Marcello Maloberti's 'Sbandata' at Galleria Raffaella Cortese in Milan

Marcello Maloberti (born 1966 in Codogno) presents 'Sbandata,' a solo exhibition at Galleria Raffaella Cortese in Milan, running through all three spaces of the gallery. The show, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, reopens the storage space that hosted a 2004 project, reconnecting past and present. Maloberti's work combines installation, collage, performance, and audio, including a looped recording of a guide from the Oratorio Suardi in Bergamo describing Lorenzo Lotto's fresco. The series 'Marmellate' at via Stradella 7 functions as a visual archive. At via Stradella 1, a frame from the performance 'Kolossal,' created two years ago for the Biennale of Pune, India, is presented for the first time as an oil painting on birch wood. The floor at via Stradella 4 is covered with cutouts of classical domes and ceilings, predominantly blue, and 16th-century frescoes by Veronese. A strobe-like trompe-l'œil titled 'Trionfo dell'Aurora' references Tiepolo's frescoes at Villa Baglioni in Mazzanzago (Padua), evoking ADHD-like digital browsing. Maloberti cuts images from art history manuals, reinterpreting them into a layered everyday imaginary. The exhibition explores fear of classical art, fetishism (influenced by Giulio Paolini), and a neorealist method, blending drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance into a contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk.