Exhibition | FIVE ARTISTS FOR FIVE MATERIALS: BENEDINI, COLETTA, CUSCHERA, DE MARCHI, AND ŌKI

february 6th - march 15th
from tuesday to saturday, 12 am -7 pm

Exhibition | FIVE ARTISTS FOR FIVE MATERIALS: BENEDINI, COLETTA, CUSCHERA, DE MARCHI, AND ŌKI

From February 5 through March 19, 2026, the Paula Seegy Gallery presents the group exhibition Five Artists for Five Materials: Benedini, Coletta, Cuschera, De Marchi and Ōki, curated by Luigi Sansone. 

The exhibition presents a detailed investigation into the expressive possibilities of materials and the ability of contemporary artistic practice to generate a holistic experience.

The exhibition unfolds as a reflection on how different materials, shaped according to individual artistic poetics, can weave a unified discourse of forms, surfaces, and spatial relationships. The main materials—wood, copper, iron, steel, and glass—are representative of each artist’s research and explore their intrinsic qualities: Gabriella Benedini delves into wood in its organic dimension and tactile memory; Pietro Coletta explores copper as a surface of transformation, oxidation, and light; Salvatore Cuschera contrasts the hardness of iron with formal tensions of balance and rupture; Riccardo De Marchi uses steel as a testing ground for geometries, resistances, and reflections; Izumi Ōki employs glass to open thresholds between visibility and transparency, fragility and monumentality.

The inclusion of the exhibition in the "In vetrina" program promoted by MuseoCity further amplifies the project’s public dimension. The presence of a work by Giacomo Benevelli, a key reference for Italian abstract sculpture in the late twentieth century, introduces a dialogue between contemporary research and this historical precedent, creating a temporal gap that highlights both continuities and discontinuities in the evolving relationship between form and material.

free entry.