Non è strano dormire mentre la luna attraversa il cielo
Fondazione Pino Pascali•Nov 28, 2025 — Jan 05, 2026
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Non è strano anche che si possa dormire, mentre la luna attraversa il cielo? (Isn’t it strange that one can sleep while the moon crosses the sky?)
This phrase from Tommaso Landolfi’s Pietra Lunare begins with an alchemical creation leading to "another state of existence," made up of monstrous and exceptional creatures, all under a lunar vapor that silently oversees beings who appear only at night.
The work celebrates the Bacchic archetypes of non-being, alongside Gurù, a guardian who loses her human traits and becomes a hybrid creature, half woman and half goat—emerging from the tangle with her goat-like legs; at the foot of the rock, a monstrous form lies stretched on its side, heavy and immobile, with long womanly legs and a beastly torso.
Similarly, the work presented here aims to open the gateway to otherness, where rarefied shapes and inconsistent yearnings for matter reside.
The dissolution of certainties appears as a deposit car…
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Non è strano dormire mentre la luna attraversa il cielo
Fondazione Pino Pascali•Nov 28, 2025 — Jan 05, 2026
Press Release
Non è strano anche che si possa dormire, mentre la luna attraversa il cielo? (Isn’t it strange that one can sleep while the moon crosses the sky?)
This phrase from Tommaso Landolfi’s Pietra Lunare begins with an alchemical creation leading to "another state of existence," made up of monstrous and exceptional creatures, all under a lunar vapor that silently oversees beings who appear only at night.
The work celebrates the Bacchic archetypes of non-being, alongside Gurù, a guardian who loses her human traits and becomes a hybrid creature, half woman and half goat—emerging from the tangle with her goat-like legs; at the foot of the rock, a monstrous form lies stretched on its side, heavy and immobile, with long womanly legs and a beastly torso.
Similarly, the work presented here aims to open the gateway to otherness, where rarefied shapes and inconsistent yearnings for matter reside.
The dissolution of certainties appears as a deposit car…
