Mario Airò's Neolithic Dreamscape at Vistamarestudio

Mario Airò's first solo show at Vistamarestudio in Milan, titled "Il mondo dei fanciulli ridenti," presents a symbolic vision of contemporary society by invoking a return to the Neolithic as a Golden Age. The exhibition's centerpiece is an environmental installation featuring a green PVC floor, typical of sports fields, with a cut-out plan of the Stonehenge cursus. According to Neolithic culture, this monument traced the "ford" of a whirlwind, seen not as a calamity but as a good omen for fertility, as explained by an English archaeologist's essay that inspired Airò's title. In the gallery's basement, a second site-specific installation, "Incubation place #3," creates an almost lunar environment with germinating elements and sand mounds topped with colored honey spoons. Airò's work merges nature and culture, akin to a book whose pages give rise to sea snails.