Mariateresa Sartori takes part in the sixteenth edition of Cyfest – International Media Art Festival with the video The Pathetics (2018), presented in the exhibition Archive of Feelings. A Journey, hosted at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City from September 4 to 22, 2025.

Curated by Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Alexandra Dementieva, Sergei Komarov, Lidiia Griaznova, and Viktoria Ilyushkina, the exhibition explores the connections between memory, emotion, and technology, bringing together international artists working in contemporary media art.

In The Pathetics, figures move like puppets, shifting from joy to despair, from fear to serenity, from aggression to desolation, without apparent reasons other than those internal impulses made manifest by the music. Driven by unconscious inner forces that determine dynamics, actions, and destinies, the characters repeat cycles with no beginning or end.

In Modena, at Arena Spazio Culturale, the exhibition “La diseducazione al reale” opens in collaboration with Galleria Michela Rizzo, featuring the artist Andrea Mastrovito and curator Marcella Manni. The exhibition invites viewers to “unlearn” through the diseducational function of art.

It is an opportunity to explore the limits and possibilities of knowledge, where the school experience becomes a creative laboratory and a space for interpretative freedom. Andrea Mastrovito will take part in the conversation “Crescere Consapevoli” on Saturday, September 20 at 11:00 a.m. at Arena Spazio Culturale, to delve into the themes of the exhibition and his approach to education and creativity.

Andrea Mastrovito has been selected as the winner of the competition launched by the Junta Constructora de la Sagrada Família to create a new sculpture of the Lamb of God, which will be placed at the center of the cross crowning the tower of Jesus Christ—the highest point of Antoni Gaudí’s iconic basilica. Alongside four other European artists—Edoardo Tresoldi, David Oliveira, Gonzalo Borondo, and Jordi Alcaraz—Mastrovito was invited to reimagine one of the most emblematic symbols from Gaudí’s original design.

His winning proposal, praised for its radiant transparency and expansive formal tension, merges spiritual depth with a contemporary aesthetic. Visible from the outside, the sculpture will become a defining element of the basilica’s final construction phase. This major recognition affirms Mastrovito’s position within the contemporary art landscape and contributes to a renewed dialogue around sacred art in the 21st century.

Francesco Jodice will take part in the 18th edition of the Rome Quadriennale, Fantastica, on view at Palazzo delle Esposizioni from October 2025 to January 2026. Selected by curator Emanuela Mazzonis di Pralafera, Jodice joins 54 contemporary Italian artists and will present his film Rivoluzioni.

Featuring 187 works—many conceived site-specifically—Fantastica traces 25 years of Italian art, highlighting its imaginative and evocative strength. The exhibition also serves as a tribute to the late Luca Beatrice, former president of the Quadriennale Foundation, whose curatorial vision shaped the entire project.

The sixth edition of Una Boccata d’Arte brings 20 artists to 20 villages across Italy, activating forgotten spaces and local histories through site-specific works. From June 28 to September 28, 2025, the project—conceived by Fondazione Elpis—invites artists to live and work in towns under 5,000 inhabitants, creating works that reflect on landscape, tradition, and community through contemporary languages.

Among the interventions, Giuseppe Abate in Altidona (Marche) stages a collective procession inspired by an old photograph of a now-lost sculpture: a rooster that once stood at the town’s entrance. His work revives a shared memory, turning it into a new ritual. Other projects explore environmental themes, rural identity, and vernacular knowledge—offering fresh perspectives on Italy’s lesser-known places and the stories they carry.

The Museo Casa de la Moneda hosts an exhibition that explores Antoni Muntadas’ research and experiences in China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. The show features works previously exhibited in these countries, along with new versions conceived from a contextualized perspective.

Travel has been a crucial element in Muntadas’ practice, serving as a catalyst for reflection and visual experimentation. In Sobre / About Asia, the artist delves into the contemporary meaning of the continent, focusing on the contrasts and protocols that shape its cultural and ethnic traditions. Through travels, studies, and projects developed between 2013 and 2024, Muntadas has built a critical and insightful vision of Asia and its representation.

On the occasion of the Fieste de Patrie dal Friûl, the exhibition Stralûs. 1985–2025 Arte in Friuli / Art in Friûl opens on April 4 at Palazzo Ragazzoni in Sacile. Conceived as a journey through the Friulian art scene of the past forty years, the show is curated by Magalì Cappellaro and Alberto Vidissoni from the University of Udine. It features works by eight artists, including Ludovico Bomben, who explore the relationship between art and territory, highlighting changes, reflections, and experimentation. The initiative is the result of a collaboration between the Municipality of Sacile, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the University of Udine, and ARLeF.

An installation that invites the public to reflect on the limits and transformations of shared spaces. In a context of growing privatization and surveillance, the artist intervenes in the Área de Convivência at Sesc Pompeia to question urban transformations and the increasingly limited access to collective spaces.

Curated by Diego Matos, the exhibition features a series of elements distributed throughout the iconic areas of the venue, encouraging visitors to become active participants in the experience. It sparks reflections on citizenship, urban planning, and collective engagement—offering a unique opportunity to explore the complex dynamics of contemporary urban life.

The Italian Cultural Institute of New York, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art, presents the exhibition Dialogues Between Italy and America, open to the public until July 28, 2025. The exhibition brings together, for the first time in New York, three significant works by Jannis Kounellis, Maria Lai, and Lucio Pozzi.

Curated by Paola Mura and David Ebony, the show is part of a broader initiative to promote post-war and contemporary Italian art overseas.

Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, New York, presents a major exhibition of Lucio Pozzi's work, which will highlight more than 30 works that encapsulate many of the artist's major and continuing interests.

Lucio Pozzi: qui dentro / in here
curated by David Ebony, in collaboration with Paola Mura, Artistic Director of Magazzino Italian Art

Magazzino Italian Art
March 7-June 23, 2025
Cold Spring, New York