Museum exhibition
Botanikum, curated by Claudia Zanfi, brings together around five hundred works, mostly drawings on paper, acetates, photographs, collages. The artist has a special bond with paper: old letters, account books, musical scores, loose sheets of books and diaries, on which he engraves his drawings, thoughts, imaginary worlds. This interest in paper conceals a deep passion for books and in particular for artists’ books.
The series of installations created especially for the spaces of Palazzo Zuckermann in Padua celebrates the beauty and forms of nature, spreading a continuous emotion, as in being surrounded by imaginary gardens. The hundreds of sheets hanging on the wall, supported only by light needles, create a kind of rainbow in the room. In both Eastern tradition and Greek etymology “sheet” has a sensory reference to leaf.
31 May – 15 September 2025
Palazzo Zuckermann, Padua, Italy
