Luca Trevisani's 'Addaura' Exhibition at Pinksummer, Genoa

At Pinksummer gallery in Genoa, Luca Trevisani (born Verona, 1979) presents a show titled after the geographic coordinates of the Addaura caves and the gallery itself. The cave is central to large-scale wall works and installations. Trevisani focuses on mysterious Paleolithic rock engravings discovered in 1951-52 on Monte Pellegrino, north of Palermo. The site, now inaccessible, becomes 'a visit to a mystery, which as such is sacred.' He transfers his distillation of this 'primordial social garden'—featuring dancing figures—onto large sheets of paper using hybrid cyanotype prints colored with alchemical mixtures of wine, coffee, tea, and animal urine, circulating the images like postcards. 'I chose to interrogate and interview these ghosts by replicating them,' Trevisani says. A sound recording, based on Morse code translation of the Addaura coordinates, was recorded inside the cave, creating a linguistic bridge to revive the place.