Design meets landscape in Rome group show at Contemporary Cluster

Curated by Giacomo Guidi, the group exhibition 'Particolare di Paesaggio' at Contemporary Cluster in Rome takes its title from Mario Schifano's 1973 work of the same name, which uses lines and colors to capture an emotional yet structured snapshot of landscape beyond visual primacy. The show explores how landscape can be defined today and what elements feel universally intimate and familiar. It moves from an underground mood to fantastical images on jackets and lab coats, with fluorescent and grayish tones. Flowers appear on paper with gilded hues and finely drawn contours. Jewelry, tapestries, and design objects dialogue together, opening the viewer's gaze onto a vast panorama from sea depths to eighteenth-century castle rooms. Upstairs, paintings and installations layer metropolitan and subterranean strata, architecturally portraying the city. Works combine sounds and colors to reconstruct a childhood and familiar scene with slides, trees, palms, and fireworks. Memories nestle there, vivid and bitter, like photographs framed by vaporous black tulle. The exhibition is part of Artribune's coverage. Valentina Muzi reported.