A greenhouse where works live, but butterflies no longer fly. Giulia Manfredi's solo exhibition in Milan

From June 26 to July 20, 2019, the Francesco Messina Studio Museum in Milan will be transformed into a greenhouse where works of art will grow and live alongside works made from discarded butterfly collections.

This will be the setting for the solo exhibition of Giulia Manfredi (Castelfranco Emilia, 1984), entitled Regno sottile, promoted by Premio Cramum and curated by Sabino Maria Frassà.
The exhibition intends to lead to a reflection on our fragilities and the responsibility that everyone has for the world we are leaving to our children.

For the first time, eight living works by the artist will be exhibited: the growth of plants in marble will be an integral part of the works; a kind of greenhouse will be created as time goes by. The installations are equipped with irrigation systems and pink lights necessary for the plants to grow. They are the sculptures Geomancy and Still waters run deep.

Giulia Manfredi’s works will be in dialogue with those of Francesco Messina: on the ground floor, the latter’s bronze sculptures look like living people in the garden she created.

The artist’scentral installation in the crypt, a drying riverbed carved in marble but still harboring plant life, seems to be a tombstone or a sick person,still alive, on an operating table. The theme of the transience of life is thus treated.

Surrounding it are Messina’s religious subject sculptures and Manfredi’s marble and butterfly works ( Psychomancy cycle). As curator Sabino Maria Frassà states, “Existence for Giulia Manfredi is at bottom a beautiful greenhouse, a precariously balanced garden in which butterflies no longer fly.”

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Opening with free admission Wednesday, June 26 from 6 to 8:30 pm.

A greenhouse where works live, but butterflies no longer fly. Giulia Manfredi's solo exhibition in Milan

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