its field of action beyond the object, toward landscape, time, and waiting. While works such as The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria entrusted the experience to a pilgrimage to remote places charged with the anticipation of an atmospheric phenomenon taking place, Garutti performs the opposite gesture: he does not intervene in the territory, but in what already exists, insinuating himself into the electrical system and turning it into a device sensitive to the world.
“Garutti knows the laws of the world and gives them to us as a gift: the work is in fact ‘dedicated to those who, passing by, think of the sky’—not necessarily the one above them, but perhaps another, distant one,” explains curator Davide Trabucco. “Elsewhere is at the center of many of the artist’s works, in the awareness that the truth we seek is always one step beyond our center of gravity.”
From this perspective, the work may manifest itself without witnesses, or not manifest itself at all, existing also in the waiting and in the possibility of its activation: the storm remains distant and invisible, entrusted to the viewer’s imagination, which mentally constructs its own sky, its own lightning, its own thunder.
From February 4 to February 28, 2026
garage BENTIVOGLIO
Via del Borgo di San Pietro 3A, Bologna
