Building Gallery in Milan Hosts Six International Painters in Unconventional Show

Curator Demetrio Paparoni presents 'Sei artisti e la pittura' at Building Gallery in Milan, featuring 40 works by six international painters never before exhibited in Italy. The exhibition, titled 'The Wall,' plays on the concept of the wall as both a divider and a threshold, referencing the Renaissance idea of painting as a window onto the world. Artists include Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Nicola Samorì, Vibeke Slyngstad, Rafael Megall, Paola Angelini, and Justin Mortimer. Von Kaufmann explores the political relationship between man and nature with dark humor, using both brush and burin on wood. Samorì enlarges Baroque ceramics from memory and physically strips paint from canvases to create contemporary disturbances. Slyngstad reproduces landscapes with photographic precision, while Megall transforms still life into ornamental patterns reflecting post-Soviet Armenian identity. Angelini and Mortimer share autobiographical narratives: Mortimer draws from medical experiences, inserting patient monitoring graphs, while Angelini weaves symbols from art history and philosophy into mosaic-like works. The show challenges the figurative-abstract divide, echoing Arthur C. Danto's philosophy that art has moved beyond representation. Paparoni, who introduced Danto to Italy in 1992 and co-authored 'Art and Posthistory,' curates the exhibition as a meditation on painting's current relevance.