Luigi Voltolina, Nello Studio, 1989, Oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm

The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa presents Luigi Voltolina. Epifanie, a monographic exhibition tracing over thirty years of the Venetian artist’s work. The project highlights a practice grounded in immediacy of gesture and a steady movement toward formal reduction. Since the 1990s Voltolina has focused on fragments of everyday life: moving figures, urban crossings, fleeting encounters. Images surface on the canvas as sudden apparitions, free from descriptive excess. The rapid, synthetic line does not define but suggests, leaving the viewer to complete what remains unresolved. Through a gradual thinning of color and subtraction of elements, the pictorial space becomes a suspended field where time appears to pause. Epiphany here is not a dramatic event but a quiet revelation, an instant that emerges and almost immediately tends toward disappearance. This delicate balance between presence and absence defines the artist’s language. Within the Venetian setting, with its shifting light and layered visual memory, this tension gains further resonance. The works engage the surrounding space without imposing themselves, relying instead on the lightness of gesture and minimal vibration of line. What emerges is a form of painting that does not narrate but occurs, in the brief span of an appearance.

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