23/09/2026
super exhibition curated by
Landscape is not merely a place. It is the result of an encounter between space, memory, and vision. Mount Amiata, with its geological history, its forests, mining areas, and the transformations that have shaped it over time, is a territory in which these elements continue to generate new possibilities of interpretation.
Where the Fire Sleeps takes shape from this condition and principle. The title evokes the mountain’s volcanic origins and the forces that remain hidden beneath the surface. It is not an image of the past, but a metaphor for transformation: an energy that continues to move through the territory and finds expression in artistic practices, which become generative instruments for new forms of expression.
The exhibition brings together artists working across painting, photography, light, sound, and video. The works do not seek to represent Mount Amiata; rather, they engage with it, offering personal interpretations that, in turn, become points of reflection and discussion.
Each element becomes an essential part of a research process that brings temporal and visionary layers to the fore. Alongside the physical dimension, a perceptual one emerges, in which the landscape opens itself to images belonging as much to lived experience as to the construction of vision.
Landscapes and Visions identifies the two directions at the heart of the exhibition. On the one hand, landscape, understood as an ensemble of forms, traces, and memories; on the other, vision, as the process through which artists transform observation into language. The exhibition unfolds between these two poles, with each work establishing a distinct relationship with the territory without ever exhausting its meaning.
The exhibition proposes an experience of passage, a new narrative.
The fire that gives the exhibition its title is therefore not an element, but a condition—one that continues to nourish the gaze and generate new forms.