Feb 05 - 08 2026
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Franco Perrotti (Abruzzo, 1953) trained in Milan, where he began his career in design collaborating with companies such as Tecno, Poltrona Frau, Moroso, Faram and Airon, before founding his own studio dedicated to industrial and interior design. His work combines art, design and craftsmanship, giving rise to objects, installations and sculptures in which function and narrative, design rigour and poetic imagery intertwine.
In 1997, he launched the experimental workshop Rude Bravo in Abruzzo with Mario Mariano and Tanino Liberatore, intended as a workshop where design is freed from market logic to become a critical gesture and practice of shared imagination. In 2024, his work arrived in Dubai with the exhibition Dissuader. Arte e design di Franco Perrotti (Dissuader. Art and design by Franco Perrotti) at Alserkal Avenue, during Dubai Design Week and, subsequently, Dubai Art Week, where the large suspended sculptural pigeon became a symbolic and political device on the themes of borders and migration. In 2025, the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan hosts the major monographic exhibition When I Was A Designer. Franco Perrotti, curated by Fortunato D’Amico, which traces forty years of activity, highlighting the transition from design to art and the progressive dissolution of disciplinary boundaries.
BEYOND THE SURFACE: THREE VIEWS OF CONTEMPORARY REALITY
Three artists, three photographic languages, a single reflection on the complexity of reality and the fragility of appearance.
Letizia Rostagno presents two complementary series. In โDIORAMIโ (2018-2024), the superimposition of images on transparent acetate creates layered narratives where each level condenses fragments of memories into a non-chronological temporal dimension, as in a theatre of the world that invites the viewer to actively interpret. With โIl mio nome รจ notteโ (My Name is Night, 2025), a series of self-portraits that investigates the dark territory of metamorphosis, the artist explores the impossibility of fixing a constantly evolving self. Night becomes a metaphor for the process of transformation, for that moment full of anticipation and magic when the veil is lifted and the world can finally see.
Antonio Schiavano, with โThe Beauty and the Baneโ, intervenes on beauty and fashion photographs through the application of oils and paints, deliberately corrupting the perfection of the commercial image. Each work becomes unique and unrepeatable, celebrating vulnerability as a form of authenticity and revealing how beauty finds its deepest essence precisely through imperfection.
Jacopo Bellapianta documents the degradation of non-biodegradable waste in โSingle useโ (2021-ongoing) through photographic still lifes that surgically highlight the consequences of disposable consumption. A visual denunciation that confronts us with what we would prefer to ignore: the weight of our environmental impact.
Four ways of deconstructing the image to reveal its substance: Rostagno through stratification and self-portraiture as metamorphosis, Schiavano through material transformation, Bellapianta through highlighting the invisible. Four invitations to look beyond the surface to discover deeper truths about our era.
Marilena Tesei was born in Forlรฌ, where she lives and has her art studio. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna and perfected her skills in the studios of renowned painters and ceramists. For years she has devoted herself to painting, despite her background in photography and literature. Fascinated by symbolism and the main historical avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, she has arrived, through personal research, at a conceptual, symbolic and lyrical abstraction. Her main signature is based on form-colour, as well as on a form-thought that makes use of geometric emergencies unrelated to rigid mathematical rules, projected into the universe of intimate feeling and determined by her need to narrate contemporary life and its difficulties in every social sphere.
Loretta Merenda. Transparency, fragility, subtle, delicate colours: glass, and Murano glass in particular, lends itself perfectly to this kind of work. Loretta Merenda, who graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, has worked with various materials: iron wire, parchment and tissue paper, sugar, masking tape, plastic, shells, colour-saving sheets, CDs, mosaic tiles and ceramic shards. In her glass workshop โDIVETRIMENTIโ, she has created endless variations on the shape of an everyday object that fascinates artists: the bottle, a synthesis of curved and straight lines, a contrast between full and empty, a product of both craftsmanship and industry. in this exhibition, he presents two Murano glass paintings, created using the glass fusing process, which plays on transparency and glazing, through the overlapping of pigments, enamels, very thin sheets and glass shards, the so-called โfrittaโ, exploring the slightest variations in tone, vibration, opacity and reflections that this material allows.
The project: Gianluca Ramini Arte Contemporanea was founded in 2023 after more than twenty years of collecting. I try to help young and mid-career artists by organising exhibitions, participating in fairs and proposing them to institutions (banks, museums, private collectors) for their acquisitions. I deal in the purchase and sale of historicised masters, collaborating with solicitors and notaries to provide the best advice on the sale of their clients’ works. The artists I work with are involved in painting, sculpture and ceramics.
I am committed to introducing works to new collectors so that they can fall in love with this beautiful world.
Gianluca Ramini
The Wikiarte Gallery, owned by Deborah Petroni and Rubens Fogacci, has two locations in the historic centre of Bologna: the first in Galleria Falcone e Borsellino 2D, a few steps from Piazza Maggiore and behind the Lucio Dalla Foundation, and the second in Via San Felice 18/A, 50 metres from Palazzo Pallavicini, home to important international exhibitions.
