Maria Kreyn's Milan debut juxtaposes contemporary seascapes with Turner's Alpine watercolor

American artist Maria Kreyn presents her first Milan solo exhibition at Robilant+Voena, featuring new paintings alongside J.M.W. Turner's 1842–43 watercolor The Splügen Pass. Kreyn's atmospheric seascapes merge figuration with abstract geometries, informed by her mathematics and philosophy studies at the University of Chicago. The exhibition creates a transhistorical dialogue between Kreyn's contemporary practice and Turner's Romantic landscape approach. Her works incorporate ovoid, parabolic, and linear markings, drawing from neuroscience, mythology, and art history references. Turner's watercolor was described by John Ruskin as 'the best Swiss landscape yet painted by man.' Kreyn explains her paintings visualize portals, geometries, and eggs as symbols of entering new realities, with the title Continuum evoking regeneration and historical dialogue. The exhibition includes a fully illustrated digital catalogue with an essay by former University of Bologna rector Professor Ivano Dionigi. It runs until May 8, 2026, exploring how landscapes connect people across time through sublime emotion.