STORIELLETTE. Gianni D’Urso and Giuseppe De Mattia at VOGA Art Project

From 28 December 2025 to 22 February 2026, VOGA Art Project presents STORIELLETTE, a two-person exhibition by Gianni D’Urso and Giuseppe De Mattia, the third and final chapter of the 2025 exhibition cycle devoted to dialogue between two artists.

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Curated by VOGA Art Project, the exhibition opens on Saturday, 27 December at 7:00 pm in the spaces at via Francesco Curzio dei Mille 58, Bari, and unfolds as a fragmented yet incisive reflection on the present.

The title explicitly refers to Sturiellet by Andrea Pazienza, the iconic collection of short everyday stories, autobiographical flashes and ironic observations of reality. In a similar vein, STORIELLETTE constructs a mosaic of minimal, discontinuous narratives, bringing together Giuseppe De Mattia’s Cronache vere and Gianni D’Urso’s I ragazzi stanno bene series. The result is a sequence of episodes that speak of social disillusionment, existential precarity, failed escapes and small defeats, observed with a lucid, never complacent gaze.

Giuseppe De Mattia presents a layered imaginary that intertwines personal memory, popular traditions and a sharp critique of the art system. Through photography, drawing and audiovisual media, the artist builds ironic and incisive narrative devices capable of exposing the economic, political and exhibition dynamics that shape the cultural world. His practice moves along the boundary between folk art and conceptual approaches, maintaining a strong connection to collective experience and everyday life.

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Gianni D’Urso responds with works that emerge from collected materials, pre-existing images and manipulated objects, creating visual short circuits where play, dream and disillusion coexist. His research investigates the fragility of the human condition, staging an unstable and precarious reality marked by semantic and poetic shifts. Precarity, failure and irony thus become tools for observing the present without rhetoric, yet with a subtle critical tension.

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Paintings, drawings and sculptures are presented alongside a site-specific sound installation created collaboratively by the two artists, forming an archive of notes, voices and sensations. STORIELLETTE unfolds as an open-ended narrative that oscillates between melancholy and irony, offering an acute and resilient взгляд at the cracks of our time.

VOGA Art Project

Via Francesco Curzio dei Mille 58, 70123, Bari

28 dicembre - 22 febbraio 2026