Francesco Ciavaglioli's 'Orders' at Museo Diocesano, Brescia

Francesco Ciavaglioli (Avezzano, 1983) presents 'Orders' at Museo Diocesano in Brescia, an exhibition exploring image reproducibility through the concept of the garden. The show gathers recent paintings where Ciavaglioli constructs natural landscapes using serial reproduction techniques, selecting preexisting images from medieval botanical codes, then duplicating and projecting them onto canvas. The resulting works are bidimensional, with repeated elements creating geometric correspondences. The installation features mural interventions evoking ancient frescoes, with paintings displayed on custom wooden shelves like botanical plates. Ciavaglioli's titles often pair 'klon' (Greek for sprout, also root of 'clone') with the plant name, referencing both natural reproduction and dystopian cloning. The exhibition includes 'Disorder', a book-herbarium showing compromised nature with traced features, created through a reverse process: hand-painted natural elements digitally reworked. 'Disorder' closes the show as a warning about the duality of nature and images—human control versus fear of wildness. The exhibition was held in 2021.