Two prestigious locations entirely dedicated to contemporary art, where retrospectives of historicised artists dialogue with the works of the new generation, creating continuity between past and present. A dynamic environment where collectors can feel accompanied in their research and purchases, from works that have marked the history of art to those of emerging artists destined to change it.
The selection of artists and works is made in collaboration with critics and curators and through participation in international fairs, from the United States to Japan, from Europe to Italy.
Wikiarte is not just a gallery, but a window onto the world of contemporary art.
Fabrizio Cadoppi in arte โBicioโ, artista bolognese classe 1968, fin da bambino manifesta una vera e propria passione per il disegno. Passione che lo porterร negli anni a sperimentare e a frequentare diversi corsi per il perfezionamento delle varie tecniche artistiche. Instancabile sognatore, sempre in viaggio con la sua matita โimpertinenteโ, Bicio ama esprimersi con un linguaggio iconico e figurativo.
Attraverso il disegno a matita, sua principale cifra descrittiva, lโartista esprime un mondo a volte spensierato, a volte fiabesco, a volte assai crudo e contemporaneo. Da questa stessa attitudine origina la riflessione sui confini della libertร , cardine della sua poetica e intrisa di attualitร , una sintesi grafica che esprime nelle sue opere abitate dalle zebre i suoi stringenti interrogativi.
Essere artisti significa voler essere liberi, come un animale destinato a spazi aperti per sua stessa natura oppure opere dโarte, iconiche, da lui stesso definite come sinonimo di libertร . E se un certo tipo labile di pensiero si proponesse di delimitare gli spazi dellโanima al pari di una irrisoria cornice che si illuda di poter contenere il concetto racchiuso in una tela, non resterร altro che osservare meglio la veritร manifesta: lโallegorica gabbia non imprigiona il soggetto, ma noi. Ostaggi di una vita in bianco e nero, perdiamo la consapevolezza di essere i veri protagonisti di un film muto.
Bicio รจ dentro eppure รจ fuori ma ci indica una via dโuscita. Oltre le sbarre, il cielo.
The artist’s works depict large faces with essential features and intense gazes that seem to probe the everyday life of the observer standing before them. At the same time, each of them tells its own story on the canvas. The result is a description of contemporary man and his contradictions, in constant struggle with his emotions. Men who hide, behind a well-crafted appearance, the search for something true. Only those who dare to go beyond and delve into the depths of those faces can glimpse the fragility of each of us and what we pursue in our own existence.
The paintings, created using mixed media on canvas, evoke introspective moments. They depict large faces with essential features, their gazes intent on investigating the daily life of the observer in front of them.
Only those who dare to go beyond, into their depths, will those faces tell their story and reveal the fragility of our existence.
The result is a description of contemporary man and his contradictions, in constant struggle with his emotions. Men who hide, behind a well-crafted appearance, the search for something real. Art thus manages to reach the essential concepts of man.
Fabrizio Cadoppi, known as โBicioโ, is an artist from Bologna born in 1968. Since childhood, he has shown a true passion for drawing. This passion has led him over the years to experiment and attend various courses to perfect his artistic techniques. A tireless dreamer, always travelling with his โimpertinentโ pencil, Bicio loves to express himself through iconic and figurative language.
Through pencil drawing, his main descriptive technique, the artist expresses a world that is sometimes carefree, sometimes fairy-tale-like, and sometimes very raw and contemporary. This same attitude gives rise to a reflection on the boundaries of freedom, the cornerstone of his poetics and imbued with topicality, a graphic synthesis that expresses his pressing questions in his works inhabited by zebras.
Being an artist means wanting to be free, like an animal destined for open spaces by its very nature, or iconic works of art, which he himself defines as synonymous with freedom. And if a certain fleeting type of thinking were to propose delimiting the spaces of the soul like a derisory frame that deludes itself into thinking it can contain the concept enclosed in a canvas, all that would remain would be to observe the manifest truth more closely: the allegorical cage does not imprison the subject, but us. Hostages of a black and white life, we lose the awareness that we are the real protagonists of a silent film.
Bicio is inside yet outside, but he shows us a way out. Beyond the bars, the sky.
Laura Pagliai analyses human existence from unusual and intense perspectives. Her characters, motionless and melancholic, live in a state of waiting. They observe in silence, immersed in reflections of uncertainty and unease. They represent humanity in search of its own โred balloonโ, a poetic symbol linked to the concept of dreams, lightness and happiness.
Manuel Binda is a self-taught artist whose work lies between street and pop art, reworking contemporary iconography through a figurative language of symbolic origin. After initially working in the world of tattooing, he expanded his practice to painting on canvas, developing a focus on the relationship between image, memory and the collective imagination. The works on display belong to the project Between Light and Shadow, the first chapter of a broader research project divided into several thematic areas, which addresses the theme of identity as a dynamic construction and, more generally, investigates the contradictions of contemporary experience through the dialogue between myth, pop culture and references to the present. In recent years, he has participated in nationally renowned art events, including the Biennale di Vigevano (2024) and Paratissima Torino (2025).
Silvia Ingoglia, aka Ginger, is an Italian visual artist who works with emotional abstract painting, transforming inner experience into visual language.
