Luigi D'Eugenio's Invisible Art Takes Over Ordet's New Milan Space

Ordet's new Milan space at Via Filippino Lippi 4, inaugurated on February 19 with Cosima von Bonin, now hosts 'LGUDGN71R23D341C', a solo exhibition of Luigi D'Eugenio curated by Roberto Cuoghi. D'Eugenio is an artist who has worked in isolation for years in his 25-square-meter home-studio, with no external contacts, no curriculum, and no market interest. The exhibition, open until June 14, features paintings created between 2021 and 2025, selected without the artist's direct involvement. D'Eugenio's practice involves preparing his own colors, using scraps of old sheets sutured with water-soluble plastic film, and sourcing images from the internet—his only window to the world. Cuoghi notes that D'Eugenio could have sold the show multiple times but instead asked how to retrieve the paintings. The works depict scenes like a woman abandoned on a sofa, a deer wandering in a forest, and a half-smiling, half-sad face, all sharing a sense of slowness and resignation. The exhibition invites viewers to lose temporal and spatial awareness, immersed in pigment-laden, anguished canvases.