Thaw: Gregorio Botta's new solo exhibition at Atipografia gallery

From Feb. 27 to April 24, 2025, the Atipografia gallery in Arzignano, in the province of Vicenza, will host a solo exhibition by Gregorio Botta (Naples, 1953), one of the most significant artists on the Italian contemporary scene. The exhibition, curated by Elena Dal Molin, is named Disgelo, a title that evokes both the passage from one state to another and the delicate interaction between nature and the invisible forces that govern it.

Atipografia, a space that grew out of the transformation of a family print shop into a place dedicated to contemporary art, hosts this exhibition that continues the gallery’s artistic research, which combines visual language with reflections on slowness, intimacy and silence, recurring elements in the projects the gallery offers. Gregorio Botta’s work fits fully into this context, offering the public an opportunity to reflect on the lightness of forms, on absence as a form of presence and on the poetry hidden in the most essential art.

The works in the exhibition, many of them new and created especially for this occasion, explore Botta’s visual language, which is increasingly oriented toward minimalism and the search for a synthesis that can reconcile the strength and fragility of natural elements. His art is expressed through a variety of materials: from wax to alabaster, from iron to earth, but also through the presence of natural elements, such as leaves, which introduce a direct link with nature itself.

The exhibition follows Gregorio Botta’s solo show at the Volume! Foundation in Rome, which ended in December 2024, and anticipates his participation at the MAN Museum in Nuoro, where his work will be exhibited starting March 21, 2025. The project of Atipografia, which under the direction of Elena Dal Molin aims to be one of the most innovative galleries on the Vicenza scene, aims to bring the most interesting voices of the global contemporary art scene to the territory.

Notes on the artist.

Gregorio Botta, born in Naples in 1953 and living in Rome, is one of the most well-known and respected Italian artists on the international scene. His career, which began in the 1990s, has seen a continuous evolution, with a growing interest in works that play on absence, lightness and essentiality. His training took place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he came into contact with Toti Scialoja, one of the most influential artists on the Roman scene. It was through his training that Botta developed a strong passion for encaustic, a technique that uses wax as its main material, a bond that would mark his art for a long time. This love for wax will also lead the artist to explore other materials such as glass, lead, iron and natural elements, such as fire, water and air.

Gregorio Botta’s works are characterized by their rarefaction, a vision that goes beyond form and focuses on emptiness, silence, and immateriality. His works can be found in prestigious public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, MAXXI, Macro in Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, La Farnesina Collection, Museo Madre in Naples, Mart in Rovereto, Musma in Matera, and the European Community Bank in Frankfurt.

Botta’s exhibition career has included his presence in a number of prestigious spaces, such as the VOLUME! Foundation in Rome (2009 and 2024), Palazzo Te in Mantua (2014), the MAC in Lima (2015), the MAC in Santiago, Chile (2016), and the Forte di Bard in Val d’Aosta (2017). One of his most significant exhibitions was held in 2020 at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, while a new solo show at MAN in Nuoro is planned for 2025.

Botta also signed the sets for three Sergio Rubini plays, Delitto e Castigo, Dracula, and Il caso Jekyll.

Thaw: Gregorio Botta's new solo exhibition at Atipografia gallery

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