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Matèria is pleased to present Sogno di Pietra, Stefano Canto’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition represents the concluding chapter of a cycle structured in three acts, dedicated to the theme of the archaeology of the ephemeral - a conceptual axis that has informed the previous exhibitions Sotto l’influenza del Fiume. Sedimento (2018) and Carie (2021). In continuity with this trajectory, Sogno di Pietra will be accompanied by a publication - set to be released during the exhibition - thus renewing the collaboration with book designer Fiorenza Pinna.
With Sogno di Pietra, Canto transforms the gallery into a quarry deposit: an intermediate space in which matter is yet to acquire a defined function, where everything remains possible and new trajectories become available. In this suspended condition, far removed from the aesthetic canon of consumption, matter reveals itself in its most authentic state - raw and alive.
Stefano Canto’s sculptures are works in flux, in…
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Matèria is pleased to present Sogno di Pietra, Stefano Canto’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition represents the concluding chapter of a cycle structured in three acts, dedicated to the theme of the archaeology of the ephemeral - a conceptual axis that has informed the previous exhibitions Sotto l’influenza del Fiume. Sedimento (2018) and Carie (2021). In continuity with this trajectory, Sogno di Pietra will be accompanied by a publication - set to be released during the exhibition - thus renewing the collaboration with book designer Fiorenza Pinna.
With Sogno di Pietra, Canto transforms the gallery into a quarry deposit: an intermediate space in which matter is yet to acquire a defined function, where everything remains possible and new trajectories become available. In this suspended condition, far removed from the aesthetic canon of consumption, matter reveals itself in its most authentic state - raw and alive.
Stefano Canto’s sculptures are works in flux, in…















