Milan, BUILDING GALLERY hosts solo exhibition by Fabrizio Cotognini, with more than 90 works

by Redazione , published on 24/02/2025
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From April 3 to July 19, 2025 BUILDING GALLERY in Milan is hosting Transitum, the solo exhibition of Fabrizio Cotognini. On display are more than 90 works, including microcastings, sculptures, installations and drawings.

From April 3 to July 19, 2025 BUILDING GALLERY in Milan is hosting Transitum, the solo exhibition of Fabrizio Cotognini (Macerata, 1983), curated by Marina Dacci. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition project within the gallery and is conceived as a broad path through his artistic research, which develops in several chapters, creating a complex web of connections in the exhibition space.

On display will be a rich selection of more than 90 works, including microcastings, sculptures, installations and drawings. Some of the latter are made on 18th-century engravings, of which Cotognini is a passionate collector.

Fabrizio Cotognini, Hybridatio Mundi (detail) (2011; bronze microfusion, green Guatemalan marble) Photo: P - 38 studio
Fabrizio Cotognini, Hybridatio Mundi (detail) (2011; bronze microcasting, green Guatemalan marble) Photo: P - 38 studio
Fabrizio Cotognini, The Androgyne and the Double #6 (2024; white lead, white ink, and 24 K gold leaf on black French paper, 42 x 30 cm). Photo: P - 38 studio
Fabrizio Cotognini, The Androgyne and the Double #6 (2024; white lead, white ink, and 24 K gold leaf on black French paper, 42 x 30 cm). Photo: P - 38 studio

The exhibition feeds on ancient iconographies, drawing from epics, mythology and alchemy. Central themes such as transformation, memory, identity and knowledge emerge in this macro-narrative, where the evocative power of the imagines agentes renews our relationship with the ancient to invite reflection on the contemporary. The imagines agentes, in fact, manifest themselves as figurative elements capable of condensing different eras, activating collective memory.

As the curator observes, “the title of the exhibition becomes a metaphor for the artist’s own posture oriented to continuous research. Transitum recounts an infinite potential of both matter and human nature: nature in relation to man overbearingly appears throughout the exhibition, literally from a bird’s eye view.”

In parallel, from April 3 to July 5, 2025, the project also extends to the spaces of Moshe Tabibnia Gallery, also in Milan, where the artist develops a dialogue around the figure of the swan, a creature whose iconography spans centuries of art history.

For info: building-gallery.com; www.moshetabibnia.com

Fabrizio Cotognini, The Pure Fool, the Androgyne from the Parsifal series (2024; pencil, ink, pastel, white lead, watercolor, and mylar on original 18th-century engraving, 50 x 35 cm). Photo: P - 38 studio
Fabrizio Cotognini, The Pure Fool, the Androgyne from the Parsifal series (2024; pencil, ink, pastel, white lead, watercolor and mylar on original 18th-century engraving, 50 x 35 cm). Photo: P - 38 studio
Fabrizio Cotognini, The Song of the Stars - John Dee from the Celestial Maps series (2025; white lead, pantone, watercolor, ink, 110 x 110 cm). Photo: P - 38 studio
Fabrizio Cotognini, The Song of the Stars - John Dee from the Celestial Maps series (2025; white lead, pantone, watercolor, ink, 110 x 110 cm). Photo: P - 38 studio

Milan, BUILDING GALLERY hosts solo exhibition by Fabrizio Cotognini, with more than 90 works
Milan, BUILDING GALLERY hosts solo exhibition by Fabrizio Cotognini, with more than 90 works


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