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Diego Gualandris Turns a Sofa into a Car in Rome Exhibition

exhibition · 2026-04-27

Diego Gualandris (Bergamo, 1993) presents 'Escape from Regina Coeli' at Ada Project in Rome. The exhibition features a battered sofa transformed into a motorized car, surrounded by large canvases depicting dreamlike scenes with ambiguous figures, talking parrots, and cabaret-like butcher shops. The show explores an alternate cityscape, with paintings acting as portals to vertiginous dimensions. Accompanying text by Basile Dinbergs sets the scene: a rainy night in Trastevere, a manhole cover rising, and two figures emerging before disappearing. The works include '11' (2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 x 3 cm). The exhibition is hosted by Ada Project in Rome.

Key facts

  • Diego Gualandris is born in 1993 in Bergamo.
  • The exhibition is titled 'Escape from Regina Coeli'.
  • The exhibition is held at Ada Project in Rome.
  • A battered sofa is transformed into a motorized car.
  • The show includes large canvases with dreamlike imagery.
  • Basile Dinbergs wrote the accompanying text.
  • The text describes a rainy night in Trastevere.
  • One painting is '11' (2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 200 x 3 cm).

Entities

Artists

  • Diego Gualandris
  • Basile Dinbergs

Institutions

  • Ada Project

Locations

  • Rome
  • Bergamo
  • Trastevere

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