Walter Trecchi's "Metamorfosi" Explores Unstable Identity at Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea in Milan

Walter Trecchi returns to gallery exhibition after a decade with "Metamorfosi," curated by Emanuele Beluffi at Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea in Milan, running from September 29 to November 6, 2026. The show's central image is a granite hollow carved into an erratic boulder near the artist's studio, originally intended as a tomb but now collecting rainwater—a symbol of permanence giving way to transformation. Trecchi's new paintings focus on the moment a recognizable form ceases to coincide with itself, using water reflections that fragment and recompose images of trees. The project marks a shift from his earlier urban landscape series—Ex, Cantieri, Città sospese, Linee di fuga, and Equilibri—which examined architecture and peripheries through rigorous perspectives. Nature increasingly entered his work with Archi-Nature in Milan in 2012 and the 2015 solo show Naturae, leading to recent investigations of trees, roots, water, and reflections. In "Metamorfosi," equilibrium becomes deliberately unstable: identity appears as a recognizable but non-definitive structure shaped by events, emotions, and experiences. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by Arciduca Edizioni, with texts by Emanuele Beluffi, Walter Trecchi, and Federico Rui, to be presented at a dedicated event. The gallery is located at via di Porta Tenaglia 1/3 in Milan.