Her journey began in 2020, at a time of profound personal turmoil, when painting became a tool for survival, processing and rebirth.
Her works do not represent images, but states of being: primary and unspoken emotions that take shape through colour, gesture and matter. Her research is characterised by intense colours, material contrasts, fluid marks and chromatic tensions, where the dialogue between control and abandonment
generates authentic and deeply emotional painting.
With the project โLe Tele di Gingerโ (Ginger’s Canvases), the artist creates a space of connection between art and life, conceiving the canvas as a place of transformation, awareness and possibility. Her work is part of a contemporary vision of art as a transformative act, capable of generating light, truth and authenticity even in the darkest moments.
Presentation of โLA MIA GENTEโ (MY PEOPLE), a parentalis poster by Massimo Amadesi
Who am I? Where do I come from? One day I started asking myself these questions… then I remembered an old trunk that Grandma Emma kept jealously in her bedroom. When you opened it, old family photographs appeared: Grandpa Massimo, his brothers, postcards from the war front, pictures of emigrated relatives. Ancient flavours and special atmospheres. I have always had a certain attraction to things that are decadent and ruined by time, and finding those images sparked new ideas in me.
So I turned myself into a family detective: a discovery of stories, facts, people, memories… everything resurfaces and becomes a new album of images of times gone by, reworked and revisited through today’s eyes. Looking at the works in this project, you feel as if you are taking a leap back in time, your mind bringing back memories and images from the past. But it’s not just about my relatives, it’s about everyone’s family members. Everyone can recognise themselves in this journey, rediscovering old photographs, remembering an event or a family member who is no longer with us. The project therefore takes on a broader dimension that concerns not only me but anyone who observes it. I have chosen to exhibit 20 works from a total of 70 mixed media works on paper that tell many forgotten stories.
Tinamaria Marongiu, born in Cagliari in 1961, is a pioneer of the โArte Compattaโ artistic movement.
After an internationally successful musical career, she turned her attention to the visual arts.
In 2009, she obtained a Master’s degree in Art Counselling and began experimental artistic research.
Since 2010, she has been creating Box-Es, three-dimensional assemblages of heterogeneous materials enclosed in Plexiglas cases.
In 2013, she founded Arte Compatta, based on the values of Uniqueness, Universality, Union, Humanity and Equality.
Her works reflect a synthesis of matter, consciousness and social responsibility.
He exhibits at biennials and international exhibitions in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.
He has received numerous awards, including first prize for sculpture at Medusa Aurea and the London Art Biennale Award.
Since 2018, he has been featured in the Catalogue of Modern Art (CAM).
In 2025, he published the Manifesto dell’Arte Compatta, establishing the movement internationally.
The open ticket is a VIP ticket:
โข 33% discount on open tickets, valid until 28 February 2026: โฌ12 instead of โฌ18 (+โฌ1.50 booking fee).
โข Valid every day that Palazzo Pallavicini is open (including holidays, weekends and special openings). The date indicated on the ticket is the last day of use.
โข Skip the queue: the time of 10 a.m. indicated on the skip-the-queue ticket means that the ticket can be used from 10 a.m. until the last admission at 7 p.m.
โข No booking required: just turn up and enter the exhibition!
โข Non-nominal: give it to someone you love!
Important:
โข Online tickets (all skip the queue) can only be purchased on the Ticketone website at least 24 hours in advance. For the same day, they can only be purchased at the ticket office.
โข The time of 10 a.m. that appears at the time of purchase indicates the opening of the exhibition, but you can enter between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. and skip the queue.
โข The date of 19 July that appears at the time of purchase is the last date on which the OPEN ticket can be used.
โข In the event of extensions, open tickets must still be used before the first expiry date of the exhibition and will not be valid on the days of the extension.
The day ticket is:
โข Valid only for the selected date
โข Skip the queue: the time of 10 a.m. printed on the skip-the-queue ticket indicates that the ticket can be used from 10 a.m. until the last admission at 7 p.m.
โข Non-transferable: give it to someone you love!
โข Non-refundable in case of unforeseen circumstances
Important!
Online tickets (all skip the queue) can only be purchased on the Ticketone website at least 24 hours in advance. For the same day, tickets can only be purchased at the ticket office. Those purchasing reduced-price tickets must show proof of eligibility for the discount at the ticket office during validation.
Please note that once the purchase has been made, it will not be possible to change the date, time and type of ticket. No cancellations or refunds are possible.
The ticket with guided tour costs โฌ25 and includes:
โข discounted ticket for adults and children aged 6 and over
โข tour with a specialist guide lasting approximately 80 minutes
โข radio headphones and headphones to listen to the guide speaking
โข it is nominal but can be given as a gift to someone you love.
Important!
To gain access, please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the tour at the entrance to the exhibition at the Museum of Permanente in Milan (Via Filippo Turati, 34) and present your confirmation email.
Once the ticket has been purchased, it is not possible to change the date, time or type of ticket, nor to obtain a refund. Only by selecting the Secure Ticket option at the time of purchase is it possible to request a full refund or change the date.