Exhibition · ArtNoble gallery · Milano
Curated by Stefano Raimondi Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone The Italian-Brazilian artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) develops a body of research that intersects painting, memory, and territorial belonging. Conceived as a layered journey through practices, imaginaries, and ontologies of the living, this first museum monograph unfolds across the entire museum as a sequence of environments in which different systems — artisanal, symbolic, natural, and industrial — emerge as interdependent strata of a single, complex reality. Rather than organizing themes, the project constructs an apparatus in which images, materials, and relationships settle and transform over time, activating a reading of the present as a field crossed by tensions and continuities. Giulia Mangoni’s painting does not simply represent landscape, nor does it narrate a territory or document a cultural geography. Rather, it destabilizes the very idea of landscape as an observable surface, restoring to the visible its stratified, ambiguous, processual nature. Each work presents itself as a form of emergence: something surfaces, but what emerges always carries with it the pressure of what remains submerged. It is from this tension that Stratigraphies of the Living arises — an exhibition that does not simply aim to order a body of work, but to make legible its deeper method: a way of relating to reality grounded in listening, permanence, and sedimentation, while also cultivating a dialogue with works from the Museum’s permanent collection. Stratigraphies of the Living adopts a “geological” conception of experience, in which different temporal levels coexist and mutually influence one another, evoking a vision of the world as a process in continual becoming. The exhibition thus offers a reflection on the living, understood not as a collection of separate elements, but as a complex network of relationships traversed by memories, survivals, and transformations. Painting thus becomes an active…