RISONANZE METALLICHE (METALLIC RESONANCES)

NADIA GALBIATI AND NATALY MAIER

Curated by Claudia Ponzi
Text by Cecilia Severini

From 31 March 2026 to 18 April 2026.

RISONANZE METALLICHE (METALLIC RESONANCES)

In how many ways can external reality be represented — that reality which at times feels so familiar to us and at others so foreign, enveloping us in a perpetual and silent cohesion?
Metallic Resonances brings together two distinct yet complementary poetic forces. Nadia Galbiati (Cernusco sul Naviglio, 1975), an artist with a solid professional trajectory, investigates urban space, emptiness, and the forms that define it through sculptures grounded in geometry and in dialogue with the surrounding environment. Nataly Maier (Munich, 1957), an artist with a rich and multifaceted career, marked by numerous national and international exhibitions, explores colour and the perception of phenomenal experience in contrast with abstraction through a philosophical approach and the experimentation of a wide range of materials.
The works in dialogue explore the perception of space and surrounding reality, starting from a poetics rooted in photography and then unfolding into two distinct visual languages.
For Galbiati, an interest in urban planning is translated into a sculptural narration of the city, deeply connected to Milanese architecture and to its spatial and natural context. The rigidity and meticulous articulation of geometric forms are set against sudden flashes of blue sky. Her research arises from an investigation into the relationship between fullness and emptiness, where the latter becomes matter, sky, and landscape, merging with the essential and inflexible geometry of architecture.
Maier’s practice, by contrast, is based on the exploration of the image in relation to reality, translated into powerful chromatic oppositions. Colour does not merely assume a central role, but becomes an experience, almost as if it possessed a sacred quality of its own: it is القوة and echo, synthesis and totality, stillness and vibration. The exhibition presents two of Nataly’s many artistic cycles, an artist who has always embraced change while maintaining a strong and coherent creative identity. The cycle inaugurated in 2006 explores aluminium treated with enamel paint, in contrast with monochrome egg tempera. Here, the investigation of reality becomes almost provocative, challenging the viewer to question the boundary between representation and the pure experience of colour. In the 2015 collage cycle, Maier does not construct figures or outlines: it is colour itself that is broken apart and reassembled, forming autonomous and pulsating fields.
The use of metallic materials, together with the practice of deconstruction and reassembly, also constitutes a shared principle in Nadia Galbiati’s work. The artist explores matter through bite etching on iron plates and their subsequent transformation into sculptures, fragmenting and reassembling the architecture under examination and giving rise to rational yet surprisingly light and dynamic forms, like a harmonious interlocking of geometry and suspension.
A subtle and invisible bond runs through these two poetics, so different and yet secretly akin. In both cases, colour and geometry, decomposition and recomposition, become instruments of inquiry and of poetic expression.

On Saturday, 18 April, from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM, the finissage of the exhibition Metallic Resonances by Nataly Maier and Nadia Galbiati will take place. The exhibition is curated by Claudia Ponzi, with critical text by Cecilia Severini.
During the finissage, starting at 6:00 PM, Filippo Sala will present his book Cantautori di Frontiera, published by Le Lettere. The author will accompany the presentation with a live musical-literary performance, weaving together words, reflections, and music.
From Lennon to Italian singer-songwriting: Battiato, Guccini, De André, and Zucchero, between music, poetry, and spirituality.
Live musical performance with Filippo Sala — voice and narration, Vincenzo Rucci — guitarist, Renato Gamba — guitar, and Andrea Rucci — digital drums.
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.