“Acquilunio” by Emanuele Caprioli at Museo Sant’Orsola: a Dialogue of Light, Water, and Memory
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From 4 December 2025 to 4 January 2026, Museo Sant’Orsola in Florence hosts Acquilunio, the first solo exhibition by Emanuele Caprioli (Milan, 1993), an exhibition project born from a direct encounter with the work of Andrea “Bobo” Marescalchi.
The show is part of the initiative Uno, qualcuno, chicchessia: sulle tracce di Andrea Marescalchi, promoted by the Marescalchi Archive to mark ten years since the artist’s passing and supported by Toscana in Contemporanea 2025.
Curated by Valeria D’Ambrosio with the contribution of TAB – Take Away Bibliographies, Acquilunio explores the relationship between natural forces and human presence, placing at the centre two primary elements: water and light. It is from these two entities—ephemeral, mutable, yet capable of leaving deep traces—that Caprioli’s project takes shape. An artist who has long worked on the threshold between atmospheric phenomena and collective perception, Caprioli brings into view what usually escapes notice: condensation, reflections, luminous gradients, micro-events that shape our everyday experience of space.
At the heart of the exhibition is the visual dialogue between two new site-specific works by Caprioli and two pieces by Marescalchi from the archive: Untitled (Farfalline), a small paper work from the mid-1990s that intertwines mathematics and calligraphic gesture, and Cascata, a large-scale piece created in the final years of the artist’s life. Installed within the still-in-progress spaces of Museo Sant’Orsola, these works open up a conversation on time—its repetitions, its shifts, its hidden currents. Marescalchi’s work, in fact, resists linear readings: his production unfolds as a single continuous body, where themes, forms, and passions resurface like movements of water.
Acquilunio is the outcome of an artist residency undertaken by Caprioli between July and October 2025 at the Marescalchi Archive. Supported by TAB, he explored materials, works, and documents, generating not only the exhibition but also a collective publication gathering reflections, images, and writings produced during the residency.
The choice of Museo Sant’Orsola—a space in transformation that will officially reopen in 2026—amplifies the exhibition’s atmosphere of suspension and metamorphosis. As part of the exhibition cycle The rose that grew from concrete, Acquilunio engages with ideas of regeneration, of traces that endure through time, of spaces reborn through art.
Caprioli, who works with primary elements such as light, air, fire, and water, offers here a delicate, perceptive meditation on our relationship with the world. His practice, which often involves the public as an activator of invisible phenomena, finds fertile ground in dialogue with Marescalchi: two distinct sensibilities united by an ability to listen to what unfolds at the margins, in the folds of the real.
Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci
Viale della Repubblica 277, 59100, Prato
Date
21 novembre – 10 maggio 2026