Nicolò Cecchella's Synesthetic Art at Artcurial Milan

Nicolò Cecchella (Reggio Emilia, 1985) presents 'La continuazione degli occhi' at Artcurial's Italian headquarters in Milan, curated by Andrea Tinterri and Luca Zuccala, running until February 2, 2024. The exhibition features sculpture, photography, video, and drawing, exploring visual perceptions of reality and how viewers' bodies relate to the transformative power of objects. Cecchella reconfigures reality by assimilating material pulsations—precious, ancient, organic, artificial—in a process involving objective and subjective time. The artist expands observation beyond the eyes to the surrounding environment, which becomes itself an eye and instrument of vision, incorporating bodies, their presence, and their interaction with places. The title reflects that beyond the gaze, everything is vision; senses blur and reveal hidden meanings through synesthetic short-circuit. Andrea Cortellessa's essay 'Eyes Wide Shut' in the exhibition catalog comments on the video 'Solo con occhi,' noting that the artist's eye is alive, and so is the viewer's. The catalog, printed in 100 copies, includes critical texts by Chiara Portesine, Victor I. Stoichita, Mauro Zanchi, and a conversation between the artist and Andrea Tinterri. The article is written by Caterina Angelucci.