Francesco Liggieri's 'Volevo fare l’astronauta' at Basement Project Room

Francesco Liggieri (Alessandria, 1981) presents his solo exhibition 'Volevo fare l’astronauta' at Basement Project Room in Fondi, Latina. The show features stylized human figures floating in serene, dreamlike atmospheres on abstract backgrounds. Liggieri signs each painting with the last line of a song from his Spotify playlist, creating a secondary exhibition of musical references from Red Hot Chili Peppers to Arctic Monkeys and The Police. Recurring motifs include leaping girls, smiling children, and colorful astronauts. The artist uses old photographs as inspiration, evoking a sense of lost dreams and childhood aspirations. Geometric shapes and straight lines structure the compositions, which Liggieri describes as connecting stars to generate geometries that form constellations. The exhibition explores themes of desire, hope, and the tension between being and wanting to be, echoing Milan Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'. Curated by Eleonora Milner, the show invites viewers to embrace existence with joyful, Dionysian energy.