PALAZZOIRREALE – Canelli
18 MAY 2025 – 28 SEPTEMBER 2025
PALAZZOIRREALE – Canelli
18 MAY 2025 – 28 SEPTEMBER 2025
“Giuseppe Gabellone” is the second exhibition event of thePALAZZOIRREALE contemporary art center in Canelli, in Monferrato, born in 2024 from an idea by Polina Bosca and wanted by the Bosca family at the helm of the homonymous sparkling wine house. Open to the public from 18 May to 28 September 2025, the exhibition – curated by Giorgio Galotti, with which the PALAZZOIRREALE project continues, under the creative responsibility of Diana Berti – presents a corpus of nine works, including sculptures and photographs, as well as a new site-specific production, spread throughout the company spaces and in the ancient “Cattedrali Sotterranee” Patrimonio cellars World of Humanity for UNESCO.
With the exhibition by Giuseppe Gabellone, PALAZZOIRREALE once again offers the public a cultural experience that connects contemporary languages with the places of the best Italian wine production, custodians of ancient traditions. The space program includes the involvement of key figures in contemporary art and favors experimental languages, to underline Bosca’s innate propensity for innovation, with the aim of composing a collection over time that becomes part of the heritage of Monferrato.
The intervention imagined by Giuseppe Gabellone specifically for the occasion is a visual story in which each trace, scattered throughout the rooms, aims at the sole objective of identifying a horizon, understood as a line, destination or mysterious apparition, which can involve the public on an experiential level and continue to reveal the historic production areas of the Bosca sparkling wine house.
The fulcrum of the exhibition is the unpublished work “Tramonto scioglie”, from 2025, imagined for the large room of the company’s “production line”: a motorized projector that moves a yellow square made of light and redefines the space, entering into dialogue with the architecture of the environments. The work dictates the rhythm, tension and colors of the other works in the exhibition, to offer the visitor a landscape rich in intellectual and sensorial stimuli.
The path starts from the photograph “Testa capovolta” (2024), positioned at the entrance to welcome visitors and introduce them to a parallel narrative universe, explores the industrial areas through a story punctuated by bas-reliefs, a photograph arranged on the floor and a series of tin castings on the wall made for the occasion. Beyond the glass is the first of the two light sculptures “Untitled” (2018), which outlines a landscape that extends beyond the exhibition space, capable of encouraging the pupils to adapt to the slow pulsation of the work composed of a steel structure on which a succession of bright light bulbs follow one another.
The exhibition ends in the ancient cellars, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here is the second “Untitled”, also from 2018: imagined as a point of arrival, it is an oversized lantern that coexists with the darkness and organic smells of the underground galleries where the grapes rest and ferment. The nature of the work increases the perception and depth of the space, not by underlining its features but by manifesting itself as an autonomous presence that inhabits the place, lives its history and amplifies its mystery.
