Crystallized Exhibition at Vecchiato Art Gallery in Padua

The Crystallized exhibition at Vecchiato Art Gallery in Padua, curated by Alice Baldan, explores how thoughts and emotions can crystallize into permanent artworks. Inspired by Josepha Gasch Muche's Untitled, made from recycled phone screens and microscope slides, the show features a strong female presence in works by David Begbie, Fortuna, Toffoletti, Papas, and Donghong. It incorporates organic natural elements through crystalline structures by Affiliati, Marchese, Paglia, and ConTESSA, and a return to contemporary or recent past by Villa. The exhibition employs rhetorical figures like metonymy, synesthesia, and synecdoche to blur abstraction and concreteness, giving sight a tactile quality reminiscent of childhood imagination. The show reflects on the precariousness and need for a renewed worldview post-pandemic.