Duet: Baruzzi and Trucco at Villa Croce, Genoa

Villa Croce in Genoa, a historic villa turned contemporary art museum with limited budget and unconventional management, hosts 'Duet,' an exhibition pairing artists Riccardo Baruzzi (born 1976, Lugo; lives in Bologna) and Alberto Trucco (born 1952, Rome; lives in Genoa). The show, curated by Federico Godino, leverages the villa's non-neutral, domestic character. Baruzzi's site-specific installation on the ground floor places small mechanical devices among 19th-century frescoes, creating playful sounds and a nostalgic, artificial domesticity. Trucco's works, illuminated by soft light, explore art's unspoken potential. The exhibition creates a dialogue between the two artists across generations and the villa's strongly characterized rooms, avoiding conventional contemporary art imagery in favor of an experiential narrative tied to memory and lost domesticity. Villa Croce has been managed since 2016 in association with a Master's program in Museum Management and recently appointed Carlo Antonelli, a journalist, as director.