Alice Cattaneo, Marco Andrea Magni. Un mondo tutto all’aperto

From January 15th to March 14th, 2026, BUILDING GALLERY presents the exhibition “Un mondo tutto all’aperto” by artists Alice Cattaneo and Marco Andrea Magni, curated by Giovanni Giacomo Paolin. The exhibition unfolds as a journey connecting the ground floor and first floor of the gallery, offering a bilateral dialogue between sculptures and installations, in which existing works and new productions intertwine. 

The title of the exhibition is a quote from a short story by Italo Calvino entitled “Dall’opaco”, contained in “La strada di San Giovanni”” (1990). In this “exercise in memory,” Calvino describes the places of his childhood as a world made up of broken and oblique lines, in which the horizon remains the only possible continuous straight line.

Un mondo tutto all’aperto has been constructed based on forms of coexistence between two artistic research projects and the space that hosts them, working in contact with a certain degree of opacity linked to mutual knowledge. This has also translated into specific exhibition design choices, whereby the BUILDING exhibition space features a number of fabric modules that can be interpreted as devices capable of altering the relationship with the exhibition environments. From a simple gesture, echoed in some of the works, a shared way of reinterpreting the gallery’s architecture was born: a structure that neither closes nor separates completely, but opens up new possibilities for orientation. A way of approaching, inviting passages, pauses, and dialogues, in which corners that draw the eye become instruments of relationship.