Paolo Parisi's 'The Weather was Mild on the Day of my Departure' at Building, Milan

Paolo Parisi's solo exhibition at Building in Milan presents works that attract the eye but resist interpretation through a mechanism of form and image obliteration. The show opens with abstract/geometric paintings where color layers simulate fabric texture, with the final layer occluding underlying vision. Sculptures resembling building models or an ideal city follow, alongside a video featuring a succession of photographs—daily visual notes offering access to the artist's direct experience. Many projected images are exhibition views or posters, with color patches partially obscuring vision, hinting at a critique of mass cultural industry. Upstairs, large hanging sheets juxtapose natural images with graphic motifs, again obliterating imagery. Wall pairs consist of a free, airy natural photo and a color touch that occludes the image itself. Other paintings simulate pixelation—our daily invisible horizon—with color stratification covering the pixelation, invoking rehumanization. The exhibition proposes an alternating path between manifest image and form and their disappearance, leaving ambiguous whether this tendency is beneficial, critical, or simply evocative.