Angelo Gallo | LIBERA CIRCOLAZIONE ENTRO FRAGILI CONFINI
From 11/03/2026 To 09/05/2026
After Cosenza (Museo dei Bretti e degli Enotri), Rome (Villa Altieri – Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale) and Matera (Musma), A-Head Project together with the artist Angelo Gallo arrives in Milan at Galleria Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea with the exhibition “Libera circolazione entro fragili confini”.
From 11 March to 9 May 2026, the gallery presents Angelo Gallo’s first solo exhibition in Milan. The project, curated by Raffaella De Chirico, is part of the exhibition program promoted and supported by A-Head Project of Angelo Azzurro Onlus, an initiative committed to fostering dialogue between contemporary art and mental health, with the aim of combating stigma and encouraging processes of awareness and rehabilitation through art. The exhibition unfolds as a unified journey through Gallo’s research: not a chronological sequence of works, but a coherent organism in which pieces created at different moments resonate around the themes of the body, memory, sensitivity and inner transformation. The exhibition project develops across two communicating rooms, conceived as complementary parts of a single perceptual experience. The path begins from the origin of the fracture and progressively opens to a dimension of listening, stratification and waiting, without interruption. The first room introduces the original nucleus of the research on Forced Anatomies. At the center is the calcography Wingless Bird #020072, a foundational work of the series that conveys the image of a body deprived of the possibility of flight and becomes the conceptual matrix of the entire project. On a small pedestal, a display case holds a letter from the Random Recipient project, an intervention that activates a processual and relational dimension central to the artist’s practice. In the days preceding the opening, the project will be disseminated throughout the urban space of Milan through a route of delivery and dispersion of the letters; one of them will remain in the gallery as a physical trace of an action that has taken place within the time and space of the city. Completing the environment is the interactive sound panel Memory, belonging to the series Sensitive Anatomies, which introduces sound as an immaterial and perceptual element, creating a sensitive bridge with the following room. The second room hosts the pulsating core of the exhibition. Here the dialogue between Forced Anatomies and Sensitive Anatomies becomes more articulated and engaging. At the center of the space stands the interactive installation Waiting, which investigates the feeling of waiting as an existential condition: a suspended time in which listening becomes a form of presence and relationship. The work directly involves the audience, transforming waiting into a shared and physically perceptible experience. Around this nucleus four calcographies belonging to the second series of Forced Anatomies are presented, realized through etching, aquatint and photogravure. Skeletal anatomies of wingless birds overlap with female bodies, generating images of strong visual and emotional tension. In dialogue with each work, four light panels created from the transparencies used for the photogravures reveal the process of constructing the image, shifting the focus from the final result to the stratification that generated it. Light thus becomes an analytical tool, revealing the time, fragility and transformation inherent in artistic practice.
As a whole, Libera circolazione entro fragili confini constructs a coherent path that traverses origin, memory, waiting and sensitivity. Calcographies, interactive installations, sound works and luminous devices dialogue within an exhibition layout conceived as a living organism in constant becoming. The body, time and listening emerge as instruments of investigation and knowledge, inviting visitors to an experience that goes beyond the visual dimension and becomes deeply perceptual. The exhibition will remain open until 9 May 2026, spanning two central moments of the Milanese spring — Art Week and Design Week — and confirming the commitment of Galleria Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea and A-Head Project in supporting artistic practices capable of combining research, sensitivity and cultural responsibility.