Fondazione Giuliani Showcases Peter Marcasiano and Michele Tocca in 'A Sort of Song'

Fondazione Giuliani in Rome is presenting 'A Sort of Song,' a two-person exhibition featuring Peter Marcasiano and Michele Tocca. The show brings together two artists from different generations and artistic contexts who share a painting practice rooted in sustained attention to ordinary things. Through repetition, observation, and the rhythms of routine, the exhibition examines how painting can transform perception of the familiar, allowing everyday objects to acquire unexpected intensity. The title is drawn from William Carlos Williams's 1944 poem 'A Sort of a Song,' in which the American poet considers the relationship between language and the physical world. Williams's famous proposition 'no ideas but in things' is interpreted not as a rejection of ideas but as an insistence that meaning is embedded in material reality. The exhibition is on view at Fondazione Giuliani in Rome.