Fabrizio Ajello's Poli-Media Installation at Villa Rospigliosi

Fabrizio Ajello (Palermo, 1973) presents 'Niente di grave', a poli-media installation in the limonaia of Villa Rospigliosi in Prato. The work spans three rooms, each engaging with the site's nature and temporality. Ajello explores dualities of creation/destruction, life/death, presence/absence, and appearance/disappearance. In the first room, wall images both welcome and repel, destined to be covered over time, allowing the space to revert to its original state. A drone in an intermediate zone observes and levitates, limited, watched by a human icon that subverts salvation. The third room features three suspended ladders referencing the Crucifixion, guarding an invisible treasure: a small drawing by the artist's father, his last work before death, which opens and closes the exhibition. Absence is a central motif—the father's absence as eternal return, the tangible absence throughout the installation. The portrait historically supplements the deceased; here, an image of Christ strengthens the art-life/death link. Villa Rospigliosi, an 18th-century villa outside Prato's historic center, hosts ChorAsis-LoSpaziodellaVisione and has been an exhibition space since 2019. Ajello's site-specific intervention incorporates physical and symbolic elements of the villa and Rospigliosi family—a fan, a wooden plank, ladders—showcasing his ability to integrate diverse stimuli into a unified project.